This year I decided I wanted to find

the importance in the mundane,

the beauty in the everyday,

the little things that I couldn't live with out.

Basically, I want to be truly thankful for my life and every aspect that I've been blessed with.

I decided to do a post on Instragram each day all under the hashtag #thankful.

Sometimes I feel kinda cheesy but doing this really makes me think throughout the entire day about all the things that I'm thankful for. It has been more of a challenge choosing just one each day.

I think it would be great if we could start this every week.

How about y'all start finding what YOUR thankful for tag me @gracielathrop and use the hashtag #KTAthankful.

Then every Friday we can do a week recap right here on the blog to share with everyone!!

Here is a recap of my #thankful challenge.

DAY 1: Thankful for a handy and crafty husband.

DAY 2: Thankful for soft tissues and Chapstick

DAY 3: Thankful for breakfast in bed :)

DAY 4: thankful that I can be home in 2 hours

DAY 5: Thankful for a dirt road lifestyle.

DAY 6: Thankful for car rides and 2 hours to hold hands.

DAY 7: Thankful that my options today are to paint some scarves or cuddle in bed and read.

DAY 8: thankful for our sweet baby Tepe!

DAY 9: Thankful that my tough Reed is the one spoiling our puppy.

DAY 10: Thankful for good friends, puppies and southern winters.

DAY 11: thankful for such a precious sleeper

DAY 12: thankful for a new blogger buddy!

DAY 13: thankful that Christ has died and Christ is risen, Christ will come again!

DAY 14: thankful that school is testing fabric stiffener sculptures.

DAY 15: thankful for late classes and cuddle time on a rainy day

DAY 16: Thankful for hot showers on a rainy day

DAY 17: its small but its my studio! Sooooo thankful!!!

DAY 18: Thankful for nights where I get to be girly!

DAY 19: Thankful that however uncertain my future is I kno wart will always be a part of it.

DAY 20: Thankful that in the darkness Gods light shines!

Alright, from here on out I'm going to do a thankful recap every Friday.

How to play: download the picture you see below (right click to save to your computer, or save image or screenshot on your phone), post it on Instagram to get started! Then when you post your picture each day, simply tag it with #KTAthankful and @gracielathrop so we can see! Each friday I will go through all of the posts from the week and share my favorites!!

Can't wait to see what you guys are thankful for!!

When I was doing the year end review I realized I never shared the photos of our guestroom/studio!!

Here ya go!!

Our teeny tiny house doesn't have room for my art stuff so we had to compromise!

We basically split it in half, with the guest bed on one side and all of my art supplies on the other.

You can see the lack of storage in the picture...

But hey, I've got that awesome armoir!!

Check out how I redid it here!!

Here is a close up of the desk and all its... STUFF.

I've got sooooo much!

I'm hoping to teach myself how to sew so far the closest i've gotten is getting my moms old machine on the desk :)

Here is the other side of the room.

It's just a little less chaotic!

This is probably my favorite part of the room.

This blanket is just so bright and exciting!

I love all of these fabulous pillows, the 2 bright orange and blue ones where made by my cousin and the stitched on is from clearance at Belk!

You can see I've added a little camo and a large bass pillow for Reed :)

A little recap of the corners :)

The cutesy day bed, and my granddaddies armoir!

Another way that I added a little "manly" touch for Reed,

not only the camo and bass pillow.

But also put up some of his animal mounts.

The hog on the right is one that I've never particularly liked, its just so... fearce!

But the duck is beautiful. We just got him done recently and even though he is hung in an awkward place I do love it :)

Well, thats our precious guest room/ studio!

It is usually covered in Reeds camo clothes and my art projects...

But this is what we try to keep it looking like.