Bed Crown

I wanted a bed crown..Nothing too big.. but boy are they expensive.. SO I found a  french county  wire planter at hobby lobby, painted and antiqued it to match my bed I painted , and added some tulle netting. Then I took 2 decorative coat hooks and painted them..hung them horizontal to hold  the tulle back. I have been working on about  20 projects, lots of painting decks, walkways, cement  drive..even our  electric pole. I am finally getting some of t hem finished.. Rained on my  fresh paint more than once.. I was just  spinning my wheels  on projects..but they are  coming together now.

kitchen cabinet redo

The house was built with a window over the sink.Then we had a garage added...and all we saw out the window was the side of the garage..we totally blocked it of, and added a cabinet over the sink for more storage....then kitchen was too dark, so we opened the lower part of the window.. then later..after I saw the  awesome Chandelier.. we decided to open the window all the way up.. cut the back out of the glass door cabinet..and added some awesome Waterford cut look crystal film, that makes nice prisms of color sparkle thru. LOVE it. SO here are the pictures of while the house was being built..to during all the changes..and NOW.

Mini Chandelier

OH I saw this beauty with all the sparkle..and knew it would be the icing on the cake in my kitchen.. And believe me.. cooking, baking & cleaning are way more fun with sparkly "mood" light above your head. THE only problem, when  I got the light..it gave me the idea to revamp the kitchen..again ! I will show you that project NEXT>>  BUT for now here is the mini chandie.. I sewed it a chain cozy to hide ugly chain..and now she sparkles like diamonds above me while I bake or work! 

My "To DO" list

Yes I have one... always have one.. I can't live with out a list.. I enjoy completing a job so I can mark it OFF..sometimes  I do a chore.. and write it ON the list after I do it..so I can mark it off.. Here it is June..and due to so much travel back and forth to Utah do to family health issues.. my list is growing and I can't mark stuff off.. Don is going to have to go back to Utah soon to be with his dear Mom and family, I am going to take a break and stay home the next trip..and work on my LIST.. I have some interesting and fun projects I want to do. Repaint my mailbox, sew a mermaid "costume"  to display over an old oar.. for the stair well. Oh her fin is going to be most awesome.. Need to paint some new shutters, since we reopened the kitchen window this week..we totally closed it in several years ago when we had the garage added..We didn't want to look at a garage from the kitchen sink..it was right there in our face.. BUT we opened the lower part of the window back up, and added some awesome Waterford crystal look window film to distort the shape of the garage,,and let prisms of light in.. NICE.. so we had added a glass door cabinet over the sink.when we closed that window up.. This week we opened the entire window.. cut the back out of the glass front cabinet and now light comes all the way in the window thru the glass doors.. I am waiting for UPS to bring the waterford crystal film I need to help distort the garage again..lol.. The mini chandelier got hung in the kitchen..I have to hang all the pretty sparkles on it today..and I can post a pix of it.. SO come back often the next  few weeks.. I will be posting my projects !! I have missed my BLOG.. but I am BACK with a fire in me..ready to get stuff done..

Birthday gifts galore !

Here are some of  the sweetest gifts I got this year. The ruffled apron, brown and pink fabric with tiny sparkly flecks in it.. Bernie sent it to me, made by her sister Michelle..and the hot pink "pearl" necklace... She knows  how to accessorize ! I whipped up some cookies and it was fun to be all frilly in the retro apron. I love the little OOH LA LA plate on the counter next to the PINK floral mixer..NOW that's cooking !  I also was standing next to the picture of me in my Easter dress from when I was a kid..and  above it  u can see the PINK glittery sign with a mini tiara that says THE QUEEN REIGNS HERE.. YES she does.. and OHHH sista chic Deb from New Jersey sent me the  bling bling Birthday Girl Goblet..yes.. I do drink my fizzy Dr. Pepper out of it. And sista chic Robin from Tennessee sent me the  sweetest scrap book album/journal that's too pretty for me to scrawl my chicken scratch writing in.... among some other sweet gifts.. Thank u all for thinking of me... Love u !

Life IS a bed of Roses !

Yes.. a  my bed is roses.. and precious in pink. I found this old head board/ foot board for $26  years ago.. It was rusty as heck...but some paint and some beautiful roses.. Sis Robin sent me a gift card to purchase these last year  when I lost my dear Mother. SO now that they have taken hold and grown, I get to enjoy them and think of Sis Robin and my Mother..who so loved roses. And the dogwood and Red bud trees we planted in her memory from a gift card sent from my Big Brother friends at the same time did so well and bloomed recently.. Thanks to you all for all your kindness during a hard time for me last year. Time does heal all wounds. BUT  you all have a special memory in my heart forever.

Beach winter ends, home for spring !

After spending Jan-March at the beach in Florida, we arrived home..and within 10 minutes of stepping thru our door we had news we needed to get to Utah to be with Dons Mom who was in the hospital.. Thankfully she was able to go back home within a week, and she's continuing her chemo. She is one tuff cookie, bless her heart. We got snowed on while we were there for 2 weeks..and just got home this past Sunday.. things sure got green and started to bloom while we were gone. I missed some of the bulbs blooming in my rose bed, but the roses are setting on buds. The neighbors wisteria is in bloom, OHHH so awesome..thought I needed one, until I saw the HUGE bees it attracts..I will admire it from a distance. The redbuds and dogwoods are blooming now too. Sure is looking pretty here. Hope it's looking like spring where you are !