English Ivy Lace Door Panel

 Good, Good Monday Morning to you! I hope everyone is well and happy! First off I want to thank everyone for all your sweet and wonderful comments on our Daughters Wedding to Seth. Bernadette read your comments and was smiling from ear to ear!

I am a bit behind on my visits to you, but I do have a really good excuse, I opened on ETSY Shop! and it took me for ever! I mean for ever! I thought I would never get done. I named the shop Designs by Auntie Em. I am still making things and adding as I complete the items. I listed the ETSY on my side bar, so if you'd like to take a peek I would love for you to.
I know many of you have shops on ETSY how is it going for you?

Now on to my post about "Lace"
A few posts back I shared our laundry room with you and the door that leads to it. During remolding Gary and I choose a glass door, that at time seemed to be the right choice, until I ran into it (I'm a bit clumsy LOL)
Smack into the glass, I was not happy...

 So to remedy my clumsiness and for my love of lace, Gary put up a lace door panel for me and I love it!! It almost matches my lace window curtains. I tried to find and order a door panel to match them, but no such luck.
I did find the English Ivy pattern from Heritage Lace and its a pretty darn close match.
The light changes many times during the day so the light shining through the lace gives the lace different appearances throughout the day.

 A before shot without lace curtain

 And now with lace curtain

The lace looks light and airy in this picture with all the light

 A look from inside the laundry room

 A few close ups of the pretty English Ivy and Lace door panel

 Even the trim is pretty I think. I have always been found of lace and so this curtain makes my heart sing and the best thing is, I will not run smack into the door again!!! LOL

 Shiloh how did you show up on this post, you just never know where this little Aussie is going to show up. We love our baby!

Have a wonderful, wonderful week!

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I See You !

  Happy Monday! I thought for this weeks post I would share with you a bit of fun we are having with Shiloh. He was born December 31, 2012, Gary and I brought Shiloh home to live with us at 8 weeks  old from the breeder, he is a Blue Merle Miniature Australian Shepherd who is commonly referred to as an "Aussie" .

 Our little guy is now 16.5 months old and weights in at 17.3 pounds. Full of playfulness and love! His favorite thing to do is play hide and seek with his busy bone.
The other day Gary had gone out to run a few errands while I stayed home to finish up on some sewing.
 Shiloh was quite and usually will be by my feet while I am sewing. I wandered out of the sewing room calling his name "Shiloh my little one....Where are you" he was so quiet, I looked everywhere for him, then I spotted him there he was, all I could see was his little face!
"there you are I called out" I ran to grab my camera to try and capture the moment.

 Ahaaa those sweet blue eyes of his!

 Peek a boo I see you Shiloh..hehehe

 And there he was hiding behind the buffet looking out the window, he was waiting for Gary to come back. Shiloh stayed there until Gary returned.

 So this is how he dose it, jumps onto the ottoman and unto to window sil behind the buffett.

 Busted little one, I see you and your nose prints all over the window!

 And there he waits ever so patiently.

 Half cat I say...hehehe

 We have lots of nick names for Shiloh we also call him "Shi-Shi" The Shi-Shi is so loyal  we waits and watches at the window every time Gary goes out.

 He hears the car and jumps down and runs to the garage door. If he had a tail it would be waging! Shiloh will bend his body in half when he gets excited.

 And Daddy's home! we have one very happy "Aussie"

Never thought I could love another dog as much as I did our last sweet doggie  who passed away several years ago, but this little one has stolen my heart. He gives so much love and all he wants to do is play and give you big wet doggie kisses. Shiloh is also the protector and will definitely let us know when anyone is at the door.

On another note to my Husband, Dad, brother, sister, Nephew, cousin, Father n law, Uncle and friends,  today I want to thank you and all our Vets and Military Men and Woman severing now and have served  our country, So that we can live freely and feel safe.
God Bless you all....Happy Memorial Day

The Living Room

 Happy Monday! I hope you all had a marvelous Mother's Day weekend.
This week I'll take you into our living room, so welcome one and all its rather cozy so everyone squeeze in.
Gary and I were able to use some of our furniture from our other home, not to sure if it really works or not but, for now we are living with what we have.
We were thinking maybe a small sectional but Gary loves his recliner. I have seen sofa's with a recliner built in, they are pretty cool.

 I changed out the slip over on my sofa from the blue jean denim fabric to the off white duck cotton. It's more summery and I do love the lighter fabric and airy feel of the room with this slip cover.

The pink open tulips on the counter were a Mother's day gift. How I adore tulips.

 The Kincaid hangs nicely on this wall beside the sofa.

 The beautiful red tulips were a gift from my Mom and Dad..I love the color, I only wish we could have tulips year round, I will have to enjoy every minute of these charming delicate flowers.
Oh and just look who's in the picture again...yep i'ts Shiloh ( he follows me everywhere I go )

 Here's a before photo looking towards the front door.

 And now....

Larger view of the living room, It's very simple but comfortable for Gary and me.

 Before photo of the fireplace wall, the previous homeowners had their TV in the corner. Ours did not fit and Gary wanted to add surround sound.

 We removed the stone veneer fireplace and replaced it with the same brick we used in the kitchen and dinning room. Knocked out the wall and corner cabinet and extended the wall into the hallway, also creating a archway.

 The new ceiling fan being installed, this is the coolest fan it so quite and cools down the room quickly. It reminds Gary of airplane propeller.

 So this is how the TV was mounted above the fireplace, we had all the electrical installed before the brick was laid.

 Installation of the gas fireplace, we had to have a gas line run.

 Aw a nice and toasty warm fireplace. Very economical. The fireplace is an Enviro.

 And Gary helping with the installation of the TV.  As you can see in this photo the floors had just been laid. By the way Gary installed the wrong TV bracket, silly guy! but he did not want to  redo it, it's holding just fine. We get a chuckle out of it.

 We have TV, Gary is in his glory. Do you see who I see again?

 Looking in from the front door. Hi Shiloh, I see you baby....

 We are loving all the brick, it just seems so right for us.

 The original artwork  of the cottage homes, was painted by no other than Dwayne Hickman (Dobie Gillis).
 We met him and his wife about six years ago at an art gallery. What a nice man.

 Really! Shiloh again....

 So I have to tell you a little story about the curtains. I will make it short, anyway Gary and went to JC Penny to purchase our roman shades because after looking at so many fabrics I fell in  love with the fabric red floral toile. We only ordered the shades for the front windows.
While out and about one day we stopped at one of my favorite fabric and rug stores and low and behold guess what we found? The same fabric as the roman shades!!!!!
I was floored to say the least so I bought enough to make the curtains for the french doors.  I lined the curtains due to the strong sun that hits mid day.

The picture composed by Dwayne Hickman is called 'The Cottage'  This is Clint Eastwood's property near Carmel.

 Before photo of slider door, now we have a french door

 I am surrounded by brick and I am one happy girl.

 Another before, the door you see leads to the laundry room and power room. I will be sharing this room with you next week.

 View into the dinning room

 The red chest is a buffet.

 I love all the detail it has.

 Look who thinks hes a kitty cat! Shiloh has taken to sitting on the ottoman and cat walking on the windowsill to look outside.

Or maybe he just wants to stop and smell the flowers.

Have a sweet week and may each day bring a smile.

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