House for Hope...

Have you visited the House for Hope yet? I just love walking through homes and seeing how things are laid out, getting ideas on paint colors, new gadgets and creative design. Mr. T and I went to Island Park off Clyde Fant on Saturday to check her out. My favorite part of the floor plan was the open kitchen overlooking the living room area right when you walk in.

Beautiful kitchen countertops, backsplash, and cabinetry, new appliances, and built-in shelving. Wow.

A walk in pantry is a little bit of a dream of mine- I mean look at how organized you can be in this space!

 The bedrooms were okay, but I feel in love with this painting on the wall. Thinking of trying to recreate it...

Mr. T liked the lighting and I liked the iron work up the stairwell. 

 The first room you come to upstairs is a media room. T was most impressed with the built-in speakers - I like the leather reclining chairs :)

Double sinks, pretty tile, and a place for towels? Does the Duchess of Cambridge live here? I kid, I kid. We really do love our 1940s home with all of it's charm and it kind of felt like we were cheating on her with this new 2013 model, but it can't hurt to look around, right?

Glitz & Grits weekend {via iphone}

Sometimes I am in love with my iphone...I love that I use it as my watch, (video)camera, calculator, bank, facebook updater, twitter-er, for heytelling, mapquesting, checking the weather, pandora-ing, looking at the tv guide, and sending emails. Not to mention any question I might have about anything at all can be answered with my intellegent little phone....but (we all knew there was going to be a but) when I don't take my camera to events because it's "too big" and say "I'll just use my iphone" I am always disappointed that I made that decision. Maybe you don't feel as passionately about photos as I do (to be honest, I don't know many that do), but things in life only happen once and I like to capture them accurately. These photos below show that Cory, Shelley, Tison, and I had a lot of fun at the Glitz & Grits 2011 event at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum on Friday night. It just shows it in a rather blurry way :) The catering was by The Cotton Boll. I had no idea they catered! The Cotton Boll Grill is one of my favorite local homestyle cookin' restaurants. The band looked like they wanted to be somewhere else, but we got out on the dance floor and did our thang.

{Artist George Rodrigue's "Blue Dogs on the Red River" were exhibited at the event, although we must have missed the secret room because we went around the whole circle that is LA St. Exhibit Museum and didn't see one blue dog painting! 40 pieces will remain up through the end of the year so I suppose I will have to make a trip back}.

{I know, I know- we are adorable...}

{cake balls = big hit}

{"doin' our thang"}

{and Shelley and I rolled away in this...}

Louisiana Swamp Stomp...

Have you seen this? Have you heard about this?

Dr. Paul McCarthy just dropped of my copy of the newly released Louisiana Swamp Stomp. Dr. McCarthy is (pretty much) solely responsible for the project. Through his great effort to gather the featured Louisiana based musicians, this collection of LA Blues also benefits a good cause!  All proceeds go towards the Northern Louisiana Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Foundation which seeks to raise public awareness of brain and spinal cord injuries.  This project was inspired by Buddy Flett and Carol Fran, two Louisiana musicians who have recently had neurological injuries.

The CD includes artists such as:

Percy Sledge and the Aces Band

Larry Garner

Dewayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers

Lil Buck Sinegal

Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr

Little Freddie King
Henry Gray

Carol Fran

David Egan

Charlene Howard

Buddy Flett

Omar Coleman (w/ Billy Flynn, Bob Stroger, Kenny Smith)

&

Sonny Landreth

Interested in learning more??

Visit brain help for more information.

 

I am listening to it now and I gotta tell you- It is making me want crawfish and hush puppies!