Lamb's Ear In December

A Friend's Ozark Lake Lodge

 A disclaimer before you start looking at the pics.

I forgot my good camera, and took these not-so-great

pics with my (cheap) phone.  Sigh.

 I helped her find some of her vintage items,

and sold her some.  The mirror was one of the

items I sold her.  So cute with the shiplap.

 We scouted this porcupine quill (I kid you not!)

lamp for her at an antiques shop.  One of my favorite things.

 I am definitely stealing the idea of the 

divided farmhouse sink from Ikea.

 Loved everything above the toilet.

Including the classy sign about what not to put in the toilet.

 Handy dispensers in Shower.

Great, since the lodge will be listed on AirBNB in February.

 I enjoyed the touches of color...

 especially the red trunk that she got here locally.

 Love the gameboard wall.

I sold her the politically incorrect "Wahoo" gameboard.

The immense farm table in front of the lake view windows?

Awesome!

And of course, my husband's sign was icing on the cake.

Sign For A Lake House

This is my husband distressing a sign he had painted for some friends of ours.

They just finished refurbishing a lake house in the Ozarks.

And had the idea of him creating a sign that would go

above the windows that view towards the lake.

Here he is with some of the family getting ready to put it in place.

You can tell it was a monster.

 But so worth the effort!

Stay tuned for more pics of how cute the lake house turned out.

Building A Guest Cottage

 There may not have been much going on here on the blog

this past month, but plenty of plans were being made.

This is an area of our property that we call "the meadow".

And sometime in the last few weeks we started picturing 

a little guest house growing up in the meadow.

Here is my husband cutting down some of the little

trees that were living in the same space that the little house

will be taking up.  (Notice the shorts?  I took this pic Dec 24!)

Primarily it will be an AirBNB.

Also available if my son from Cali comes home.

Available to any missionaries.

And hosting a family reunion next May.

This is our contractor Shawn (also wearing shorts!) who says

 he hopes to be finished by the end of February!

My New Year's vow is to document the progress on the blog.

We will be trying to save money by repurposing, reusing and

burning up Facebook Marketplace.