Hello Bloggers,

It has been awhile, but I have just been so busy planning and planning and more planning. Have a few happy occasions coming up, busy planning my mothers 65th birthday celebration for 2014. My husband is turning 55 in January looking forward to that celebration, but God is good. I really love staying busy keeps your mind going and focused. Also been very busy doing house and my mom kitchen makeover....love it pictures to follow. I have been involved in Leukemia walk light the night with hubby and best friend we have been doing the 5K walk for 2 years now. Enjoyed decorating my job for 1st annual harvest fair which was great. Learned that selfies pictures is actually going to be in the Webster dictionary who knew (see below). Just enjoying my new church family Upper Room Christian church. Lots going on, Although never loosing focus of Gods Love.


So blogger lovelies have a Happy Thanksgiving and a Blessed time with family and friends.

xoxox Trina...

                                         Leukemia light the night walk Eisenhower park.

                                                                  " Selfie"

                                                Decorating Job for Harvest Fair

       Book signing with Melissa Gorga what a great woman so gracious and friendly a true author.

My creative juices are flowing. I was going through items in my home; because I just re-decorated the living room and foyer. I had all these vases and mirrors that I had purchased when I first built the house and they were sitting and not being used. You know how when you first move into a home, apartment, condo and you want to buy everything you see?? but when you have finally come off the roller-coaster and get the décor you really want, guess what your stuck with trinkets....

Here are some creative ideas I did with my trinkets. The candy dish was a matte gray and I spray painted it shiny black, and the mirror was a green color spray painted that a shiny black also, and now they adorn my office at work... So my trinkets became valuable items that everyone who comes in my office now wants....go figure.

all my equipment in my office is black, computer, fax, phone, file cabinets so these precious lovely items blended right in with the décor.

My wonderful husband and I celebrated 4 years of marriage. I know you are probably saying we are still newlyweds, but the past 2 years of our marriage has been amazing. Our relationship has metamorphosed into such a great friendship rather than husband and wife. Of course we are living a blessed married union and loving every minute, but we are best friends. In the 4 years course of our marriage we have planned a wedding, construction on our home, and removed our selves from negative people. Just the construction on the home alone is enough to have a relationship go sour. Making decisions on what is needed and what is not needed for the home you tend to lock horns. But through it all and despite all the set backs, upsets and wrongful talk against us, we are still faithfully and truly in LOVE. I could not have been blessed with a better life, the life that God has blessed us with is truly a gift from God, and we treasure it daily.

Decorating your home and life...

Hello Bloggers and viewers,

I have taken sometime off,I lost my beloved father on June 28th, 2013 and have just been reflecting on everything that transpired during my time of bereavement. So I am doing well and blessed, have the peace of God surrounding me and just plan old happy. I recently decided to change a few things in my home, I guess just adding a few pops of color will change your homes decoration theme. My home is my haven of peace and happiness, I love coming home and just relaxing and being with my husband sitting in the livingroom, chillin out in the back yard or taking a stroll through our beautiful neighborhood. So when I started wanting change in my life, i said "Trina change your atmosphere also", don't get me wrong I loved the way my home is decorated, but now I love it even better. It's like being in Love with God, I love him som much that I want more and more of Him, so you start to make changes within yourself. You start with YOU and work from the inside out. Having this great relationship with God has definately taking me to another level in my spiritual walk. I started speaking different, acting different and even looking different, because guess what I love God and myself. Just like my home I loved being with my God and myself. I know that God only wants the best for me and every trial and tribulation took my higher. After my Dad passed I have to admit I was a angry with life, I could not understand why this had to happen, my relationship with my dad had just grown. Why God??? but through it all God blessed me, and through it all God kept me, so I still have a praise inside of me (lyrics from a song), but that's my testimony. So the pictures below are of my "pop" of color in my home, and my "pop" of happiness and peace in my life. Thank you Jesus!!

Thais was the chairs before we sparay painted them to match our patio set, what a great find Home Depot $31.00 each the ugly blue color just didnt go with our decor.

and this is the finish product...the table we spray painted and the umbrella base was an antique find right next door from my neightbor FREE...

This area in my back yard is my Bistro set...Love this area with some coffee and book....

                                   so here is my "pop" of color in my livingroom just added a few differtent pillows and a slip cover over an chair.

 I kept the turgouise color theme in the living room not alot, just a little here and there.

Pops of red in the kitchen...and my home made pasta sauce recipe courtesy of my newest best friend Linda Carullo..Love her and she cooks so darn good.

More color on the fire place.....love ginger jars they are so decorative.

So I did my kitchen island with these great plate settings.....

 Make your home a haven of peace and enjoy every minute of it.

Be Blessed....

Crumbs.

^{My Husband and I were doing our regular feeding of the birds down by the water were we live. So relaxing we visit their every weekend to relax and distress from work week. It’s something about feeding the birds that relaxes us we also pray & spend time together. As we pulled up the birds were resting, but as soon as we got out the car they rose to their feet.  As we were breaking up the bread the birds they flapped their wings with glee. They were eating and enjoying the bread, though some were flying and catching the bread in the air as we threw it to them: the others were waiting for the crumbs to drop. My husband said to me look at the others who are just waiting for the crumbs to drop. I could not believe what I was seeing,  it reminded of the scripture Mark 7:27-28 were the woman spoke to Jesus and replied “even the small pups under the table eat the scraps”.  What an awesome story, to thank God for the crumbs. The story ended with her daughter being healed, because of the mother’s faith. In the woman's reponse we not only see the deepest humility present, but the most amazing faith. She believes that even the smallest of crumbs that falls from God's table is sufficient for her needs. Do we honestly questions ourselves and say "Lord me humble myself and have faith that your will  - will be done in my life; what ever you are standing in need of seek the Lord. There are thigns that my husband and I believed God for; and God moved on the situation. Recently I received an increase at work, though it may not have been six figures it was definately and substantle increase of what I was making 6 months ago. I am happy and I Thank God everyday because it could be worse. I could be looking for a job  or not have employment for sometime but waiting. Sometimes we have to humble ourselves and take the crumbs, have faith that God will give the whole loaf.}

 Mark 7:27-28 And He said to her, First let the children be fed, for it is not becoming or proper or right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the [little house] dogs. But she answered Him, Yes, Lord, yet even the small pups under the table eat the little children’s scraps of food.