We’ve been busy changing things up a bit. I’ve wanted to change the pictures in the kitchen for some plate racks for quite some time now. While Bobby and I were out shopping at Hobby Lobby a few weeks ago I spotted these at a great big discount for just $12.00 a piece and ‘had to have them’.

The racks only had one hook on the back for support and Bobby wanted to ensure that they would go nowhere. He founds some nifty brackets to fasten them to the wall and hung them for me over the weekend. The problem, some of the plates I wanted to use were too large for the rack. The solution, I went on an all out search yesterday for some plates as it drove me nuts just seeing two of my own resting in there and the remainder areas blank. I went to 5 different places on my search yesterday morning and finally resorted to the mall. I shopped both floors looking for the ‘perfect’ plates. My last stop was Macy’s and I found some pretty awesome plates and made my purchase. Got home only to find out my plates were just a ½” shy of fitting. So back to the mall to return my wonderful find. I went on over to Hobby Lobby in Fort Worth not feeling very optimistic as I had already been to the Hobby Lobby in my area and came up empty handed over here. What do you know, Fort Worth had a different selection and I found what I believe to be the perfect plates for the kitchen. Quite frankly, I’m thrilled the first round of plates were too big as I hit a jazzy 50% off sale at Hobby Lobby to boot.

These pictures once hung where my new plate racks reside. I was going to put these pictures in the yard sale /donation pile but then had an idea that they would go perfectly on this stair wall right off the kitchen.

Today is a busy one. I’m working on my spring cleaning this week. The fireplace is already sparkling clean and I’ll be adding that fresh coat of black paint (made for fireplaces) in there today, just to give it that boost I like to see.

Our leather furniture and mattress set will be here tomorrow. Bobby and I did decide on our coffee table and end tables. We went with the ones that don’t have a sofa table but we’ve decided to find something like a console table to match the color of the other tables. We get half of our tables tomorrow and the other two are on backorder until May 8th. Those tables are worth the wait as we’re not going anywhere anytime soon.

Thursday my cousin Lisa ‘West’ Stoner and family will be visiting with us for the day. They’re from AZ and vacationing in TX and wanted to spend some time with us during their visit. We just learned about their visit last week, so luckily the delivery date set for our furniture doesn’t conflict with Thursday or we would have a problem. It’s surprising how things are clicking right along. Well, I had better keep moving with my cup of coffee or else…