Greatest of intentions ...

I had ... to put the rest of the photos up of Terri's trip .... and then time escaped me ... once again .... but here's how the rest of the week played out ...

As you all know, once you start redecorating a house, it never stops where you thought it would ... it's like a big vine, it just keeps growing and getting bigger and bigger ... what started as the corner of the living room, managed to creep through the entire house. It became one big work in progress through the entire week

The individual photo frames all over the den became a wall display ...

Making space for the rest of the room to be decorated with this very cool collection of ceramic pieces ... these are just the candle holders .... you've really got to see the rest of the pieces to truly appreciate the entire collection ...

Toward the end of the week, we managed to put the finishing touches on the living room ....

Then it was into the master bedroom, we added this gorgeous beaded trim to the bottom of the drapes and liked it so much .... we got out distress inks, re-inkers and perfect pearls and went to work on the plain off white lamp shades ....

I've always loved my house, but ever since we moved into it 5 years ago, I've always wanted to add all the special little touches that we accomplished this week .... now, its perfect!! It truly was a special project, shared by special friends!!

But wait ... we weren't done ..... still had to finish up the alphabet canvases .... LOVE how these turned out!!!

And our last adventure was the Controlled Burn class at Frenzy Stamper with Julie Haymaker. If you've never experienced one of Julie's classes, you really should sign up for the next one ... she's an awesome teacher with some very cool and unique projects.

And we finished with a big high 5 ... for a class project well done and a week full of fun!!