Whatcha Work'n on Wednesday!!! ANd a special THANKS To my Aussie Friend... Barb!!

I wish to tell everyone... sorry again for not posting!!
I got a virus... and lost some of puter!! :(
Hubby was very upset... but what can we do...
that is why I haven't been able to post for a bit!!
But am hoping to do much better!!
I have been a real busy beaver around here!!
I am currently working on my basement...
Pictures will be forth coming really soon!!
I have made sooooo much progress down there!!
It used to be just storage for the girls, us, my family,

But NOT any more!! It is my woodworking station,
soon to be my painting/crafting place!
I am going to see if I can get my mom to come
back over and help me get some more outlets
put in!! (She is an electrician!!) YEAHHH!!
Anywho... here is just one pic to wet your
appetite for the basement...

This is my wood pile of cabinet doors, screen,
and some other pieces of wood I am going to
be working on really soon!!
I also have another bench done, and one to
match it laid out to work on!!
But anyway...
I have to show you my hutch redone... but again!!
Think I am finally in love with it!!

here it is... displaying almost all of my crocks...
I got another one over the weekend at an
auction, for 27.50 it was a litlle bowl. I wanted
it really bad!! (Can't you tell by the price???)
This piece is a candleholder I picked up at a
church bazaar last week for 50 cents!

here is the before...

and here is the after...
like everything else around here... BLACK! lol

This project is one I am waiting to tackle
until the weather decides to get nice and stay
there... it is my bedroom ceiling...
the anaglipta wallpaper. (not sure of spelling) lol
Right now it is just the color that the paper was...
it is now time to give it color... it has cured!!!

Tis is what it looks like when I take a pic
without the flash... I like the color better here!!
but still trying to figure out what color to paint it.
What are your thoughts... you can see my
bedroom colors in an earlier post... PLEASE
let me know what you think!!!??????????

as for this pic... this is just a drawing I did
several years ago... and used colored pencils
to color it in...

and as for the lastest sign...
what do you think??? It hangs by

our bed... :D
Oh... On my post I have been planning on doing
for almost over a week... I got a letter in the
mail from a friend in Aussie land, none other than

Barb of http://barbscreations.blogspot.com/,

and I want to tell her, O I am in love with them!!!
Here is the pattern she sent me...

it is for a pipkin... which until I read

Barbs blog... I had never heard of before.
She was a real doll and sent me the pattern
for it!!! I have done two already...
one the afternoon I got the letter!
I went to post... and had the virus...
so I couldn't :( so now I can!!!

this is here letter and all!!
THANKS MY DEAR BARB!!!
this is what they look like all finished!!

DON'T you JUST LOVE IT!!???

Barb dear, I hope I did it right!!
This is what we call batting, and I hope
you call it "wadding" ?? And I wish our
milk cartoons were clear plastic... ours

are kind of a milky color... (pardon the
pun there!!)

I have stictched around outside of the material,
the batting and plastic... (inside)

pulled the treads tight....

and here are my three pieces...
all different so if I didn't you can tell
me which one is wrong. ;)

I sewed the felt to the inside...
one because I didn't have any glue...
and not sure which kind to get anyway...
so I used what I knew... my thread!!
which was the red thread... and then
used the embordiery thread to put it
together with...

I have two of them sewn and now for
the third one...

I hope I am doing this right!!???

and wallha.... I have my second one done!
I think??? Let me know if I need to change
anything... I am waiting patienctly...not!
to do some more for my family that sews!!
And I really do think this HAS to be one
of the CUTEST cozies for a thimble I have ever seen!!
Mine now loves it's new home!!

I hope everyone is have a really productive time...
whatever your doing!! And THANK you again my dear
Barb for this wonderful pipkin!!! :D :D :D :D :D

Live
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take,
but by the moments that take your breath away.
Laugh
A sense of humor can help you tolerate the unpleasant,
cope with the unexpected & smile through the day.
Love
There is one happiness in life to love & be loved!!!

I hope everyone has a wonderfully blessed day!!

Also don't forget to SMILE...
You will get on in return!!!

What I was up to on Friday

I have been having some fun yesterday, so I
thought I would share it.

My fun was in the form of recovering some chairs..
first is the ones I bought at an auction last year.
They looked good, but just not what I wanted,
so I finally got on the stick and got busy.

here is the before

the after.

I forgot to take a before,

But was covered in the blue toile of
this pattern, like this much better.

and this is the back :D

This was actually my first project
for the day, but I saved it for last.
The door, and the side of my buffet needed
some tlc, so here is the putty.
Waiting for it to dry.

the door and the side of buffet.

the door sanded, and the side sanded,

I forgot to flip the side pic, sorry about that. lol
and here is the finished product:

New knobs and everything!! I just love it now!!
I thought I would share with you some of
it's character....

this little black spot...
well I am sure some little boy got into
some sort of trouble over it...
it is a bb hole! lol.

here is another shot, lol,

I made a funny lol, of the hole.

I hope you all enjoyed the projects of the day.
More tomorrow!

Tonite hubby and I go to the Ducks Unlimited Nite,
they are playing Texas Hold'em, and I get to play
too!! Will let you know how it goes...
lol, I only play for fun, so, as long as I enjoy
the company, the chatting and getting to catch
up with those I haven't seen a while, it
will be a hit with me!!
See everyone tomorrow!

Live
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take,
but by the moments that take your breath away.
Laugh
A sense of humor can help you tolerate the unpleasant,
cope with the unexpected & smile through the day.
Love
There is one happiness in life to love & be loved!!!

I hope everyone has a wonderfully blessed day!!

Also don't forget to SMILE...
You will get on in return!!!

I owe blogville a really big apology!!!

I owe blogville a really big apology!!! I am so sorry
to have neglected everyone here!! In my defense...
the weather here has been sooooooo beautiful outside,
that I had to get some time out there, and once I started...
well let's just say, that it wasn't enough! I did get alot of
different things done thou. I am so sorry for forgetting to
blog. I PROMISE to do better! I will do at least 5 minutes
a day from here on out! So please bear with me!

Now for all of the stuff I have gotten done...
First outside...
I have been repainting the milk cans...

Here is just one of the ten.
(Show you more later)
and the other reason I have been
outside...
I have spring coming to visit!!!

Here is just one of the many Bulbs
I have, and it is blooming!!!
Don't you just LOVE Jonquils...
the first to bloom here! :D
I have been working on my front porch too.

our front steps... cement YUCK!

So I am painting them...
Nothing around here is safe from PAINT!

Just getting started... not sure what to do
with the tops as of yet. But going to
paint a saying on the risers of the stairs.

This is a picture of our back door...
I know it is still on my front porch!
(Actually the kitchen door)

and my storage cabinet...
my grandfather built it...
I bought it from an old family
friends auction, a few years ago!
JUST LOVE IT!

Here is my newest thing I am
working on... a peg holder...

or should I say... an old door
stop holder!!! (on the left is my
front door)

Here is the whole corner between the TWO
doors... alot of room huh??

and this is what you get to sit on
when the wind is blowing... You don't even
know it is blowing here! :D

and now for the other side of the front
porch. I now have two more benches there.

(As you can tell... on the butterfly bench...
is a chair I took... fell apart... now to make
something else out of it!)

This is a pic of what my buffet looked like
when I got it... the doors and mirror all taken
apart.

and this is the poor buffet...
all of the drawers need some help...
the bottom of the door compartment...
and of course... some tlc on the piece itself!

Don't you just love the old piece...

Here is my almost finished product!
I have replace the nobs... and now working

on the right door... it needs some wood
filler... and the hinges reattached.
So you will get one more chance of seeing it...
FINISHED!! :D
Now for the candler I have...
I have wanted the beads to be a red and white...
but not been able to find any old necklaces in those
colors... My mom gave me, my grandmothers beads
she used to make (crochet) necklaces... and look what
I did....

All of the white beaded necklaces have been
replaced and now I love it too!!

An up close look!! :D

The wall on the south side of the living room...

and the rest of the way to the front door...
don't you love my new fruit crate...
(0n the shelf behind the couch.)
I have also been painting our bedroom walls...
and they are also finished... for now!
I still not sure of the color... it has a slight
tint of green to it... and I want it too look a tiny
more yellow... not green yellow.

the necklace, belt holder...
(I added finials and doorstops to the
top of the earring holder.

Our new bedspread!! A royal blue
velvet with fringe!! I LOVE IT ALSO!!
The south corner of the room...
my side of the bed!!

The north west side of the bedroom...
this little old dresser with all of it's
loved parts... is one that my grandfather...
my dad's dad, built for us girls one Christmas...
Our daughters know mom likes angels so...
on the shelf in the corner you will notice a
music box angel sits on her perch. :D

And the north east corner of the room...
Hubby's side of the bed...
The color here looks a little too white...
but I promise it isn't! It all used to be

a BRIGHT YELLOW! It reminded me of
sunshine... but hubby thought it was TOO

bright... so here is the toned down version.
sitting on top of the pillows... is my hubby's

valentine's present from four years ago!!
I still love him (hubby) and the bear, just
as much and more as I did the day I gave
him to hubby! :D

Here is the sewing closet in the front
bedroom... Don't look too close...
you will see all of the projects waiting
for me to get too!!!

Here it is... all closed up!
Don't you just love the toile (not sure IF
I spelled this right!!)curtains??? :D
In this bedroom is the kid's toy box...

My grandmother's (mom's mom)...
old sewing trunk, it held all of her quilting
material!! (In May sometime...
this red carpet will be coming out...
to have the hardwood floors beneath
revealed!!!) I can't wait!!!!!! :D :D :D

The twin bed... frame from 400 mile
yard sale... the quilt is the one I won from
the LeRoy Homecoming four years ago.
the trunk is one I bought at an auction this
last fall... with NEW casters on the bottom!!
(I am going to do this too all of the trunks!!)

The bed in the north east corner of the
room... and the shelf I made for the kitchen...
now resides above the bed!

The "shoot for the moon" sign with shelves
that used to be above my desk...
Like them better here!! :D

The south west corner of the room...
behind the door. The dolls on the shelf
were made by my grandmother,

(dad's mom) for both of my girls!
above the dresser is a collage I made

of my mom's things from childhood
to after she married my dad!

She really loved it!! It has pictures...
girl scout badges she got... the wedding

announcement of theirs, her mother's

graduation ceremony, and other stuff too!

And one more shot of the laundry room wall.

I redid the "Laundry Room Drop Your Pants Here"

sign, now I finally love it, and added a shelf!
Trying to decide if I should paint it black

or leave it white... what do you think???

One of the last projects I will show you all,

is my new front door rug! Made from what
else... old linoleum... I now love!! this saying

where it is!! (Needless to say... the old sign
that hung on the wall also got repainted...
but I will show you that one next post!

And finally the tablecloth I made.

It is made from a red and white check
print! I do love it!!!!

Now I PROMISE once again I will post more often...
and keep it up!!! Please forgive me for falling down!
I will do better!!!

I hope everyone has a blessed day!! I know I have been
having plenty of them!!
I also started walking about two miles a day!!
So here is to getting into shape!! :D
I wish you all well! :D

Live
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take,
but by the moments that take your breath away.
Laugh
A sense of humor can help you tolerate the unpleasant,
cope with the unexpected & smile through the day.
Love
There is one happiness in life to love & be loved!!!

I hope everyone has a wonderfully blessed day!!

Also don't forget to SMILE...
You will get on in return!!!