Pretty things

After Violet turned one, we decided to finish decorating her room.

We got a beautiful ceramic clock, appropriately girly for Violet's feminine room, and handmade by our friend Cindy. Stace put it up between the two framed pictures we've already been displaying.

Stace made a shelf, too, and I filled it with cutesy things. (Remember that you can click the photos to see them larger.)

This post is a couple of months late, with my apologies to Cindy! We love the clock and know Violet will cherish it as she grows up.

Stace then completed another small beautification project: he made a fence to hide our trash cans, so you don't see them as soon as you walk into the house as you glance out the sliding glass door.

(The two plants you see are cape mallows, a plant we read about in the gardening section of the newspaper. They're supposed to be extremely drought-tolerant and become big and bushy, with lots of pink flowers. We hope they take off and look gorgeous when Stace plants them over by our bedroom door.)

Stace put Cora and Violet's initials in the concrete when he set the post, as you can see in the photo.

And Cora helped paint the new fence, and the older gate. She's really becoming a great helper to Stace. She also helped drill in the screws as he built the fence in the garage.