Talk to Me Tuesday on Tip Junkie

Tip Junkie is doing a Virtual Tour of Homes on her Talk to me Tuesday post. And of course I have to participate. These are the top 10 things I love about my home.

I love President Hinckley's 9 B's and nothing like vinyl lettering on a board over my back door to display it. I am also not a wallpaper fan, but my house came with this wallpaper in the kitchen that I love.

I love family pictures and I usually don't hang anything on my walls, put things out unless it has a special meaning to me. These are pictures of Steve's parents and my parents and their parents. I put these next to one of our engagement pictures and a quote I framed by President Kimball (I think) that reads, "Let there be no Empty Chairs in our Heavenly Home." This is also something my dad quoted often.

I love this little corner that was all started with the framed "Families Can Be Together Forever" sheet music made by my Mother-in-Law. My parents also gave us the nice picture of President Hinckley which is always a great reminder of how we stand for something good.

I have posted this before, but it is one of my favorites. This was an old church bench I grew up with in my home. It had been many different colors in the past and I was able to "inherit" it thinking I would strip it down and just stain it. Well, it wasn't as pretty as I thought it would be so it is now this beautiful red bench in my home. And the pillow was gift that my awesome sister-in-law made. I LOVE LOVE it.

This is a picture of the court house in my home town, which was the the County Seat. I think it is a beautiful building and am so lucky to have a picture of it. It was a suprise gift from my husband. I also love the frame.

These are pictures of a train station and old home from the town my husband grew up in. Like I said before almost everything I hang has a meaning. I am going to get some vinyl lettering to put on these pictures describing what they are. Got this idea from the Tip Junkie herself.

This is a picture of a corner in my girls room. I painted it light purple and stenciled this cute boarder to give it a nice cottage look with the uneven ceiling. I haven't done anything else to the room yet so that is why you only get a corner view.

This staircase was a fun feature of our house. And of course more pictures, all of our kids.

I saw this iron rod at a friends house and had to get one. I ordered it from Rod Works out of Utah. The pictures are of each of our kids around the age of one and they are my favorite pictures.

This is showing off part of my collection of the Willow Tree figurines that I love on my mantel. Even if my kids keep knocking them off and we keep glueing them back together.

I love this view from my dining room and yes, more pictures.

I have posted this before also, but our dining room table is lucky to still be in our home. It is actually the table that Steve grew up eating on. So there are lots of great family memories there. But it was pretty rickety. I loved it and so made Steve help me sand it down and refinish it. Actually, I helped Steve. But it is beautiful. And I was able to save up enough of my cake decorating money to buy new chairs, the chairs I wanted, for the table. The chairs that were with it were going to be way to much work for us amateurs to try to salvage.


I hope no one counted how many favorites I have.