Every Superhero Needs a Cape!

I’ve been thinking a lot about dreams lately.  Not the sleeping kind (maybe I am not reaching the right REM cycle…that’s a different issue I’m sure) but the living out of life dreams!  Not sure why as to be honest, I can’t say that I have EVER been much of a dreamer.  I’m a realist through and through stuck in the land of here and now and what if’s have no place.  Kinda boring really.  Maybe it’s the recent dream of a newly decorated home and the creative side (I never thought I had) coming out.   

Maybe it’s that I absolutely love the show SMASH and that it’s all about living out dreams in the inspiring lights of NYC.   

 http://www.nbc.com/smash/

 Maybe it’s the superhero birthday party I went to a few weeks ago for the Best Boy Ever.  Maybe it’s the new Nicki Minaj song, “Starships were meant to fly!”   

Don’t you just love that one?  I ‘m not sure where these thoughts are coming from but I am not going to push them aside.

My husbands always been a dreamer!  Funny that!  He loves to play the What If game on long drives in the car.  He works his dreams into conversations as if they were reality.  Though I tend to roll my eyes at the “crazy” thoughts and dreams he may have, I actually admire him for this quality.  He dreams big and I love that.  I want that. 

The more I ponder on this the more I realize that it is only through dreams that Life can happen, real life.  Hope and Joy become tangible! 

So bring on the dreams.  Childlike dreams that let me fly!  What will your cape look like?

Here we Go, Here we Go, Here we Go again!

Girls, what's my weakness?  It's not Men....Sorry Salt 'N' Peppa!  But know that I will be singing your song...all day!  Here we go again with the blog!

Just a month later!  No too bad, right?  I will get the hang of this!  Working on getting the design layout just like I want it!  I guess this will take a few posts because I just cannot seem to master this part!  Anyone know how to get my picture to go all the way across the screen?  Having a hard time with that one!

You can now see our lovely, modest, quiet, surrounded by beauty, tiny country cottage here in the header pic!  We purchased our home (our 1st home) almost 6 years ago!  It was such an amazing and wonderful time in our life!  We knew we wanted to go ahead and buy because we were spending a fortune in rent.  We also knew we wanted something modest and well below our rent cost as we wanted a life outside of our home too.  When we saw this, we fell in love!  On an acre of land and 3.5 miles outside of city limits, it's the perfect location!  We do have neighbors, but our houses are spread far apart and directly off of the side door is a view of our neighbors pasture with horses, and cows.  The dogs could not have asked for more in life.  I'd like to be in a place of contentment like that.

I like to say that we are "Falling in love with our Country Cottage again."  Maybe its the 6 year itch, but we are getting tired of our space, wanting more.  We realize the grass is not always greener though!  We don't have kids yet so is space really an issue?  We dream of paying our house off in full in the next few years, and then having as a rental property or selling outright for full profit.  We love love love the location and are pretty sure we will not find another piece of land as wonderful.  This means we stay put!  So I decorate, I organize, I attempt (heavy on attempt at this point) to garden, but I also learn (am still learning) to live in contentment!  It's amazing how the Lord uses things like a house to teach us.  With time, project after project and stitch after stitch.... I am falling in love again!  Don't get me wrong...I can't wait for the next project, the next fluff, the next STEAL on Craigslist... but more than anything, the life, love and memories to come in our HOME!  I look forward to sharing our LIFE with you~

Yup, I joined the club!

Okay, well here we go!  I am writing a blog as you can see here!  Yep, tried this before and it was an epic fail.  So why not do it again!  Thanks to Emily over at http://southernsewendipity.blogspot.com/ I am inspired as well as informed on how to get started, so let it begin!  I can't promise that I will do this well, or often, but I am here now and want to share my joy of life, loves and crafts!

Who is this crazy girl?  I am Tracey and just turned 30 a few months ago!  You could say that is part of what started this whole string of events that brought me here (More on that in the posts to come)!  I have 2 dogs Georgia and Mica and yes, I like my dogs to kiss me on the face!  They are the cutest, snuggliest, sweetest puppies (7 years old) you have ever seen!  Why not?

 I have a husband of almost 7 years and we live a little life in beautiful East Texas.  

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Well, that's not him, but you get the idea!

Why TulaLynnDesigns you ask?  Well, I have always (for the last 7 years or so) wanted to name our future daughter Tallulah Lynn....isn't that the most wonderful classic and southern name?  I think so!  She would be beautiful and funny and smart and the cutest thing you have ever seen with a Heart the size of Texas.  But my husband has given the veto...and believe me, I have tried really really hard!  What I ave not told you is that my last name is Bartula.  So her name would be Tallulah Lynn Bartula.  So you kind of see his reasoning, I guess!  Maybe he will reconsider when we are actually expecting, but for now, I  will be content with a blog named after this wonderful imaginative character.  TulaLynnDesigns has a nice ring to it, huh?  Blog names are hard people!  We'll just go with it!

So blogs should be on the shorter side, right?  With that, I will bring this to an end.  I hope you enjoy this fun new adventure with me!

Blessings,
Tracey