All I really want to say is THANK YOU. To my faithful bloggy pals, Danielle, Kendall, Sophee and Laurel and heck why not... Danay you too. You stuck in there for a good while! This has been a great year and I have loved waking up and waiting til your posts "go live" and I get to read about your lives and your plans and dreams and thoughts. Love you all.

AND THEN... THANK YOU to our readers! We appreciate you thinking we're cool enough to keep up with :) I had big plans for this 2012 "FINALE" but as usual I get too busy and a less grand expression appears. However, I do have big plans for projects next year.

In the works right now....
- Antique desk redo

- funky nasty bench redo

-- Crap room turns real room:

Developments:
- stamp collection to be sold in my shop
- Disperse some of these cards & grow the biz!

- Vintage looking guest book

Hopes and dreams:
- keep working on the house, Bedroom (curtains! any suggestions?) and office are next on the list!

Want this rug! for the living room!

Last but not least... Downton Abbey starts!

Love you all!!!!!!!!! See you next year! 

REVERSE! REVERSE!

WELL. Life is crazy. One minute were moving to malaysia the next minute were staying put. Instead of going overseas, Rob got a new job! Soo forget that post. hahah. 

Laurels computer broke so Im filling in. Look at her new business cards she let me design!!

Also about to start the new year cards... for those who couldn't get it together for Xmas! 

Papertherapyshop.etsy.com

NEXT WEEK IS OUR LAST WEEK!!!!!!!!! 

Join us as we wrap up this crazy year of Sunday Hatch Blog times! 

Songs

At work, I sit and listen to Pandora all day and have come across some goodies. I think watching videos messes up the song but this is the best way to do it. So push play and look away.




Whhhaaaat? How did Tswift get in there twice? So weird. Hope you didn't watch the videos (especially 99 problems, one of those 99 probs is that video) and enjoyed the tunes. I think if I listen to any more folk music I'm going to grow a beard and a cabin in appalachia and start drinking mountain dew.

-Danielle G. 

Its official

We are indeed moving to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We will basically live in a hotel. Im not complaining. Im leaving my new house and my precious baby dogs behind.

LET THE THE LISTS BEGIN!

BOOKS TO READ:
-Poisonwood Bible
-A Prayer for Owen Meany
-One Thousand White Women
- The Education of the Little Tree
-The happiness project
-A widow for one year
-HOME
-Little Bee
(please comment to tell me your must reads!)

FOOD:
Learn to cook native dishes
Vegetarian for a year
No Alcohol for a year ( Im terrified of getting migraines over there)

WORK:
Make and Sell Invites consistently
Volunteer time doing something

RELIGION:
Learn the intent of Gods sending us there
Understand the person of Christ within this culture
Understand the hidden christian persecution
Learn about Islam
pray. a lot.

LIFE GOALS:
Write an article and get it published.... maybe Relevant? Remember that guy?
Write/start a children's book
---"Lola the HUNGRY wiener dog" ??

GENERALITIES:
Hang out with Monkeys
I want to say get tan but get tan = more wrinkles on my face.
Buy awesome earrings for Cari
Daily Skype with Lola

TRAVEL:
Go to Bali and rent a cheap house cause Elizabeth Gilbert did
Go to Thailand lantern festival (#8 on this list)
Meet Austin friends in Australia
Make Courtney come see me/ Go see her in Ireland

If you know anything that needs to be added please let me know!

Transition

Get ready for a bigger word to picture ratio from me today. Yesterday, a family of 5 moved into our upstairs. Well, really 7, the mom is pregnant with twins. They are missionaries for the Katy House of Prayer and gave up everything they owned for the call of serving the community this way. Their faith ASTOUNDS me. They moved everything in, in about 7 minutes. Doesn't that sound like a dream move from heaven? Let switch gears for a second:

Different Gear (were getting on the highway) Since I moved from Lubbock in 2008 I have lived in 8 different places. Thats a lot for 4 years. 2.5 of those were married moving everywhere. Its catching up with me. Im very much a home body and its like that part of myself has been neglected with rippling  effects... of restlessness. In the book After the boxes are unpacked, it says it takes women around 2 years to fully adjust to a new place. (in searching for this book link I found there is even a support group for moving women!) Obviously if there are going to be books and support groups about it... there is some realness to my feelings.

Same Gear (different paragraph) I have recently been attached to Gilmore Girls... all over again. Rob hates this show, and so did I until my roommate in college (House 1 of 8) forced it on me everyday. Eventually the witty banter was too clever to resist. They replay the season everyday at 10 on ABC Family. ANYWAY... I finally figured out why I love it so much. I'm jealous of their routines. She lives in the same house, and its so cozy and lived in, they go to Luke's every morning for coffee. People know them and they know people. She owns her own business, which means she has to stay put.

In between gears! Car is violently shaking!: Rob applied for an exchange program last March to go to Woking (near London), or Aberdeen, Scotland for a year. We found out we were't chosen and bought a house the next day. About a month ago, his work decided to open another exchange spot in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia... and Rob was next on the list. If we are going... we leave in January for a year and transition yet again to a whole new everything. Yes it sounds amazing and will probably be amazing, but I still have my inner homebody screaming at me NO! we just got here! We are waiting on one more crucial piece of info before its final and I will have to tell my homebody self to shut up for another while.

Pit stop at Grandmas: Over thanksgiving we went to Rob's grandma's house. MamaCoy and I got up before everyone else and sat talking one morning over coffee about all of this. She talked about how hard moving is and how she moved over and over again, and how nice it was to finally settle. It was good to be heard and to realize this is a very gender specific thing.

Drive to dealership and trade for an automatic: The potential move is the reason we have a family living upstairs... with nothing, they needed everything in our house. Perfect right!? But really the bigger testament is the mom pregnant with twins willing to transition more than I have in the last 4 years in 1 year for the call of Christ, not comfort. And that puts it all in perspective. I don't think homebody Danielle is evil, in fact, I think that she is just part of the collective womanhood. But if we are sent to Malaysia... then there is a reason, a God reason, that I will seek out and will learn to re-prioritize my need for comfort and safety.

If you would like to know more about the family and their mission please go here.

-Danielle G. 

It's Beginning

to look a lot like Christmas. It feels early every year no? Oh well. I can't resist me some charlie brown songs anyway. We (the blogstresses) are taking the rest of the week off for Thankgiving... so I leave you with

My goals for this week:

1. Read and finish 2 books {this one and this one}
2. Not eat THAT much, its not fair that I gained 7 lbs before thanksgiving :/
3. Make more invites for the store
4. Figure out what to do with myself in 2013! {ideas welcomed}

I leave you with my mornings creation...

can be found here

... AND check these printables and T-Gives tree idea

 (via JonesDesignCompany - whom I LOVE) 

super cute, and free!

DIY "I DO"

I had very few friends in my time in Fort Worth, but one of them is Chelsie. We were the behaviorizing duo of Birdville ISD!! She asked me to help on a few things for her wedding. I immediately recruited the creative mind and wedding planning skills of Laurel. THANK GOD. Laurel even came to houston to help me. The following are pictures of the crafting process... (pretend you can hear the Pasty Cline pandora station in the background...)

Please know these supplies were not easily obtained. I was harassed by 2 elderly women about when it was my turn to cut fabric. #grannysgotagun

Usually Lola is my helper, but Sam wanted to see how much of the fabric she could put her body on.

 Tie to kitchen chairs and BEGIN!

Still Observing

 And Wah-Lah! A perfect backdrop to a country wedding! (test run in the back yard)

THE ACTUAL WEDDING:

Candy Apples with Stick Handles... CUTE... I sadly had no part in this idea

Polaroid "Photobooth" Dawning of New Day Font

WHEAT! Got a huge bunch for cheap at Home Goods!

Her mom and aunts did her flowers :) 

Laurel feeling very serious about the chalkboard work I did... Chalk is difficult. 

We wore basically the same thing on accident. And I look like Im 11. 

          

Chelsie won this old chalkboard at an auction! 

I would like to say how jealous I am that instagram happened 6 months after my wedding... Check out some of the insta-beauties Chelsie and Jerrett LYDAY got at their hashtag #cheeseburgerandfrenchfries

tired

I am just exhausted. Like sitting at church during a sermon tired. you know what I'm talking about.

I do have great projects to show you that Laurel and I worked on this weekend for a friend's wedding... NEXT week so stayed tuned but for now... take a nap. A blog nap.

Also Im too tired to resize these pictures or link them back.
If you need their source search pinterest: "tired"

Love me some Targ...et! (I screamed the "et" part)

So Old Danielle (Danielle Runyan) is out being pregnant today so I, New Danielle, am taking over. 

I went to Target yesterday for a myriad of reasons... that I am not fully disclosing.. 

Here are some clues:

Two of these, yet fun, is like "whoa..." to my brain, but probably like "whoa, yeah!" to younger brains...

Purple Pathwork

If there were two of these, twin size in a room, would there be too much orange? They are more sophisticated and much cheaper than the above... (hook em' \m/ )

Orange Bedding

Then there's me who just looks at pinterest and dreams in gray and white... and I actually want:

via

So we'll see what happens. I need to turn the crap room into a bedroom for 2 girls (age 10+) like this weekend. Have you seen my crap room lately? 

Anyone bored and want to come play? Can I entice you with a journey through IKEA? Oh yeah and the budget is like $100. AND it hasn't been painted in 20 years. Really cute. 

-Danielle G.

Mission: Baby Shepherd Shower

My bible study gals and I threw another one of our members a baby shower on Saturday. A BRUNCH. Don't you just feel like a better person thinking about brunch?! Here are some pictures of that... and then I got obsessed with my camera and flowers... so theres some extra shots in here as well.