I am so blessed to be able to stay home with Jack and spend most of my day with him. I thank God daily for the opportunity. I also thank Him for the direction he gave me fourteen years ago, when I started college and struggled with my decision about a major, to go ahead with music. It has allowed me to have experiences that enhance teaching privately from home, which is a great part-time job that I love. When we were looking at houses last year, I prayed for a small space that could be my "studio." God did abundantly more than I could have asked for, or imagined. The layout of our house is perfect for piano/flute lessons. As you walk in the front door, their is a formal living room to the left and a small bathroom to the right. The living room is my lesson room. Students can come to lessons and only be in the front part of our house. Jack and Craig or grandparents who help with Jack, can be in the back in the family room/kitchen or basement in the toy room. It is great set up! I love it.
When we moved in to our first home, I had it painted and decorated in a couple weeks. It was much smaller, I was a school teacher and it was summer time, and I didn't have a 3-year-old. All that to say, we've lived here 8 months and I still don't have it all painted and the main floor is the only one decorated. This house is bigger and there's always the money thing too. I try to decorate as inexpensively as possible by buying used furniture and painting it, watching the Hobby Lobby ad for 50% off items, or duplicating and making my own accessories. It takes a long time. Usually when I have the time to work on big projects, it's after Jack is in bed and then I'm tired too, and don't get a lot accomplished. I know exactly what I want to do in each room. Since I can see each one in my head, but look at the bare walls each day, I get frustrated. I'm working on patience. I almost have the music room done, so that's the room for today's tour. :)








The room is almost complete. I'm hoping to have everything in place in the next couple weeks. Then I can move on to painting walls that haven't been painted yet.
Sara,
ReplyDeleteI love what you've done!!! You are decorating so well! I know what you mean having no time to do it. I still have some art work around here that is lying against the wall waiting to be hung. I'd love to accompany you sometime on your trips to Hobby Lobby!
gosh! i just realized you had a different blog address! got it off my sister's blog. i haven't been following for quite some time. i've got some catching up to do! LOVE LOVE LOVE this wall!!
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