I am glad yall enjoyed seeing the honeymoon cottage in the previous post. and yes, i do have some interior pictures somewhere i will try to scan and share sometime down the road…it will be funny to do see the evolution of my decorating..i remember using lots of fruit to decorate that year and learning two things…first, that fresh fruit is an expensive way to decorate when you are in graduate school and two, a rotten apple will fall off of a topiary form in a short timespan and just might roll under the sofa and really start to stink by Christmas..yuck!

yesterday’s post and the burlap post the day before also have me thinking about another subject..perfection and blogging..or image and blogging..what we put out there..i’ve actually been thinking about this a long time and have discussed with several people. i’ve never felt i could quite do this complex topic justice so i have avoided but i have invited a guest blogger to share something she wrote about it (and other things) soon and i think you will find it interesting.

the bottom line, we can selectively posts photos and snippets of our lives and work on blogs and create an image whether we realize it or not, i believe it is rarely on purpose and this “perception” often may have to do with the reader and their circumstances and thus becomes something the blogger has NO control over. but i still want to be careful to be very honest…as a blogger i take this seriously..i love people even more than fabric and pretty rooms…at the same time, there are private things about finances, relationships, and other matters that i really dont want to share with the entire WWW..so it is difficult to be really transparent yet prudent… it is also difficult to be positive but not fake…”authentic” but not negative or whiney. so usually i just post lots of pictures!;;;

but today no pictures and it feels really weird for me..like naked.

so while i posted a picture of that darling house yesterday i also have to tell you a little more about that time period in our lives..honestly that was a very hard year of marriage, poor Chuck may or may not have heard some yelling and crying on occasion while he was out watering the ferns.. and the rent may or may not have been a little above our means and honestly we might not do that again AND well life is just not perfect, i am not perfect (not that you think i am but go with me here) and there are just always layers, even to blog posts…just wanted to share a little more..i felt a tad fake just showing the pictures of the cute white house and going on about the marble shower; just a little too perfect of a package.

and in a Christmas decorating update (it i “tweeted” i could just twitter this but i dont so i will share here..did i even use those words correctly??) i am really enjoying just using what i have..tonight i half made a linen stocking on the kitchen floor (same color but less mess than the burlap) ..crudely sewn, simple and cute…funny how when you lay things down and get over obsessing, you can finally just enjoy a little!