Hello... I am new to blogging so I'm not sure where to start. My name is Chris. I'm 42 years old and live in a very small town in Western Kentucky. A beautiful little town called Cerulean. It used to be a resort town in the early 1900's. (back then it was called Cerulean Springs but the post office dropped the Springs part many years ago) The cerulean blue colored spring water was believed back then to have medicinal purposes and people rode the train from miles around to drink and bathe in the water and stay at the huge hotel that used to be here. The hotel is long gone and now it's just a sleepy little rural farming community and a great place to live. And the spring water is still "cerulean" blue.
Here is a postcard of the hotel around the turn of the century.
We bought an old abandoned house and two acres here about 15 years ago and have re-furbished it slowly but surely. When we purchased it my main goal was to bring it back to "original" but to live comfortably and to accommodate all the things you had to have (water heaters, heating and cooling systems etc) we had to make some changes. Plus when you have a husband who is into every modern new anything that comes out, you have to make some compromises. In the end, it all worked out and we have a beautiful house that still has alot of it's "old" charm with a lot of modern conviences that I don't know how I could live without. We built a new kitchen, gutted EVERY single room, re-wired, re-finished floors, built new porches...you name it, we did it. All we had was a shell of a houseand we just built it back ONE ROOM AT A TIME....and we're still building. It seems like it's never ending some days , but thankfully we enjoy it and my husband has the talent and the know how to make it all work. It has been a true labor of love.
This is the house a few years ago. I'll post more pictures later.
Here is the link to my eBay items http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZthecherrychicQQfrppZ50QQfsopZ2QQfsooZ2QQrdZ0
And here is the link for my Etsy store.
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5680656
Make sure to check them out. I'll post more tomorrow.
