Vote for Ella!

Remember these faces from my flower girl posts?

Well, the older of the two lovlies, Ella, was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes about a year ago. Yep, that precious little blonde muffin is stuck with needles and pain and sugar-free everything. Forever.

Unless.

Unless a cure can be found within her lifetime. And people, that's not a far-fetched dream. Millions of people are affected by Type 1, but, as with any disease, the kiddos dealing with it are the most heartbreaking. Ella is such a trooper (not to mention her parents!), even marching herself to the nurse to get injections in this, her first grade year of school.

Ella and her family are walking for a cure at the Mall of America in Minnesota again this year, and if you are so inclined, make a donation to support them and the cause as a whole. Just click the link and it will take you to The Prose Family team where you can donate any (ahem: tax deductible) amount you wish, high or low.

Click here to support Ella!

Every penny counts, for Ella and for everyone touched by Type 1 Diabetes. Please help if you can!

 Want more info on the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)? Check it out here.

Vignettes

As I was tidying up scrubbing things down from our week-o-sickness, I found myself thinking that it's the little items in our home that I love the most. Those little groupings that really define who we are and make our home OURS.

vi·gnette (vin-yet)
1.  An unbordered picture, often a portrait, that shades off into the surrounding color at the edges.
2.  A short scene or incident, as from a movie.
3.  To describe in a brief way.

Antique vase from my grandmother, a 7 to represent our anniversary.

Pretty gifted glasses and tray with custom lace from Nate's great aunt.

Boots and a good mat: Rainy season must-haves.

Beckoning cat, family photo, and fun reads in the coffee table.

Random Round Up: Under the Weather

We rallied toward the end of the weekend, but it was pretty slow going the last few days! Thankful for a job that allows for some recovery time, a hot mug of tea, and a couch piled with blankets and a warm puppy.

Frosty morning

Lots of this happening.

Taking care of me or just begging?*

Nate was down and out Saturday - Puppy heating pad, engage.

Last home U.Dub game of the season & last game at CenturyLink field - Renovated Husky Stadium next year!

Here's to a new and healthy week ahead!



*Did you notice the hairless bump by Tucker's nose? Don't be concerned - The vet checked him out and said it's basically a conglomeration of white blood cells that will disappear in a few weeks. Keeping an eye on it to be sure, but all's well. :)

Sick Day[s]

Just popping in to apologize for the lack of content this week - I've been down and out, even taking a sick day to stay home and sleep yesterday. On the upswing now... although Nate's taken a turn for the worse.

At least we can swap taking care of each other, I guess...! Have a great weekend.

dreamy. image

Random Round Up: Belated

A lovely head cold and internet difficulties equal out to a much-belated Random Round Up for this last week/weekend. Better late than never...?

Tuck is loving the fireplace being in action again.

Halloween nails

Candlelight on a dreary day.

Hawks Sunday game for a dear friend's birthday.

How is it time for the red Starbucks cup to be out again already?!

Errand Girl: Picking up balloons for Laura Bee Designs' 10 year anniversary!

Still a few leaves left to brighten a moody morning on the waterfront.

VOTE!!

If you haven't sent in a ballot already, please - GO VOTE TODAY!! 

It's important, and it counts. 

Sufferage ephemera from the 20s

Easy Update: Caulk Re-Do

Sometimes it's the smallest details that make something look polished and "done". Definitely the case in the latest easy update we tackled: Re-doing the caulking on our kitchen backsplash.

Granted, this wasn't a project we really set out to tackle initially - The wood backsplash that came in our kitchen is not exactly our idea of dreamy, and it had to come out to lay down our countertop. Since that went in, we sort of just had it tacked back in place with the nails it had in it as a stop-gap measure before our "real backsplash" (aka: tile) came to fruition.

Makeshift dining chair sawhorses.

Well, it's not coming as quickly as we had hoped based on other projects that have taken priority. So! Rather than continue to have the random wayward water spill around the sink drain down behind the cabinets, we decided just to caulk it on the bottom and keep things dry until the "real" version gets put in down the line.

Safety first - Avoiding flying caulk scraps.

The builders did a pretty horrendous job of being tidy with their caulking job, so I scraped and sanded as much of their remnants off that I could without doing too much damage to the wood itself.

White now, but will dry completely clear.

Then once the nails were tapped back into place, a layer of clear caulk went down, followed by a swipe with one of those fantastic triangular squeegee tools (sort of similar to this).

See the line of where the caulk was previously? Yikes!

Now really, builders, how hard is that to make tidy? If I hadn't had to clean up their job, this whole thing would have taken about 10-15 minutes. Since I did, the job ran Nate and I about 40 minutes, but hey, under an hour for turning something irritatingly messy into something I can live with is pretty great.