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Happy Ours Cottage, my virtual home tour with the Arkansas Women Bloggers.

March 13, 2017 2 Comments
nwafoodie home tour - jars (c)nwafoodie

nwafoodie home tour - jars (c)nwafoodie

Have you ever heard about the mindset “power of positive thinking?” I pretty much live by it. Not in an official standpoint, in case it is a real movement or something. There is something about setting your mind to see the positive and dreaming the possible.

And yes. Yes, I have been called Pollyanna before. Thank you for asking.

Four-ish years ago we moved to our home in Bella Vista, Arkansas. It was a blank slate of plain beige enamel vinyl siding and a driveway with a massive cement girth that butts right up to the house. And when I say butts up, I mean literally. There is no charming front porch, dirt, or grass patch that we can pretty up. So, we put on our positive thinking cap and decided right then-and-there that our plain Jane would become a cottage.

Dream it and it will become, right?

So we hammered and painted, shingled and stained, incorporated window boxes and strategically placed potted plants. It’s still a work in progress… but we love it.

nwafoodie home tour - window box (c)nwafoodie

We call it “Happy Ours Cottage.”

Not quite a cottage.

But it’s ours and it makes us happy.

Recently the Arkansas Women Bloggers shared a virtual home tour of our little-cottage-that-could. You’ll find I have a pine comb “thing.” Dennis and I save them from our favorite places on earth. We love art and “things” that have a story.

nwafoodie home tour - jars2 (c)nwafoodie

nwafoodie home tour - photo gallery (c)nwafoodie

nwafoodie home tour - pot rack (c)nwafoodie

It’s small. It’s cozy. And, we absolutely love our forever home.

Does your home have a name? I highly recommend giving it one… something magical happens to it when you do.

Happy touring.

Eat well, my friends. Eat well.

Lyndi

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  1. Debbie says

    March 14, 2017 at 6:49 am

    Your “Cottage” is a perfect reflection of you–all warm and inviting:)

    Reply
    • lyndi says

      March 15, 2017 at 6:31 am

      Thank you for the compliment!

      Reply

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