My furniture setup

Honey asked if I would post pictures of my furniture setup so here they are.

Here is an upclose picture of my bench that I purchased from Overstock.com

Below is a shot so you can see the picture that I hung above it.

Here is a shot that I took at an angle to you can see how the furniture is arranged. The bench is perpendicular to the couch.
And here is a closeup shot of the couch that I purchased from IKEA

This vase is in the corner where the bench and the sofa meet. I got it from Cato Fashions for $20!

I plan to put a nice area rug in front of the couch and I picked out a chair and ottoman that I will add as soon as I can pay cash for them. :-)

What's the Best Advice You've Been Given?

Anne over at His Grace To Me wrote a post about great advice she had been given. At the end of the post, she asked us about the best advice we have been given.

One of the best pieces of advice I have been given came from someone who said "Find out who you are and love and embrace that person".

If you don't love yourself, it will be hard for others to love you.

Another good piece of advice that I have been given is "When you change, so does everyone around you". I have learned that I cannot change other people, but I can certainly change my behavior which then forces them to change the way that they deal with me. Pretty clever if you ask me. :-)

So what is the best piece of advice that you have been given?

The Swallows

We have Swallows building a nest near our front door. This is the third year that they have come. The first year, one set of swallows built a nest in the right hand corner. The next year, they returned and another family built a nest in the left hand corner. At the end of the second season, after all the babies left the nest, I knocked the next down. It had been a great experience, but I was tired of cleaning up bird poop and fearing being attacked every time I opened my front door; poor UPS man!

This year the birds have come back again and are working heartily on rebuilding the nest in the right hand corner.

Here is a pictureof how much they have accomplished:

And here is a picture of what it looked like before (this is the other corner that I knocked down)

The Latest On Our Garden

Our first effort at gardening didn't go so well, so we are going to try again. I was working on the plan for our garden and here is what I came up with for now. I am going to go and buy some more peat pellets so we can get started on our seeds again. I'm also going to buy a spray bottle to keep them watered this time. :-) We'll see how it goes.

Red Romaine Lettuce	Green Romaine Lettuce	American Spinach	Eggplant
Roma Tomato	Summer Squash	Watermelon	Onion
Sugar Snap Pea	Cucumber	x	x
x	x	x	x

I'm thinking about planting some bulbs in the other empty spaces. Tulilps and Calla Lilies are my favorite.

Works For Me Wednesday

I created an evening routine for myself based on the advise of Flylady. One thing that works well for me is to add plugging up my cell phone every night before I go to bed. That way, by the morning I have a full charge and I am ready to go when I leave the house.

It works for me! For more tips that work, visit Shannon at Rocks in My Dryer.