Liberty's walking & Fall is here!!

Liberty has been teasing us with walking for a couple weeks now.  I really thought she would have been walking already, but she has decided to take her ol' sweet time {she just turned a year at the end of August}.  I say it is official, because every time I would put her down today, she would take off.  There was one time she walked nearly the full length of the living room and my bedroom....she couldn't be stopped!  Another time I put her down in the living room, walked into the kitchen and looked behind me and there she was following me!  She is such a little stinker!  She is so happy and excited about walking, it makes me happy!  Watch out world, here she comes!!

I am also so giddy about the weather!!  We had a boat load of rain over the weekend, and today was glorious!  The whole family stepped out this evening for a delightful walk.  There was definitely a hint of fall in the air.  It was just wonderful.  This is my favorite time of the year!

Blog changes coming your way!

There are a few minor changes taking place with my blog.  The big one is the title.  I have decided to change the name to Away Down South.  Don't you just love the sound of it?  I do!  There are several reasons for the change, the first one being that Covenant Blessings {dot} com was taken, and I have been wanting an actual domain name for a while now.  The other reason{s} is that I wanted something to do with the South, whether it was an olde southern saying, or just something grand about the South.  Since our move to Georgia over 3 1/2 years ago, we have fallen in love with southern life and all that it entails.  We have always loved it's grand history, {Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson being among our hero's} and it was always a dream of ours to live "Away down south in Dixie".  Anyway, I am so excited about the changes and I hope you like them too!  Feel free to leave a comment and tell me what you think.

"In Dixieland I'll take my stand, away down south in Dixie.... Away, away, away down south, in Dixie!"

Groovy Goodwill Gal

I am slowly working on Christmas gifts... s.l.o.w.l.y, mind you.  I have so many ideas running through my head, I guess that means that right now it would be nice to have a man's brain so that I could fit everything into it's own little box!  But I must be content with this spaghetti factory {commonly known as the female brain} that seems to be working too much overtime, and concentrate on one thing at time.  Okay.  That's settled.

Anyway, Monday afternoon I found some pretty good deals to help aid me in my attempt at making homemade gifts.  All the Wal-marts around here quit selling fabric a couple years ago, but Monday they had a table full of 5 yard bolts for only $5.00!  That was enough to make my day!  I also found a bag of lace at the Goodwill, and an unopened roll of rose wallpaper.  I can find all kinds of uses for the paper... scrapbook ideas, old-fashioned card making, art prints, notebook covers, the ideas are endless!  {there I go again...}

Liberty had a good time shopping too.  She thought she found the perfect pair of sunglasses {which lasted all of 30 seconds}.  But you have to admit, it was an awful CUTE 30 seconds!!  She's one GROOVY GIRL!

Quiet on the homefront...

Yes, it's been kind of quiet on the home front.  Not a lot to blog about.  We did start school last week and Liberty is taking a few steps now.  It seems like it happened over night, and she is kicking into gear!  If you stand her up she takes off like a rocket, except she usually ends up on her face after 3 or 4 steps.  She could very well be walking by the time she turns 13 months next week.

Another reason I haven't had much time to blog lately is because I am trying to get a head start on making Christmas gifts this year.  I started way too late last year and it made for some stressful days, to say the least.  So, hopefully I've started in plenty of time to get things done in a timely fashion!  My mind is also running over with ideas that I hope I can make some sense of without getting too overwhelmed!  I'm sure I'll post pictures eventually. 

If you haven't noticed, I've also taken most of the links off the front page of my blog.  If you'll look at the top of the page, I have a button with "links" on it that will take you to a separate page with links to all the blogs that I like to frequent.  If there is one you think I should add, feel free to comment or drop me a line.

So, if you've wondered what's been going on in our neck of the woods, wonder no more!  I'll try not to be so scarce from now on....

I LOVE a bargain!

It's September 1st, and a beautiful, magnificent day it is!  Me and the kids went out this morning to enjoy the great outdoors, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky!  Yes, it did get a little hot as the day wore on, but it wasn't overbearing, and yes, this is Georgia.... so it is still going to be pretty warm for quite a while yet.  We start school next week............ yeah, I'm not quite ready, but that's the way the cookie crumbles :)

I have to tell you about my wonderful thrift store find!  I went to several thrift stores and the Goodwill the other day {when I got groceries...not a very bright idea, btw, it made for a very long day}.  Anyway, at my last thrift store stop, which happened to be the Salvation Army, I found and fell in love with a beautiful picture hanging on the wall.  It's called "Sunday Morning in Sleepy Hollow".  I instantly called my husband and told him about it and he looked it up on the internet {don't ya just love the world wide web??} and found out it was a fairly expensive print -without the frame- and even more so with a frame, and of course "mine" was framed.  And to top it off, it was for sale at a GREAT price!  So I nabbed it up before it caught the eye of someone else!  I was thrilled to say the least!  I love it when I find a great bargain.  Rachel had a good day as well, she found quite a bit of fabric, which of course, made her day too!  I'd like to hear about some of y'alls bargain deals.  You know, the kind that make you feel like a kid at Christmas!

I'll leave you with a few of the pictures I took outside today.

She has a rough life, doesn't she?