Friday, May 10, 2013

Sold

Two weeks ago today Tye and I finally closed on our house in Winston Salem, it is finally SOLD!  After almost two years on the market and 3 relators later we received an offer and negotiated our way (well Tye negotiated our way, I was ready to accept the first crazy low offer) into a contract.  It felt like from the time we received the offer to the time we signed the final papers was forever.  We had less than 2 weeks to move everything out of the house and as you might know already we are renting in Davidson so this is our in between houses time so ALL of our belongings are stuffed into my parents house (thank you mom for your patience).  It feels so weird not having a permanent address but I would not change anything about this time we have had and the lessons we have learned. 

It felt so crazy moving everythign out (crazy in a good way).  It was a so real moment, that was our first house but we did not get too emotinal about it because we were so happy we could move on with the next chapter in our lives.  You never know how much stuff you have until you have to move it all out...it look's so weird all empty! 


 Maybe we watch too much HGTV but we wanted to leave a little something for the new homeowners...a bottle of wine and a card (of course)
It has been hard and there were times I gave up and thought the house was never going to sell and we were destined to not have a new home but Tye always made me feel better…we would say a prayer and have faith that one day when the time was right God would get it sold and he did.


Now the fun part begins and we get to start house hunting...YAY! 


Thursday, May 9, 2013

Fancy Writing

I love to write letters and send cards.  Everyone likes to receive a card in the mail I don't care who you are!  One of my favorite things about writing letters is addressing the envelope. I know that sounds a little crazy but it truly is one of my favorite parts.  So because of that I want to take a calligraphy class, and just so you know it is very difficult to find someone to teach you this art.  I have called around and finally found someone that is willing to teach me, so excited!  Old school calligraphy is nice and all but I want to write in curly q's and all.  Below are a couple of styles that I want to learn...







I have many containers filled with cards that I have collected through the years, I NEVER throw a card away and sooner or later I am going to do something crafty with all of them.  Below is a  Pinterest idea that I love...


I hope that snail mail ever gets old, I am a firm believer that a hand written card means more then an e-mail, text or e-vite so everyone I know keep an eye on your mailboxes!