Chrissy's Photo A Day

This concludes six years of photo blogging my life! Dinner tonight with friends at Maestro's then dessert at Mom's. It's bee...

Today Root and Jes went on a mushroom hunting expedition while I contemplated making gumbo for dinner. They brought back a couple finds ...

Today we started off with a sad farewell to Aza, making the long trek back to Virginia. Later in the morning, the rest of us made a trip...

We went for a walk to the arboretum this morning. This is the park where Dan and I first decided to get married. It's a special place ...

The survivors. We had an open house this afternoon and friends stopped by including our dear friend Tannen Baum who is also a thyroid can...

Jes cooked dinner tonight... Shepherd's Pie mmmm She gave Aza a spice and herb lesson. Aza was guessing the spice by smell and they ...

  Christmas Day 2012 With our 8 foot tree surrounded by gifts, we started with a French Toast Breakfast. Frisbee is not feeling well....

Kitten Lilly rests her head on part of an afghan I'm making for Root. This evening Jes arrived and we had Christmas Eve dinner at ou...

We went for a great walk this morning in the park just down the street. Really lovely. Then Aza and I went shopping and out to lunc...

Aza is here! She drove 11.5 hours and made it in time for dinner. She brought her kitten Lilly, here perched on the couch with Squirt,...

Started this morning with a working frenzy again. Painted the laundry doors poorly (lots of brush marks) and unpacked nick nack boxe...

Today I obsessed over this corner bench. At 9am I determined to sand the top until no speck of remnant paint remained, and then stai...

Rodrigue is in the house! Hoffman is over the fire place! Nana's mirror and crystal lamps are on the buffet! The tile is grou...

Scarf for someone special... Pillow for someone special… Leg warmers for someone special… Today my MIL left for MKE and we kept wo...

This means we are home. The chicken chandelier has traveled with us from Virginia to Kentucky to Alabama and where the chickens roost, w...

Unpacking continues. I went to church this morning with my MIL and it was comforting. This evening we had dinner with my mother and fri...

Today my big task was cleaning out the attic so we could take my trunk of childhood memorabilia and other things up there. I had to w...

We moved today! Two truck loads of furniture plus a couple van loads and many car loads. We have just begun to unpack what was put int...

My dear friend "Lips" gave us a ton of wrought iron hardware we could use if we wanted to. I finished painting all the cabinets ...

  My sweet Jes got her radiation pill today. Iodine 131. She got about 75 millicuries which is a lower dose than normal. Her scans last we...

  Dan has been hard a work laying the cork floor. Here is it on it's way to being finished. See the green cement beforehand? I painte...

Kitchen is coming together. Start of a new week- I had lunch with colleagues Lyric and Octave today after working all morning at the house...

The Jade Rise and Fall Light Made in France The piece that started it all... I love it.

We hung the chandelier today. It's made by Visual Comfort, the same company that made the chandelier we had in Lexington.  I think I...

Still wet floors with their second coat of polyurethane today. One more coat tomorrow then a painting extravaganza weekend. Worked on ...

The hardwood is being refinished today, tomorrow, and Friday. I won't be able to work on the house so hope I get a lot of tasks done a...

Today I painted the fireplace trim. Wish I had a mantle. Hint hint... would make a great Christmas gift! The transom windows are on the...