Apostle Art Home Staging & Design Blog: January 2011

Winter hurts!!! I mean literally. I was going to open the door to my van yesterday which was encased in ice and as I grabbed the handle ...without my gloves on....and felt a sharp jab to my forefinger. Ouch! It actually drew blood! That is some nasty ice...but I have to say....it was extremely beautiful to look at...from the inside looking out anyway. I did venture out though...camera in hand...I just couldn't help myself.

Now with the forcast calling for temperatures BELOW ZERO this week, Vegas couldn't come at a better time! We have been hammered with snow and ice all week and now arctic temperatures...

Goodbye TUNDRA...SUNSHINE HERE I COME!!!

This is my driveway that was so perfectly shoveled before we got dumped on 2 more times this week!!

Now it is frozen until who knows when...May probably!!!

This last one sums it up nicely!!!

I just can't help it...I am a positive person...hopelessly positive if that makes sense!

It really doesn't matter what the situation is, where I find myself in life, big things, little things there is always

something gained,

something learned, something shared,

something given.

Those who are hopelessly negative may not understand the hopelessly positive and may at times think our peaceful reactions to life's troubles are "unnatural". Well, in a way, that's true. My peace does not come from the natural world but from above. My faith and my trust in my Heavenly Father's ways are the key to my positivity, my peace, my hope and my life!

As many of you know, my recent trip to the Uk provided plenty of opportunities for making lemonade. We frequented several different hospitals while there which was not fun by any means, yet beautiful on many levels. My in-laws live on the outskirts of the city of leeds. Typically, when we go into town we are viewing everything from ground level. This time we got to climb the great heights of the hospital's many floors.

Luckily...she had a room with a view..

The zoom on my new camera is amazing! If you look back at the first shot you can see how far away I really was from this mosque!

Again...go back and see if you can spot this building in the first shot...zoom,zoom,zoom!!!

Taking her home...

Have camera, will travel....and make lemonade!!

We got a bit of the white stuff yesterday...about 6-8 inches. It was the light and fluffy kind...not great for snowballs but perfect for shoveling...especially when your driveway is over 70 feet long like mine!!!

So my husband sets out, shovel in hand...he is on a mission. I come out to help...I am on a mission too...

...to take photos of the deer tracks on the lawn! Just kidding...I took the photos AFTER I helped shovel...LOL!!

So he starts blasting through, throwing snow here, throwing it there, he wants to get out!

What do I do?

I methodically choose a starting point, develop a plan of action and proceed to remove the white stuff in a highly organized fashion. Line by line, row by row, making sure it is cleared right up to the rocks that line the driveway forming a wall on either side. I go back, retrace my steps, making sure the surface is level and clean and even everywhere.

My husband...he's been gone an hour already!

Staging runs through my veins...I cant switch it off... it resides in the very fiber of my being!

...and not a snowflake out of place!