Projects In Progress

Alternate title: I suck at finishing anything!

I know, I've totally slacked off on blogging this summer. I think I have house project ADD or something, I can't seem to fully finish anything enough to have pretty pictures for a full "reveal" blog post. But I'm owning up to it. Fully admitting I've got a problem, because without fail, halfway through a project I'm already daydreaming about the next one, and lose motivation to finish what I'm working on so I can move on to the next exciting thing.

So. Now that you guys know I have a problem, here's a sort of 'Friday Fly By' post to share what I've been working on, but not shared yet because it's not finished!

First, our garage makeover project. This is like 90% done. Although I kind of fear I'll never get around to cleaning up everything for nice "after" photos. But since I last posted about the garage, I've built and painted this firewood storage cart.

(Built = making it up as I went along until it looked roughly like I wanted in my head)

But I still haven't gotten around to painting and attaching the top of it, to make a shelf space on top for storing citronella candles.

Hiking Chimney Rock, Little Bradley Falls and Pearson's Falls

I'm back to share more photos from our recent trip to the mountains!

These photos are from the hikes we took near Lake Lure, NC. First, up, Chimney Rock State Park, which was only a few minutes drive from where we were staying. After a winding drive up the mountain, we parked near the base of Chimney Rock.

End of Summer Trip to Lake Lure

Another vacation post! We've been traveling a lot this summer, and have several more trips planned over the next few months. But before fall officially begins this weekend, I wanted to share a quick recap of our trip to beautiful Lake Lure.

Lake Lure is in the NC mountains, about a four hour drive away from Raleigh, and where a lot of the scenes in Dirty Dancing were filmed. We spent four fun days in a house we rented right on the lake, hiking, swimming, canoeing and relaxing.

The lake view from the living room.

Spotted

Taken out our front window:

This little guy was eating my hostas, but I'll forgive him because he is just so adorable!