Missing You...

i have so much to share...

but...sigh...i have so much to do...

this next weekend is a busy one for the shop...

i promise next week i will make it up to you all for my lack of blogging/inspiration/prairie life adventures...

hope things are well with you all...

i miss you...

Chloe the Cruiser...

yikes...

really since sunday?!?!...

i'm ashamed...

i really have been doing productive things...

nothing like downing whole bags of potato chips and gallons of dr. pepper...

nope nothing like that...potato chips and dr. pepper are so not in this prairie girl's vocabulary...

really...

sigh...

anyways...

hello girls!!...

have you all had a fabulous week?!?!...

i have some before and after shots of some projects that i've been doing lately...{coming soon...}

yes projects...

the husband informed me you are suppose to work on one at a time and maybe have a list of 2 or 3 tops...

not a list of 200...

really...200...i think he is being a little "dramaggot" {term brought to you by 5 year old prairie boy...hhhmmm....}

so the projects have consisted of making an absolute mess of our house...and also the shop...

you know when i talked about maybe doing this to my floors...

well there is no maybe about it...it has begun...

the paint colors have been picked for the floors and walls...

can't wait to share...

i promise soon....

i've also promised chloe the cruiser that pretty soon she won't be neglected anymore...

isn't she a beaut?!?

i've really enjoyed having her here on the prairie...

it amazes me how something as simple as a bicycle can bring back such feelings of pure joy and the innocence of childhood...

happy summer my friends!

Happy Father's Day...

happy father's day....

to the man who carries my world on his shoulder's...

we *love* you!

Farm Finds...

new faded farm finds arrived on the prairie...

i do believe i have a new color obsession...

btw how many obsessions/disorders can one girl have?!?...

hhmmm...

anyways...

purple, grey and green...

new *love* of this prairie girl...

check out the shop and you will know what i mean...

{bliss}

i hope the start to your weekend is going well...

any fun plans for you prairie girls??...

any new obsessions??...

no just me?!?

sigh...

B.O.D....

anyone sick of the whole cow thing yet?

i thought that i've found all there is...

i promised myself that i wouldn't bring anything else with a cow on it home...

BUT....

look what i've found...

on burlap...

i know...

*bliss*...

that's not all either...

be still my prairie heart...

also on burlap...

*bliss*

right now they are displayed in the shop...not priced...

i know shameful...

the husband likes to remind me that the point of having a shop is to sell stuff...

hhhmmm...

evidently he has been bitten by the cow bug yet...

i think he gets enough of them during the day...

then to have to come home to see them on the walls...

it could be worse right?!?!...

hello....

*sigh*...

i'm afraid i've even started begging people to be on the lookout for cows...

my mom and stepdad recently went back to scotland to visit...

guess what i asked them to look for...

yep, bovines....

they did not disappoint...

this print from 1881 came to live on the prairie...

i know...

i do believe i'm obsessed...

b.o.d.

bovine obsessed disorder...

see there is a name for it...

now if only there was a cure...

hhhmmm....

Blog Interrupted...

blog interrupted do to:

~ learning to ride a bike again...{scary}...

~ realizing i'm not much of a pool mom...

~ story hours which are not quiet, peaceful moments...

~ play dates which are just as much for the girls as for moms...

~ kitten {namely belle who now has become betty} + cow milk = messes this prairie girl just can't take...

~ the smell of rain on the dry parched prairie...

~ cattle moving to summer range...

~ explaining to my daughter that no she does not have "nutses" like her brothers...!?!?!....{i know}...she needs a sister...

~ summer + wild prairie children = no time for blogging...{sigh}

New Additions...

i have to be honest...

this weekend i was feeling a little sorry for myself...

you see, this prairie girl really, really wanted to attend the farm chicks show...

sigh...

i wanted to meet so many of the talented women i have "met" here in blogland...

oh.well. they promised lots of pictures...

so definitely next year right girls?!?

i needed a little pick me up...

so clancey brought home this from the field...

meet bell...

how can that adorable little face not brighten anyone's spirits?!?!

i don't even like cats that much...but i do believe things are about to change :0)

i also added some new additions here

more new things to arrive within the week...

planning a little trip to try and make up for missing an amazing event...{again}...sigh...

White Copper?

hello girls...

do you ever get ideas in your head and that is all you can think {obsess} about?

i recently stopped by lori's place when she featured a friend's home....

this friend lives in a barn...

i know *divine*...

i live in a barn too but not as clean and oh.my.goodness.fabulousness...

mine actually smells like a barn so you know i may be the lucky one out of the two...

anyways...

lori's friend recenly put in 8" wide plank flooring using plywood?!?! i know....

then she painted it white! girls it looks amazing...i never knew plywood could look so chic...

lori shares the ins and outs of installing which got the old brain jump started...

should i try it??

i have a lot a furniture like this and i'm not sure the white floors would mesh...

i know i could paint the furniture white also but what if i change my mind about the whole white thing in a few years, the floors can stay here when {if} my husband ever decides to build me my dream home, but the furniture would have to go with us...

i also have quite a few copper pieces in my home and still *drool* over the look of copper, would white look okay with it??

what do you think girls?? should i try it? maybe not pure white in color but maybe more a greyish, off white color??

hhmmmm...be sure to check out lori's post, the house really is fabulous...and clean...sigh...*dream*...