Comfort Gray... Sherwin Williams

This has been my bedroom color for 5 months.

It looked so elegant when we looked at the home.

Her furniture was huge and darling but this color has really worn on all our nerves.

It was really dark , olive green color.

And this was in the middle of the day before we painted it.

It took 2 coats of primer to cover it, I felt so tall with that long paint brush

This is just a peak at my new room.

Dusty says its green, Denae says its blue and I love it.

It is Comfort Gray by Sherwin Williams

I think it will be an easy color to match things with because it really is a soft neutral.


I know I have been reading too many blogs.

I told the guy that he should check out some blogs because it is all over.

So if The Nester, Susie Harris at Bienvenue
or Carrie at Buzzings of a Queen Been gets a phone call from Sherwin Williams

tell them I sent You :)

SMS Fluffy Coconut Cake with Passion Fruit Filling

This weeks Sweet Melissa recipe was this delicious coconut cake with Passion fruit filling and was chosen by Karen of Karen's Cookies, Cakes and More.

Have I told you how much I love coconut!!!

I really liked this recipe and will make it again.I did half the recipe for the cake and it was still perfect.It was a yellow cake mix with no coconut and had egg whites folded in to the batter.The fruit filling was made of a passion fruit and the frosting was to die for. It had 1/2 cup of sweetened cream of coconut, cream cheese, confectioners sugar, butter and vanilla. The coconut flakes were then sprinkled on to the sides and because I knew my kids didn't like coconut, I only sprinkled coconut on half and they all loved it.

There was leftover icing and so I kept it and used it for bagels , good idea my oldest daughter thought.

I was really busy this weekend and couldn't post my cake that I made last Wednesday

because of this

band....

and my daughter had her first cheer competetion.




Then my other daughter hurt her foot and took up a good deal of Sunday.
Anyway, I really wanted to post how much I loved this.

Yard work

Today was one of my favorite days.

My husband and I have been wanting to put in a flower bed to the very

 back of our property all summer but knew the best time would be fall

then we could put in trees and shrubs.

This is the 70ft x 15 ft area that we worked on today






   

There were the overgrown tree and shrubs that we moved to the back yard
There were two sets of shrubs in this space but you couldn't see what was behind.

Both of us worked the tiller but my husband did most of the work , it was hard.

  







Awe so much better you can actually see our house.

    


And you can see the others in the back corner on the left.





I can say that I am so tired I can't move but shhhh don't tell my husband.
He will say this was your idea.



Pictures are getting bigger

I am playing with the settings on my blog and thought I would show some pictures of my girls!

                                                                Darci plays the flute



                                                               DeAnn plays the Clarinette





Denae is a cheerleader 

However they are wearing shorts because there are 48 of them for Jr. High Cheer 

Finally!

Thank you for so many suggestions about my curtains,

I think, I have finally made a decision.

We , well my whole family, decided that we really liked the curtains from Pier One in the dining area but we also really loved the Lowe's curtains so....we kept both of them.

We put the Lowe's curtains in the breakfast room and everyone loved them.

They even had a valance and the tones really match the back splash

Now I can move on to other things.

You may be thinking what did you do with those other curtains

that you spent 3 weeks making?
Well right now they are nicely tucked away and if I change my mind I will use them.

My youngest daughter said , I hate to say I like these more because you worked so hard on those others, I told her it was OK.