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Showing posts with label where i create. Show all posts
Showing posts with label where i create. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Where I Create #2

The redo is coming right along. I've had Love Bunny put up a couple of big shelves on the wall but I want to do the placement of some other little shelves I've had for years. Having the walls without the other plastic shelving makes a lot of "bottom" room for me to put up a table to craft on. I'll make a skirt for it later. I had my 40 year old Kenmore sewing machine on the new folding card table after having it on that little blue vintage student desk for probably 35 years but I just couldn't sew on it! Just didn't feel right. I love my old blue desk. Do you have some similar feeling for something like this that you simply cannot give up or substituting something newer just doesn't quite cut it? Of course, it's going to be white someday but too cold outside right now to paint it until spring.

This little 2 tiered shelf came from our master bath. It was beside the garden tub. I can put something else in there so this is going on the sewing/craft room wall.

This shelf can hold sewing supplies. I'm making this the sewing side because of the window and the light I need to sew properly. Plus I'll need more room for the craft side because I have enough crafting junk to last a lifetime or 2 Mormons to last ooooh maybe 22 minutes- 20 minutes if they're using the low temp glue gun! Most are much craftier than me. ;-)

They told me when I joined the church that I wasn't a true Mormon until I could bake bread, had a glue gun, a serger, a van, plant a garden and could can a year's supply of fruit and veggies from said garden during the hottest month of the year here in the desert, paint a tole figure to stick in my front yard commemorating each holiday and do freezer jam and done my genealogy back to Adam.

I hate vans, have a serger (comes in handy), cannot for the life of me bake bread even in my bread maker, have only one sign attached to my porch and that tells the solicitors to "back off" because I'm armed to the teeth, buy my fruits and veggies in cases/cans when they're 3 for a dollar as it's much cheaper for just me and hubs and only have genealogy for me, hubs and our 2 kids! I do, however, buy jams at WM and store them in the freezer. Does this count, ya think?!?!?Just let them try to throw me out of the church. You wanna see hair fly! And yes, I'm Christian...... Just trying to "perfect" myself one moment at a time but in my case it may take a bit longer. :-)


Here's the 2 shelves hubs put up for me. High, but I can reach them.

These 4 shelves are awaiting my decision on where/how to place them. This is the craft side.


This closet would scare ya to death if you could see inside, chickees! I'll need to clean it out at some point soon but for right now what ya can't see doesn't hurt ya! Yeah yeah, I know but I simply can't think about it until hubs gets more boxes outta the trunk of my car to put this "stuff" into and then he has time to haul it to the garage attic. This second part may take until the second coming. And then maybe not even then if hubs has his way or in other words (his) "why bother then?" *Sigh*............

You can still see I have 2 folding tables to use or not use but they're just a mite too long to put next to the sewing table to the right just under that window.
My current "dilemma" is how I should arrange those shelves. Anyone got any suggestions? You see what I've got, just give me some suggestions on how to place the 5 of them on the wall. I'm brain dead at this point!

I'm one of those people that has to have everything in "order" for me to create, paint or sew. This has not been the case with this house for a couple of months now and it won't be until the rest of this house is painted pink inside. The painter comes in a couple of days to do the living room, kitchen and dining area. I can hardly contain myself. ;-) I'll need to spend the evening prior to getting the decor off the walls and moving everything towards the center of the room. Maybe after that I can do some things that have been in my head for a very long time. It's time! *Sigh*..........



Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Changes in Where I Create

If you have read my blog for any length of time you know I've been painting my house pink but especially my sewing/craft room and my office/painting room. They're pinker than the rest of the main rooms are going to be but everything will still be pink. In doing them one at a time it gives me more time to take everything down and put it back up without a HUGE mess in this 1800 sq.ft. house. I don't like having chaos in my life if I can, at any cost, avoid it.

In doing that I haven't put everything back on the walls yet. I'm "thinking" on it before I do it. Well, I did put a few things up and I'm "rethinking" them! So indulge me a minute, please, and let me digress for just a moment.

I was at a blog site a day or so ago and saw a couple of gingerbread houses—the regular small ones. I thought of a friend of mine whose hubby makes them and asked her if I could show you a couple of them. She agreed so I'm putting them below for you to see. NOW, we're talking GINGERBREAD houses!! Yes, these are huge. The one in the second photo is 85 lbs, chicks. He has won 3 awards and is on his way to winning another one this year. Have you ever seen anything like this? He's meticulous in doing this and I think quite an artist.

Not sure what this is a replica of but look at its detail.

St. Ignatius School in Ohio.

This one is a replica of a chateau in France owned by Yves St. Laurent's. That's supposed to be ivy on the front. Isn't that spectacular?


This one is a Masonic Temple in Ohio
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Now on to my office/painting room. I'd call it an office/studio but I'm not good enough of an artist to call my humble abode "studio." Anyway, I had the roses paper lanterns over the vintage school desk but someone said they thought they would look better over the window seat. I think I've always agreed with that, just been too lazy to change them and waiting for more inspiration to "HIT" me. It hasn't yet! But I did change them from one side of the room to over the window seat and I really like the way they look.

From here to............

Before

.............After
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I think it was Sharon who was recovering a footstool she bought for $1.00 at a garage sale. It was a leather one and wasn't as bad as one I redid. Okay, now, I don't want to steal anyone's thunder and I certainly don't want to be described as someone with bad taste but I think I absolutely deserve the prize for "most drastic or dramatic change" in refurbishing. Take a look at this footstool in our family room and I can't even claim I bought it at a garage sale to redo; I actually had the "bad taste" to have bought this and a chair like it in the early 70s. I plead "tastelessness" for even considering buying such a piece of work! The things we do when we're young! Sheeeesh.....

Underneath

Refurbished with my cover on it that I made a couple of years ago.


I also received another MEME to post. This one has come from Miss Linda and she wants to know six random facts about me. I think you'd love visiting with her also. She has lovely white furniture with cats! I can't believe it but she does. So again I want anyone reading this to put six facts on their blog and notify me when you do so I can come and read your "deep, dark" secrets also. :-) Please don't be shy. I truly will read your posts and leave a comment if you let me know you've done this.

Fact #1: I memorize numbers. When going down the street I'll look at license plates and try to remember them so I'll know my friends when I see them in their cars and can wave hello. I think this is a symptom of my OCD!!

Fact #2: I got sick one night and threw up all over my hubby's chest. Yes, I did. But he's such a sweetheart he just cleaned me up and put me back to bed.

Fact #3: I look in the mirror and at my driver's license and see my motherrrrrrr!!!

Fact #4: I absolutely love LOVE LoVe donuts and pastries! If I could live on them I would but I'd weight 5,000#! Don't even tempt me. I ate chocolate covered donuts when I was pregnant with my daughter and gained about 40# with her.

Fact #5: I am not a party girl or social animal but am married to one.....uuuuhhhh, a social animal. He loves parties and socializing and I hate it. I'd much rather be at home reading, blogging or crafting or even doing housework than socializing. I do love lunches with a few people though.

Fact #6: I hide my hubs' magazines regulary and don't tell him. I usually make him look for them, but I have been known to forget hiding them and then they're discovered weeks or months down the road! I have to be extra special to him for him to forget my lapse!

There you have it: The Life and Times of a Boring Housewife! Hah........

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Where I Create!

Desk is painted and done. Well, I need to touch it up in some spots underneath where I will be sitting. But I've hung the paper lanterns where they will stay. I need to get some shelves back up but I'm not putting them all back in this room because I'll be redoing the craft/sewing room next and some will go in there. Then my roses wallies should be coming in a day or so and those will go up. "Next" does not mean in a few days! That might take a bit longer in there.
;-)<--------me winking at ya!

I'm tired from crawling around on my knees and painting. Gonna go read a mystery....