Happy Wednesday!!!

As I posted a few weeks ago, we are downsizing and building a new home that will be better for me and the puppies…all on one level.

Needless to say; I am excited!  We found a lot on a street called West End (pictures below) to build our new home and it is perfectly flat.  Great for me and the puppies will love it too.  Unlike our current location (bear, hawks, turkey vultures, etc), we won’t have to worry about other animals bothering them.  In our new location, they will be able run and romp outside in a fenced in area like puppies should.  They won’t know what to do with themselves! LOL.  Where we live now is too dangerous to let them play outside.

We have to meet with the architect to get blueprints done from a design we found online.  It is going to be so exciting and a beautiful home.  I can’t wait for the fun stuff like picking out all the cabinets, moldings, tile, etc.

I will be posting during the progress of building and our continued progress in packing and the puppies (pretend you want to hear about them) LOL!

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all doing well!!  I am waiting for spring weather to appear in NJ but it hasn’t shown up yet.  Hopefully soon, I think it may reach the upper 50′s by the weekend.  I’ll take anything a bit warmer than the 30′s now.

It has been a very hectic time at Cloches and Lavender.  We have been packing for our move and I can’t believe how much we accumulated in 18 years in this home.  We have been packing the kitchen for what seems like forever.

Peanut and Reeses haven’t really enjoyed our packing, they can’t stand the noise from the tape gun.  Every time we take a box out to put together they give us a look , like they are saying, we are out of here and make a run for it to my office which they feel very safe and secure.

As you can see by the boxes piled up we are making some major headway.  I have missed blogging but I have to get this done.  I will keep you posted. On to other areas of the house now.

Have a great week and I will have updates very soon!

It has been a weird and tough few months at Cloches and Lavender.  I haven’t posted since January and I really miss it, but things have been going on behind the scenes.

As many of you know, I suffer from Multiple Sclerosis; I am still the same and have not had any episodes thank God!  However, we have been talking a lot lately about whether we should down size and sell our lovely home after 18 wonderful years.  It is a center hall colonial and the stairs have been a struggle for me for quite some time.

I have to go up the stairs one leg at a time since I can’t bend my right leg to well; as I suffer from drop foot due to the MS.  It is very tiring and I have fallen on occasion; not worth it anymore.

This is and was a very hard decision to make but it had to be done for my safety and well-being.  It will be better in the long run.  So downsizing and one level-living here we come.

We are moving to a much flatter area of Northern New Jersey about 10 minutes from where we are now and into a brand new ranch that we will build.  It will be better for me for everyday living and cleaning.  I will be able to take care of our two puppies more easily.

I am excited about our new endeavor.   I mean, come on, it is a new house and I get to do all my decorating all over again, so that is fun.  I could spend weeks and weeks picking out cabinets, hardwood floors, etc.

I haven’t started any new projects since we are going to be packing up the house in just a matter of weeks.  We are moving in with a friend while the house is getting done.  We are so blessed to have her in our lives.

On a sad note, just recently, we lost our brother-in-law to lung cancer.  He was a fantastic man and would do anything for anyone he cared for, he was great.  My husband has known him since he was 5 and he was actually an altar boy at his sister’s wedding to him.

He loved his family dearly and I am so thankful that he had a chance to see his brand new granddaughter.  He loved her very much.

I was and feel very blessed that I got to know such a wonderful man for 24 ½ years.

Look for posts in the future with updates on our new home and posts regarding our lives while we are at our friends home with 5 dogs in total.

I hope everyone is having a good week.  In NJ we are going through a cold snap.  It is 10 degrees this morning!!!

By now, everyone knows that I love placing transfers with Mod Podge on flower pots and embellishing them with various dried flowers, etc.  I recently made these pots for some folks that we don’t get to see during the Holidays.  They make nice little gifts and people appreciate the homemade thought.

One has Lavender (www.lavenderfanatic.com) and the other wheat grass (Michael’s); off course while I was doing these I had to make one for myself.

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