Learning the (technical) blogging ropes.

I'll just put it out there:  I want my blog to look pretty.  I want to do it myself.  I had no idea it was so difficult.  


I have a pretty decent threshold for learning technology.  I say that because it takes me a few hours of tinkering around on a new program before I want to throw the entire computer out the window and cry.  I'd say someone with a low threshold for learning technology would have their computer (and perhaps other desk accessories) out the window in about 30 seconds.  I have personal experience with several people who belong in the latter category. 



So, even though I consider myself somewhat tech-savvy, I'm really reconsidering what I thought I could do.  I give HUGE props to the ladies who have beautiful, sleek, eye candy blogs.  


Please forgive me if in the next few weeks you see my blog take many shapes and forms (some more pleasing than others, I'm sure).  And if you have any beginners advice on how to make scrapbooky backgrounds on Gimp, Pixlr, and/or Photoshop Elements I'm all ears. 


I'm pretty sure I'll need the "In the event of tears..." hankies from our wedding, too.  

And so it begins...

Welcome, friends.

As Jeff and I get ready to embark on the journey to moving into our beautiful new home, I thought it would be nice to document our progress. Since my love for home decor, antiques, and DIY projects started with reading countless blogs by amazingly talented people, I thought I'd start a blog of my own. I have no idea who will actually read this blog, but hopefully I can inspire someone. :)

The title of the blog is a line from the poem that was read at our wedding, "The Master Speed" by Robert Frost. Here's the poem if you haven't heard it before:

"No speed of wind or water rushing by

But you have speed far greater. You can climb

Back up a stream of radiance to the sky,

And back through history up the stream of time.

And you were given this swiftness, not for haste

Nor chiefly that you may go where you will,

But in the rush of everything to waste,

That you may have the power of standing still-

Off any still or moving thing you say.

Two such as you with such a master speed

Cannot be parted nor be swept away

From one another once you are agreed

That life is only life forevermore

Together wing to wing and oar to oar."

I chose this title because it represents what Jeff and I intend to do in our new home; stand still. We bought this home with the intention to "grow into it" and stay in the Charlottesville, Virginia area for the future. I can't wait to come home and sit in our chairs in the library, or take a glass of wine out on the back patio...and just stand still.