How it came to be

My mom saw a picture of this wall and said I should share how it came to be.  It was beauty created after my last post. It came to be because we needed a place to store coffee mugs. In this house I struggle with not having much cupboard or storage space. And we do coffee around here. When we have company, sometimes we do a lot of coffee. We were going to use hooks, but when Dru went out that Saturday to look for them, he couldn’t really find anything, except for these little white shelves. Now I HAD wanted hooks, but being determined not to be fussy, I said, “Yes, get them.”

I also had the black wire coffee mugs since Hannah gave them to me for Christmas a year ago. I never had a spot to hang them. So they went up by the hooks. I wanted a black board for school, lists, and etc., but that didn’t come until after my cousin Geneva sent the sign at the very top—totally unaware that I was in the middle of this project. It was a confirmation in my little heart that doing this was maybe “okay.” As for the armadillo, my mother in law gave me a whole set of ABCs like this but I was sad because I wasn’t sure how to hang or use them in this house. They’re something she actually took out of a book. All of them are laminated and tough—so far surviving all of the abuse we’ve given them. I was very tickled to think that perhaps I could hang them one at a time as Havilah studies the ABCs…and she’s not going to be nearly as easy as Jube was to teach.

As for that rooster, he was floating around the house and one day landed there. He’s been kind of stubborn about it, so there he stays.

So that’s how the wall came to be…it all just kind of floated together in a logical sequence—I didn’t know how it was going to look when I was done. But I knew I had a wall hanging from Hannah and I needed to put coffee mugs somewhere. That’s where it started. It’s a happy, practical spot for me.

After writing my last post I’ve been thinking about my little difficulty a lot. I’m finding some peace in the idea that I am who God made me and as I can use these gifts to serve and bless others, then that brings glory to God. I also think that there are somethings I need to do better about my decor in that I need to make an effort to make it practical as possible. Something living in this little house will probably drive me to whether or not I was willing.