Multitude Monday

51. Worship Music

52. Young Married's ministry get togethers

53. Batchelorette Parties

54. Weddings

55. visits with out of state friends

56. late night chats with girlfriends

57. chips & cheese dip...yummmmy!!

58. living 2 minutes away from my family

59. Thoughtful gifts from my husband

60. Secrets!

Pianos! Pianos!!

Jeff and I decided to clean out our garage this week. It's amazing how much junk and clutter we've collected during our 9 months of marriage!!! Before we started cleaning the garage, we couldn't even see our floor!! It was nearly impossible to even step outside our garage door without tripping on something. Boy, it's nice to declutter and throw old/unnecessary stuff out!!!

As we started to see the floor and walls again (LOL!) I noticed my old piano sitting by the garage wall. This is the 1st piano ever welcomed into the Ney house. We got it about 7 years ago from our local thrift store, when us girls started to take lessons in our house. It's not the "nicest" piano in the world--it lacks in looks as well as in sound and quality, but it has served us well. :) About 2 or 3 years before Jeff and I got married, some friends gave us their nicer piano and my parents planned on dumping the old one. I begged them to keep it, so I'd have a piano for my house, for whenever I got married and moved out. They sweetly stored it in their garage for me. When Jeff and I got married, we relocated the piano to our garage, since we don't have room in our house for it.

As I already stated, this isn't the nicest piano. It's an old upright, and I believe it's about 80 years old. All the keys are chipped and the strings inside the piano are getting too delicate to even tune. Last year, I tried to sand it down (because the stain was so ugly!!) Well, since it had been sitting in the garage for so long, it sanded down a bit funky. It's got stain spots all over it now. I'm not even going to post a picture on here of it, because it's so pathetic looking on the eyes.

I was talking to my mom this afternoon, trying to decide if I should just dump it (and down the line, when we get a bigger house, i'll just buy a new one) or if I should finish sanding it down (because I KNOW with some work it will sand down to some nice clean wood) paint it up and put new keys & strings in it. I haven't priced new keys and strings yet, but I'd assume it would be about the same price or cheaper to buy a used new piano as it would be to fix this one up...? I'm still trying to decide if it's worth it or not, but at this point, I think i'm going to fix this one up.

I looked up some pictures online of "painted pianos" as I don't plan on staining it again once it's sanded. I found some crazily painted pianos, as well as a few that I really like. I'm trying to get some ideas for mine! :) Enjoy these photos!

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Nice and simple!!

Wow!! Isn't this one cool?
I like this one!! It looks like a fairytale!

This one is pretty too! This one is cool too!

More down my alley! lol

Crazy!! I wish I was this talented!! This one is soo neat!

An "underwater" themed piano!!

Front of the "underwarter" piano...so much detail!

Victorian!

Lol, this looks like a rainbow exploaded on it!!!

These last three are my favorites, I'll copy on of them:

I love the red!!

So beautiful!!!

This white one is so countryish and romantic--which I love,

but would collect dirt easily.

Audrey Assad - Everything Is Yours

~Everything is Yours~

When all the world is blossoming
When everything around is bursting into life
And I don’t have to strain to hear the beat of Your heart
oh, oh…

When all the world is under fire
When the skies are threatening to thunder and rain
And I am overcome by fears that I can’t see
oh, oh…

If everything is Yours, everything is Yours
If everything is Yours,
I can let it go; it was never mine to hold.

Who could command the stars to sing
or hold the raging seas from breaking through the doors
and tend the fragile roses with the very same hands?
oh, oh…

I can let it go–I can let it go
Cause everything is Yours, everything is Yours.

Multitude Monday

41. American Food!!!
(for those wondering about this...flip over to my mom's blog and read about our African meal!!)

42. Our visit with Papa & Nana!

43. Encouragement from friends

44. Poker with Papa

45. Prayer

46. Lynette's little red purse ;-)

47. cleaning our garage with my hubby!

48. New workout regiments!

49. Failed diets...

50. Breyer's Peach Icecream

Eoghan Heaslip - God only Wise

This is an amazing song with awesome lyrics. I wanted to share it with my readers.

God only wise
We open our hearts and turn to You
We lift up our eyes
And all that we are we offer You

You're the Lord of space and time
And everything You do brings life
You bring life

Take every hope and longing God
Take all our joy and pain
Use us to bless this broken world
Use us to bring You praise
all that we have we give You now
All that we are is Yours alone
Teach us to trust You with our lives
God only wise

God only wise
Who else can guide so faithfully?
Sovereign and kind
You see what we can't see

Multitude Monday

31. A clean house

32. Old tv shows

33. Double dates with dear friends

34. Good deals!

35. Bowling with my family!

36. Clean laundry

37. Maycie's muddy footprints on clean sheets

38. New shirts

39. Anticipation of papa & nana's arrival

40. Romans 8:28

Chocolate Cupcakes!

I think my life calling is to be a cupcake baker. I think I shall pursue this dream...

I've always wondered...

how do they get their frosting so darn smooth?

These look amazing!!

Very cute and tastey looking :)

I have a special place for these in my heart...

they're chocolate brownie cupcakes!!

This one looks really yummy!

Oh boy oh boy oh boy!!!!

Yummmy!!!

German Chocolate Cupcake...

wow!!! It looks wonderful!!!!

Carrot Cupcakes

Today's blog post (in the Cupcake series) is going to be...Carrot Cupcakes!!
REST ASSURED ALL FELLOW BLOGGERS...these are raisin free ;-)

Strawberry Cupcakes

These cupcakes are a definate improvement from yestserday's coconut ones. Strawberries are so refreshing. I plan on making several of these recipes over the summer. MMMmmm...can you picture it? Strawberry cupcakes with a glass of lemonaid?

Yumm!!! Don't they look amazing?

White Chocolate Strawberry Cupcakes

Believe it or not...this one looks wonderful!!!!

Chocolate DIPPED Strawberry Cupcakes!! Wow...heaven!

Coconut Cupcakes

First off...coconut does NOT belong on cupcakes. Anything that makes something as yummy as cupcakes look "hairy" should not be legal. (With my saying this, I love coconut...just not on cupcakes!) Look at how scary some of these look...

YIKES!!!

this one looks like someone licked the top part of the frosting off!

I keep waiting for these ones to sprout legs and crawl off :-/

Now for a few I think look somewhat tastey...

These are Papaya Coconut cupcakes...

I'm going to make these ones soon :)