Beca over @
http://rubylanes.blogspot.com/ has given me my very first blog award. I found Beca soon after I started blogging and loved the fact that she too ended each post with "Blessings" as I do. Thank you Beca for this award and I will do my best to follow the criteria for this award.
First and foremost I have to share 10 honest and interesting things about myself. So here goes...
1. I have to be honest... this is going to be hard... 10 interesting things about me....
2. I am a justice of the peace in a small county in Nebraska.
3. My home is small but big in love.
4. My Mom always told me "It's not what you don't have.. but what you do have and do with it" and I have always lived my life with this motto in mind.
5. I too was saved by grace and am blessed to be married to an awesome man of God.
6. I drive a red Chevy Suburban and am happiest when it's filled with kids on our way to a basketball/baseball/football/volleyball game.
7. I live 2 1/2 hours away from a Walmart.. Yes people I said 2 1/2 HOURS....
8. My kitchen always has at least one dirty dish in the sink... I hate doing dishes.
9. I love turning trash to treasure but it you have visited this blog you already know that.
10. My ultimate goal in life is to raise 3 Godly children.
Well that didn't hurt too bad. Not that it was interesting but it sure made me put my thinking cap on. Now comes the fun part..passing the award on to some of my favorite people. There is a part of me ( a big part of me to be honest) that doesn't feel "good" enough for this part b/c these people so know what they are doing where I do not. But I do want to thank those that have given me great ideas, encouragement and positive vibes... so here goes.
2. Girly Stuff @
http://girlystuffin.blogspot.com/ (Just visit her site and you will see why I like this gal. She just finished the most awesome kitchen island eva.)
Thanks again Becca for this award and I graciously accept and hope those I nominated will as well.
Blessings
Roxanne
I wanted to wish everyone a very Happy Easter and it is my prayer that we all really reflect on this season/day. Through blogland I have met a very dear lady and her post today really moved me. She had told me a couple of days ago that she would be posting her "story" today and I have waited patiently to hear it. So if you don't follow Laura's blog, you can find her story @ http://decortoadore.blogspot.com/2009/04/heart-decorated-for-easter.html. 
My parents live in one of the most beautiful peaceful places in the world. When life becomes "full" I ache to run away to this place. Of course it is where I grew up and my childhood was the greatest so why would it not be where I would choose to retrieve to?
My husband found this garage while working one day and the owner told him he could have it. So my husband and dad decided to turn it into a cabin. They moved it 50 miles and then we (we would actually be my parents:')) were lucky enough to purchase some land that had our old country school that had been turned into a cabin so moms dream of a potting shed came true.( You can read more about the cabin/country school at http://roxannephilben.blogspot.com/2008/12/our-home-away-from-home.html)
She is an awesome gardener and I will share more pics with you in time. She even has a little "setting room" inside as well.
Thanks for stopping by.
Kari and Kijsa over @ http://kariandkijsa.blogspot.com/ are having another party! I really don't think that I qualify for "Doors to Adore" but I sure have an interesting door to share. We are in the middle of a bathroom remodel. This is the door leading into our bathroom. I found this half moon a couple of years ago on the Nebraska Junk Jaunt and have been waiting to find the perfect place for it. Well... Here it is. Please smile and now I return to your regular scheduled program of "Adorable Doors". 
This past September while on the Nebraska Junk Jaunt I had the privilege of running into Margo from Margo's Junk Journal. My mom and I walked out of a garage sale and there was Margo taking pictures of the back of our pickup. (It was on the ridiculous side people. We were over flowing with treasures.) We struck up a conversation, she introduced herself and it was Margo that introduced me to the world of blogging. Oh Margo I thank you so much. Needless to say I spent the next half hour calling friends telling them that I had just met a "Professional Junk Guru" .
All that said, here is my trash to treasure.
The tall pedestal bowl was made from a candle holder and wooden bowl.
This of course is an old light cover. $1 baby!!
Before pictures are suppose to come first.. oops.
Again thanks for stopping by and head on over to Diane at A Picture is worth a Thousand words @ http://diane1876.blogspot.com/ and also Kjisa and and Kari have a link as well. Visit them over @ http://kariandkijsa.blogspot.com/ plus make your way over to http://www.reinventedkb.com/ to see a post with the same theory as the above.
Our main bathroom somehow developed a leak under the shower about two months ago and so we had no choice but to do some serious rip up and rip out and redo. 
My husband is one of those guys that when he puts his mind to it he can do it. 
We will share the before and afters soon my friends.. very soon.
