Thanks so much!!

This has been a very inspiring week for me. Amazing how one week can change things for you.

When I started this blog, it was something I wanted to see if I could do. I have been reading blogs a little over two years now. I have seen some beautiful furniture remakes and room transformations. All something I knew I could do. Things I have done in the past. A conversation with a friend made me want to try it myself. To show others it not hard or expensive to do on your own. I always ask myself, “how hard can it be??”

So, I read other bloggers postings on how they do things. How they do projects, the amount of time they invest. I read about cameras, and taking photos. I looked at template sites, for different backgrounds. My boyfriend gave me a camera for Christmas, I played with it a little. But I put it off, I didn’t start. I couldn’t take another step. I wasn’t ready.

Then one night, I spilled a glass of sangria on the slipcover of the couch. They needed to be washed anyway. The next day, I cleaned, really cleaned the living room. It was looking good. I decided to take some pictures. That made me want to get the template I had been looking at for a couple of weeks. It made me think that maybe it was time to try. “How hard can it be?”

I posted the tour of the living room, not thinking anything of it. I was trying to see if I could write a posting. I was testing my camera and I was playing with iPhoto on my computer. I had changed my template, trying to see if I could get a good look to my blog. I was pretty happy about it all. It wasn’t  as hard as I had thought it might be. I was just trying to see if I could do it.

A few days later I was at work, and someone said to me, my living room was “really nice”. I was a little taken a back. I knew he knew about it. I had spoken briefly about the blog with him and a few others. I never thought anyone was looking at it but me. It made me laugh. I told another  friend he had seen it, showed her my posting. The next day, at work, on break, I walked in the break room and everyone in there was looking at it. They told me it was great!! It was so sweet, it made me laugh. It made me feel like I could do this. Really do this.

Then IT really blew up. The friend who inspired me to start saw the Living room posting, and posted  it on her Facebook page. I am not on Facebook, or have seen much of it. I went from having one person looking at my little blog to over 70. How can that happen? How crazy is that? It’s not much to any real blogger, but huge to me. I was laughing. Maybe I can do this, how hard can it be?

So, Thank you to anyone who took a little look. Thank you to anyone who may have liked what they saw. Please leave me a comment. I want to learn, and I need your help.

Thanks again.