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Ok so I'm gonna be brutally honest with you all today. I do not like our house! It's old, the upstairs smells and is falling apart, it is too small, its totally outdated, spiders and large ugly beatles love to hang out in our house, the water is really hard, although it does come with a washing machine, there is no dryer (there isnt even room for one!), did I mention that the upstairs is unuseable except for the bathroom, and the room off of it. The bathroom use to have moth balls, our house is in the middle of the mennonite community so we are the object of curiosity for some ppl as they drive by reeeeeeally slowly. When we moved in we knew this would only be temporary but we didn't know how long temporary would be. 

Having said all that, I want to share some things I am learning while living at this house. There have been days I just wanna scream, and leave this house behind forever, and of course there are days where I can handle it and it's actually not that bad!yesterday was one of those days. I organized some surfaces and even made this coke bottle decor. 

Maybe it helped because it was raining all day, 

and the husband was home! 

RABBIT TRAIL HERE, sorry. Anyhoo, the other day when I was having a rather hard day after some bad news, I decided to come up with a list of things that I was grateful for in this rat hole. Here it is in no perticular order.

1. It's a roof over our head

2. The bathroom is upstairs (which gives me a work out several times a day)

3. The rent is cheep 

4. It has a wash line out side

5. It has a big yard

6. It has a rhubarb plant so I can have rhubarb to my hearts content!

7. No carpet! 

8. It's close to our friends

Ok it may sound a little cheesy but it helps (some days) to think about these things that make life a little easier and morebearable. I guess God has a reason for having us here longer than we want to be. I choose to believe that he is holding us and has a better plan than we have.

A huge thanks to my husband for buying me a new camera! More picture posts to come!

Blessings!

Karen E.

Peacock inspiration

Wow, I can't believe today is Friday!!! Where has my week gone?! I was going through my blogs I follow when I saw the weekly title of Conspicuous Style's blog called "50 favorites for Friday". I mentally freaked out, and thought, what in the world, its Friday?! So at this moment I have resigned my self to the fact that it is indeed Friday.

Do you ever create blog posts in your head or even Facebook updates? I do. For blogs, at least parts, startings or at least come up with the idea. They sound great in my head, but for the most part they never make it to the blog. Tisk, tisk.

There is this amazing picture I took the other week while we were at a wild life park with my BIL and SIL. 

I am absolutely in love with the colors! It being spring, most of the makes we're in full glory whenever any female was around, and I mean full glory (wink, wink)! I was amazed at the brilliance of the colors, and how the viberant blue would show a shimmer of bright green. 

If you've been on pinterest at all, you've probably seen all the peacock themed designs for Rooms and clothing.

But I can't resist showing you some of them.

Source: design-seeds.com via Karen on Pinterest

Source: polyvore.com via Karen on Pinterest

Source: cococakecupcakes.blogspot.com via Emma on Pinterest

Source: overstock.com via Brittany on Pinterest

Source: posheventplanning.com via Grace L. on Pinterest

Source: Uploaded by user via Ashley on Pinterest

Source: google.com via Stacy on Pinterest

Source: 2.bp.blogspot.com via Crystal on Pinterest

Source: media-cache6.pinterest.com via Kalina on

Well anyway, you get the idea. The females were gorgeous too, but I couldn't get a really good picture that would do it justice, and google didn't have a good one either. So if you want to know what they look like maybe you can look it up somewhere.

I better get going on things I need to do yet for the weekend.

Blessings! 

Karen E.

The great move

Wow a lot has changed since I last posted! I disappeared for my blog page for a while because I felt like I didn't have a lot to say and I find it hard to do posts without pictures. One other reason I felt held back from blogging is because as a home renter and not a home owner, I feel limited in decorating a house in my style when it is not my own, and I don't know how long we will be there. We have been trying to buy a house for the past two years and it has never worked out. 

Ok now onto other things. Like I said at the beginning, a lot has changed! Well for one thing, after over two years of trying we are now expecting our second child! 

On top of that we have made a huge leap in fulfilling a dream of ours, and we have moved to Nova scotia from Ontario.

Grrrr! The picture isn't clear, but you get the idea of how far it is.

We love it here!

You have got to see the houses out here! They are colorful, some are new and some are old and well taken care of!

I have a lot more on my mind but I guess I will have to save it for the next time.

Blessings!

Karen E.