11 Steps to Selling a Gardener's House

1. Pray!

2. Become convinced your house will not sell after all

3. Daydream up a plan to revamp your current gardens (since you'll need a new project sans the moving!)

4. Blog about said plan. Double points if you include Pinterest garden photos.

5. Find hidden tips in the comments about baking bread before showings and running a slideshow of the garden in full bloom during showings

6. Fiercely enact all tips in #5 for the next unsuspecting people who come to look at your house. (If you find you can't do this fiercely, ferociously is also acceptable)

7. Accept the offer they immediately make after being positively overwhelmed by your home

(Source)

8. Be incredibly thankful that you dug up and stored most of your bulbs in the fall as well as a few takealong plants.

9. Realize that you now have to start packing and have no place to go.

10. Go to get boxes that your in-laws conveniently left for you in their garage. If you can manage to somehow misidentify their house and try on two separate occasions to break into a stranger's house - before you realize that the reason the key isn't working is because it's the wrong house! - you are sillier than me.

11. Keep on praying, since nothing is for sure until closing. 

We're not sure yet what house we'll end up in, but we trust that God is good and will provide. It's exciting and scary and then exciting again, so we are thankful that while our emotions are flip-flopping all over the place, we have a steadfast Father. :) 

From one man He made every nation of men, 

that they should inhabit the whole earth;

And He determined the time set for them,

 and the exact places where they should live. (Acts 17:26)

Downton Abbey

Is anybody else adrift without a new Downton Abbey episode tonight?

I will not look for season 3 spoilers, I will not look for season 3 spoilers. 

I will not look for season 3 spoilers.

Compulsive Transplanting is Pinterest's Fault

My very dear husband has been forewarned that if our house does not sell by the time our contract runs up in April, my Compulsive Transplanting disorder will be kicking into high gear. He's pretty used to coming home and discovering mass upheaval new projects, but I wanted to give him plenty of advance notice this time.  I have a laundry list a mile longer than any paper I can find in the house.

While I've been mentally painting faux backsplashes, I've been staring out into the bleak winter garden. Dangerous, I know. Which leads to pinning more of these garden pictures at Pinterest.

Source: flickr.com via Hanni on Pinterest

Source: countryliving.com via Hanni on Pinterest

Source: sunset.com via Hanni on Pinterest

Source: dreamshappythings.blogspot.com via Hanni on Pinterest

Source: vintagehome.tumblr.com via Hanni on Pinterest

Source: brabournefarm.blogspot.com via Hanni on Pinterest

Now if I looked out my window and saw one of these gardens,  I'd be fairly confident I'd died and arrived at my heavenly home. :)
Cause this is what I see looking out the window of my earthly home!

I was surprised to see a common theme while looking at my Pinterest garden board. Several  of the gardens that have caught my eye enough to be pinned have a formal element to them - specifically, a straight pathway leading to a focal point. Shocker! I would have denied it if the pinned evidence wasn't right in front of me.


 I do love the "wildness" of cottage gardens,
 but I have enough of an active left brain to like a tidy straight line.

So...of course that means my active right brain is coming up with all kinds of plans to rearrange.
 Compulsive Transplanting Disorder strikes again!

(Check out my Welcome to Pinterest  post if the Pinterest garden images are enough to make your mouth water and contemplate coming over to the Pinterest dark side...@PlantPostings...)