Be Our Guest

I am busy today getting ready for my sister and her family.  They are coming to escape from winter spend a few days with us in Texas.  They are driving all the way from Minnesota with 2 little ones ~ sound like fun?

Our home has 4 bedrooms, and 2 of them are on the main floor.  At first we thought of using this room for our work out space as the previous owners did.  

This is a picture of the room before, taken after we bought the house, but while the other people still lived here.  The same wall and trim color that was in every single room.

                              Come on in to our guest room.


This is the room at the end of the long hall.  I've posted pictures of the library and guest bath that are along this hall.

 {The reverse of this sign says Room Service.  That doesn't happen much in my house!}

 This is the sampler that hangs just in front of you as you open the door.  I made this in 1988 when we built the house that looks just like the one in the sampler.  This house was in Springfield, Missouri and we sold it in 1989.  In 1990 it was flattened by a tornado.  Not a stick was left.  No one died, thank goodness in our house, but a man was killed in the neighborhood.  It was a terrible storm and I was always thankful that we didn't live there anymore.  I loved that house though.  We had a female builder and she had great attention to detail.


This sampler hung in the entry of that house, and I love the blessing on it.

 Here is the room ~ same butter yellow as most of my house.


The teddy bear on the chair is mink, made from my aunt's mink stole I believe.  Almost all of the accessories in this room are family pieces.

I framed the pictures of the brides in our family for my daughters' weddings.  They were married 51 weeks apart.  The prayer book is the one I carried in my wedding, with the ribbons still in it.  They are a little yellow after almost 34 years.

 The bedding on the bed I've had forever.  It was in our room when this was our bed.  I did have the plaid pillows, bedskirt, and tablecloth made when we moved into this house.

 Bedside necessities.  There is chocolate in that box with the violets on it!  I guess my clock needs replacing ~ this one is a CD player, but I guess I need one with an IPod dock for my guests these days.

 The other side, with the pocket door open to the guest bath.  On either side of the bed are samplers I made for my girls when they were born.  I used to do a lot of cross stitch and had it all over my house.  Now all that remains is located in this room.  I still love it and it goes well in here.

 No room for a dresser in here, but my little secretary fits nicely.  

 It holds all of my Brambly Hedge dishes.  Love these cute little plates and cups.  I did a tablescape here with them.

 The closet wall holds some needlework that my mother did, on the right, and some old pieces from my family on the right.

Sorry for the crooked picture, but I wanted to show a close up of one of these that my mother did.  Both pictures are of 2 girls, blond, sharing a book.  These could be my girls!  My mother stitched them when they were about this age, and their very favorite thing to do has always been reading.  One of my girls always wore pink and the other lavender, so these really are so sweet.  Love these, and I am so glad that they go so well in here.

It is a gloomy day in Texas and cold, so the lighting in these pictures is terrible, but I wanted to join in some parties this week.


 I am linking to:


Kim at Savvy Southern Style for Wow us Wednesdays
Sherry at No Minimalist Here for her Open House party
Robin at All Things Heart and Home for All Things Inspired party