Been busy!

I'm sorry I haven't posted in so long, but there's a lot going on here at PB&J Cottage!

Before I get into that, I want to say thank you so much for all your sweet birthday wishes for Annie. It was an emotional day for me and Rich, since she's getting so grownup, but we had a wonderful dinner out that night as a family :)

So what has been going on here?? Well, the clean up after the floors being redone as well as putting everything back is taking longer than expected and we've started yet another project that has to be done before Christmas......

Yep! The fireplace. We took a good look at it one night, because our curiosity has been getting the best of us to see what was under all the paint. It turns out that the brick above the mantel really wasn't brick at all, but some sort of weird wallpaper. Underneath is a little bit of mold, so it's a good thing we're pulling it off!

Then I started chipping at the paint that was falling off the mantel.....
and we found really smooth brick and intricately carved brick, so we're taking it all off.
Oh and that's not all! We knew that the tile in the middle wasn't original and with great trepidation we decided to take one off....
Sure enough, it didn't belong!
Here's what it looked like a few days ago and we're still working at it.

As soon as we're finished I'll be sure and show you what all our hard work looks like.

In fact I'll be posting pictures of all our progress very soon, but I'm taking a small blogging break until next week. I'll let you know more about the break when I come back ;)

Before I end this post though, I just want to say how sorry I am for all those affected by the tragedy at Fort Hood yesterday. God Bless the soldiers, their families stationed there and all the victims of this horrific event.

Be back soon......

hugs and love,

rue