So here's the inside as I promised. California Redwood... amazing. Don't mind the stuff or my daughter posing :) We move in Monday. If you can help we'd love to have you. We start Monday morning at our old house in Webb City at 8am. I don't know exactly when we'll be at the new house, but I'd say probably around lunch time. Any help is much appreciated!
If you'd like to view more, bigger photos, you can look at them HERE.
I do NOT claim to be a great painter, but I do enjoy painting. If you don't have kids bumping into you ever five seconds, it can be quite relaxing. When Mystery (our church) renovated the building a couple years ago, we decided to put up a canvas in each of the ladies bathrooms (2). I already had a color that I liked in latex paint, so I decided to just use it instead of acrylic or oil. BAD IDEA. It was VERY thin... not so good. But at the time, we just needed to get something on the wall, so I just left it. I recently took them down to redo them. I had intended to do them both the same, but I thought of something one off that I wanted to try. And I'm proud to say that even tho they are not professional, or perfect, (and I'm sure I didn't use the "right" brushes) that I like them :) I would hang them in MY house, but alas, they will serve as bathroom art for Mystery.
The black and white one, I totally ripped off a favorite fabric print. The tree is an allyson original. any similarity to anything else is a coincidence.
So the deed is done. TWICE. Lets just hope SECOND time's a charm this time. God has been so gracious to us. From just the right timing to getting the house for much less than we intended, his hand has been upon this, undeniably. So with out further ado, here she is: (scroll down, then come back up... apparently, blogger is flawed and changes the font size after photos to something super tiny... dumb. Or you can go to my PICASA to see bigger photos since blogger won't let me do bigger ones.)
That's it? Yes, its just a sweet late 50's ranch with a walk out basement. Nothing too fantastical. But that's what I like... that's what I REALLY like :) Photos of the inside to come... in a couple weeks. I've struggled with guilt for the past few days about getting something I've wanted for so long (as this has been going on since August '10)... it almost seems like if I like something so much, I shouldn't have it. But there have been so many things that kept pointing us back to this place and after much prayer and deliberation, we just went for it.
After this contract was done though, I just couldn't help feeling guilty... Saturday night as I lay in bed, I started thinking about being in the house and started to really feel guilty... like I shouldn't have something nice. And I started to worry that all my life lived in that house would be a life plagued with guilt. And then the Holy Spirit reminded me... "no you will live a life of gratitude and glory to God." After that I just couldn't stop saying, "Thank you Jesus! Thank you Jesus!" Not necessarily that I got what I wanted, but that he would bless me with a home that will be used to glorify him and just so HAPPENS to be a house that I find artful :) But of course, my crazy brain started in again Sunday morning and during communion time, I asked Jesus for a peace about all of this and the Holy Spirit again reminded me, "I made you the way I made you for a reason. I drew you to this house for a reason. I'm putting you here for a reason. Trust me." As if to say: I didn't put you here for YOU silly... you're just blessed it turned out that way :)
Lesson learned: God is not like Lucille Bluth, aka "Gangy" from Arrested Development. He does not get off on being with-holding.
And I CANNOT WAIT to see what Jesus does. Winning!
