Photo Friday #6 Home Tour 1

Whenever I see home tours on blogs (which I love, especially tiny houses, and minimalist houses), it always makes me look around my house and think "jeez, what do these people do? my place is a mess!" Is it because I live with 2 males? I don't know. Then I thought hm, maybe the pictures make the houses look cleaner than they are, and maybe if I take pictures of my house, it will look nice and clean and fresh (wishful thinking?)
So, without picking up first, I took some pictures and thought I would give you an "authentic" tour of some of my house.

A little background- we live in a carriage house- about 900 sq feet. The living space is upstairs, and underneath are 4 "unfinished" carriage bays- which house my husband's studio, a laundry room, and a powder room, and junk.

This is what you see when you open the door at the top of the steps. Straight ahead looks into the family room, or "the big room" as we call it here, since it is the biggest room in the house. My son fills this room with toys.

If you look right, you see where we hang coats and things. And further right, are the 2 bedrooms and bathroom, which we will not be visiting today.

 

 

To the right is an "L" shaped dining room and living room with a galley kitchen.

At the far right you can see a little table that is a catch-all for crap stuff like mail, etc.

And if we keep walking we can see the kitchen:

Hello kitchen! Nothing to shout about, but it gets the job done.

 

Standing by the table you see the small living room area, that's our "creative space"- easel, bookcase, piano, etc.

 

A rope rocker and a baby seat, getting ready for the new baby due in (gasp) 10 days....

The view when sitting in the rocker- you can see over the by the table was a crafty thing I made that I was proud of- a hanging clothesline to display my son's artwork. :)

It's funny, looking at pictures actually helps me see the areas I need to declutter (what's with all the bags laying on the floor? oh right, baby gifts. and that random fishnet??)

Stay tuned for the rest..

Do you like looking at other people's home tours? 

Katie

Photo Friday #5 Morning Visitor

Once again, Friday came and went without my "photo friday". How the time gets away from me!

The quality of the photo is bad, I know. But I was having trouble getting a clear shot of this visitor I had sitting in my backyard. I took it from inside, these buddies will charge at you and I wasn't going to take any chances. Check out those horns.

We frequently get groups of 10 + deer in our backyard, but usually they are women and children. I guess this fellow just needed to take a break.

Have a great weekend!

Katie

Photo Friday #4 Autumn Sunrise

The numbering of photo posts seemed really boring so I thought I'd give this one a name. And, I am so clever I am calling it "Autumn Sunrise". I do realize it is Saturday, I had a busy day at work and then took my son to celebrate his school's 50th birthday, I was so tired I got in bed at about 8 last night. These last couple weeks of pregnancy have been a doozy. I'm quite moody :)
I woke up to see the sunrise ( I don't sleep for very long these days ), brewed my coveted pumpkin coffee, and headed out to the deck to take a picture and enjoy the view.

We have a second story deck so that's why you see the tree tops. The sky started out an orange color and then turned to this pinkish purple. It is very pretty, but I couldn't stay out for long because the morning temperature was 43 * F. Too chilly for my tastes.

The sunrise is a really great time to pause, take a deep breath, and clear your head for the new day. I try to acknowledge my negative feelings, and then let them go to make space for a new day. I tend to hang out to thoughts and stew, so this is a good way to "clean house" for the new day.

Have a great weekend!

Katie

Photo Friday #3

Ah, once again the week has gotten away from me. Between working a shift at the CSA farm we belong to, (splitting garlic, my large pregnant self is no good for farm work), and a church volunteer function, I have tuckered myself out. Being 8 months pregnant will do that to you :)

The weather here has been rain, rain, and more rain. So I thought I'd pull out a picture (s) from vacation. Last summer we went to Cape Cod, and rode out on the ferry boat to Martha's Vineyard (which I think Joy @ JoyfullyGreen went on a similar vacation this summer..)  It was one place I went snap happy with my camera. The beauty of Cape Cod; one minute you are at an ocean beach, and 10 minutes away you can go to a beautiful lake beach. Not to mention you have great hiking. As a lover of the outdoors, I thoroughly enjoyed myself (other than the car ride to get there!) These pictures were taken on the ferry ride leaving Cape Cod.

Have a great weekend!

Katie

Photo Friday #2

I was hoping to have another post out before Photo Friday, but unfortunately I have spent the week battling a nasty cold. Cold + 34 weeks pregnant = blah. So, my free time was spent resting, not blog post writing. (It beats when I had whooping cough (pertussis) during my second trimester, which is a story for another day).

The picture this week wasn't taken by me, but it is a photo of my family for anyone out there for a burning desire to know what we look like.

I am the lone female, Mike (who gave me permission to use his name) my husband, and the boy. So, there we are. This was taken at my son's preschool graduation, which was June 2012. We are obviously due for an updated portrait, but I figure we might as well wait until the new little guy joins the family.

Have a great weekend everybody!!

Katie

Photo Friday

Hello all!

Happy Friday! I have to confess, I am a horrible picture-taker. No, I don't take bad pictures. I just don't take any pictures at all.

The last birthday album I made for my son was for his 1rst birthday. He's 7. (I do have some pictures on the computer..)

And my blogger profile picture? I think that's about 5 years old, conveniently the mug is blocking half of my face. (I am not a fan of having my picture taken.) M and I like to say we "live the moments" rather than "record them". ;)

I don't have aspirations to become a photographer, or even a scrapbooker but, I am challenging myself to take at least one photo a week, and post it here. Because there is some really great stuff out there to take pictures of.

There's my clothesline, sporting some second hand pocket diapers I picked up for our future baby (due in about a month). I thought the little cloth diapers looked so cute hanging on the line! ( I have to say, despite what the er, hold, I find cloth diapers to be extremely adorable.)

This is the view from my deck. Not to shabby if you discount the ramshackle fence. Ah well, were not all perfect :)

Have a wonderful weekend!

Katie