I just recently repainted our daughter's room...

I wanted something more colorful and bright.

I also wanted to use my vintage chenille bedspread, and antique quilt.

The paint color is Celestial Blue by Valspar...it's a nice bluish purple.

Love it!

Great color to grow with her.

I'm not finished with decorating, but it's heading in the right direction.

Our baby girl will be 3 in June...

Stay tuned for more on her room. 

Blessings,

Our Thrifty Nest of 7

We're still here.

I've been taking a break from blogging, and keep hoping to return to it.

Trying to find time, any time, to blog these days is a little more difficult.

We're adjusting to being a family of 7... :)

We were blessed with Asher Luke on December 14 at 9:54 a.m.

And we're all just smitten with him!

I'll have some new projects to share with you on our house progress, and am excited about them.

Let's see if I can get back to blogging...shall we?!  :)

For the love of Faith, Family, and Home,

Our Thrifty Nest

Sneak peek...nursery.

We've chosen the name ASHER for our newest son due in Dec.

It's a biblical name meaning: Blessed, Happy.

Here's just a peek at his nursery coming along.

I decided to do more of neutral nursery.  This being our 4th son, we've done all the boy themes... ;)

Like...airplanes, jungle animals, and sports.

So this time I wanted something different and softer.

Once it's finished I'll give the details of paint color, and how inexpensive this nursery really was.  :)

I love the fabric I used to make the little valance.  

30 weeks along now, and so the count down begins.

For the love of Faith, Family, and Home,

Thrifty nest

Homegrown Teacher's Gift

It was the first day of school for three of our children...

We're so blessed and thankful that we have the opportunity to send them to a small Christian school.

The grades are combined, and the teacher's are excellent.  The accountability they feel in helping us parents in guiding  our children's spiritual growth is such a blessing!
Both of my children's teacher's will be implementing many of the concepts in the book...Shepherding A Child's Heart, by Tedd Trip.

I'm so inspired by this, that I'll be reading the book as well.  I've heard such wonderful things about it.

For a first day Teacher's Gift this is what they received. :)

There is only two gifts, because two of my children are in the same class.

We grew everything here on our acreage.

Basil (still drying), half dozen eggs (from our chickens), fridge pickles, and lots of homegrown tomatoes... :)

On the bag I wrote Isaiah 54:13.

"And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children."

Have a very wonderful school year.

For the love of Faith, Family, and Home,
Thrifty momma

I'm linking up with these fabulous blogs...

Family Bulletin Board

School will be starting back, and after school activities too...

However you choose to school your child keeping them organized, and displaying their hard work is something all mother's want to do.

I got my inspiration from this how to by Woman's Day

Family Bulletin Board.

I just followed the instructions they gave and....here is our Family Bulletin Board.  :)

It displays...thank you notes, invitations, pictures, achievements, good work, report cards, pictures, good test grades, and anything else we want. 

Our children attend a small Christian School, and sometimes there are articles in the newspaper about the school, and what the children are doing.  Those articles go up here, too.

 I found the letters at Hobby Lobby and spray painted them white.  The material I used is everyone's favorite...a painter's drop cloth.  ;)

Just add some white ribbon, and there you have it.

I just recently cleared ours off getting ready for the new year.

I added this cute calendar from Wal-Mart.  I have school events, games, practices, and birthday's written on here all for me to try and keep up with.  ;)

 This project really is inexpensive to make, and easy...

I'm sure you and your family would enjoy one as much as we do!

For the love of Faith, Family, and Home,

Thrifty momma

I'm linking up to these great blogs...(sometimes the blog buttons are only showing up as Photobucket, please click on if your looking for your link.)

French Country Cottage...Feathered Nest Friday

Of course...makes perfect sense??

In our home we keep butter literally in a butter dish, because we like to always have some soft to use.

We also use a toaster a good bit...

My family loves waffles, toast, and anything else you can stick in a toaster. :)

Well this morning it would appear we didn't have enough soft butter to use for waffles...

Naturally our middle son got a new stick out of the fridge and decided to place it on the top of the toaster while he was making his waffles...

Of course...this makes perfect sense!  Kill two birds with one stone...

I'll make the butter soft, while making my waffles.  haha!

What he didn't realize was the big mess he was making.  

Yep...nice. ha!  It's all over the very bottom of the toaster as well.

Let's just add this to the list of messes to clean...shall we?  :)

For the love of Faith, Family, and Home

Thrifty momma