this precious life.

one morning ellyn and i went to the cape charles coffee shop a few blocks over to have breakfast. ellyn ordered a chai tea latte while i ordered their specialty drink-- a cafe cape charles. it was ginormous! but super yummy too:) after a filling breakfast, we walked around town a bit and couldn't resist snapping some images near the crape myrtle trees which are in immense abundance on the eastern shore!

One of the huge blessings of our current house is having 3 1/2 baths. The house we lived in previously had 1 1/2 baths for *everyone* to use {imagine Sunday morning showers!} until we added another one the year before we moved. So moving here and 6 of us girls having our own spacious bathroom to share was/is a huge deal!  It's rather sad that our bathroom is better decorated and put together than my bedroom though. Sometimes I feel like I'd rather work on projects or edit in there... but no worries- I don't.  Anyway, I thought now was as good a time as any to give a quick tour of the girls bathroom since the decor is always evolving and never really "complete". At one time {like 5 years ago} I may have had "before" pictures of this bathroom... but I have no idea where they are now. Just picture yellow walls and Winnie the Pooh border. Cute but not for us.  Deciding on decor that 6 girls would like posed a difficulty when we first set out. But ...

It all started with a JoAnn's gift card {complements of Micah} which had $8 something on it.  Or maybe it began before that... but we'll start there. Elisabeth and I were on a girls date one morning & I said, "why don't we stop and see if I can use that giftcard." {"If I can"?!! Of course I could. JoAnn's is dangerous!!} So we went in, browsing the fabrics first, while I thought over projects I wanted to try and what materials I was needing. I landed on one project that I was hoping to make using grey lace. I'd looked many places for grey lace but just couldn't seem to find it anywhere. Maybe JoAnn's would carry some. Thus, we headed to the trimmings aisle. No grey lace. :( But mercy! What a marvelous assortment of other frippery!! Somehow in all my trips to that store, I'd completely overlooked that section! I had to limit myself to just that $8 or I'd buy the whole aisle so I chose a yard of this, a yard of that... 2 feet o...