returning goods: i'm back!!!!

whew! wasn't summer vacation great?
hahaha...i know, i know, summer has been over for like, ever!
i have a few friends that keep reminding me....
"elisabeth, summer's over,
update the blog, please!"
thank you friends.
you know who you are.
it shows me you like it here.
and that you care.
and that makes me happy.

i'm not really sure why it has taken me so long to get back here.
but i have a few ideas...

my favorite blogs are ones that feature diy projects and pictures of the blogger's home.
and are cute.
and that's really what i want my blog to be.
but my blog isn't one of those.
yet.

and the projects just weren't happening.

well, some of them happened, but i kept feeling like the room had to be just perfect
before i could post the "after" pictures.

i have a tiny little piece of me that's a perfectionist.
(thank goodness it's not a big piece of me because i don't know how perfectionists get anything done! but boy oh boy, when they do get things done, it is really really amazing. i know, because i am related to some perfectionists and they are the most talented people i know!)
i have a little bit of "if i can't do it perfectly, i won't do it at all" in me.
so blog posts
take me forever.
get the photos right,
change the font,
edit five million times,
make sure spelling and grammar is perfect,
or as perfect as it can be in the middle of the night.

but i am changing my attitude.
because i have missed the goods.
so, i will figure out how to make a cute header on picasa.
i will do more projects and take lots of pictures
and share them with you.
but the pictures may or may not get edited
and they may or may not be in focus.
i will write.
and not edit and re-edit
and not go crazy trying to form perfect sentences.
or change the font to anything other than the default on blogger.
i am going to try and post more often
but with fewer words.
but there may be more misspelled words.
if i misspell a word, you will still come here, right?
because i am a really bad speller.
i recently found my CAT test scores from elementary school.
yeeeeeah, not such a high score in the "spelling" category.
but that is why we have spell check, right?

so, my apologies for my absence.
mom, especially to you.
for i am certain
that you have checked this blog
every day
for the past
6 months.
you love me.
and my horrible spelling.

i am so very excited about the projects i am working on right now.
too excited.
i laid in bed the other night from 11:30-2:00AM.
i could not turn my creative brain off.
laid there and designed and redesigned the playroom.

which is the room i'm working on right now.

(i know, i know, you are thinking, "uh, elisabeth, what the heck happened to the dining room? and all that crappy stuff you bought for really cheap at the thrift store that you promised would be fabulous? and didn't you post on facebook that you did a bunch of stuff to your kitchen?")

it's coming, it's coming. i have one more thing to do in the dining room
and then i will share.
lots to come....

back to me laying in bed at 2 am NOT asleep:
i kept thinking to myself,
i really should just get up and write all of these ideas down
so i remember them in the morning.
i think i fell asleep soon after that thought.

and i remembered in the morning!
and i will post pictures.
even if it's not perfect.
or done.
which it won't be.
because nothing is
perfect.
or done. ;)

this was long and no pictures.
thanks for sticking with me.
i've missed you,
it's good to be back.
~elisabeth