Sunshine & Beach time

A great day on the beach yesterday. Did some reading on the beach and also took a walk on the beach. Tomorrow is shopping day.. it's going to be cloudy..I hear the mall calling me.. Bed, bath and beyond, etc. looks like 70's hit on Tues. yea.... Time to go home soon.. April 1st will be here soon. BUT after 3 months of the beach it will be good to get back to a routine. Good to be at the beach today.. I saw the lake house got 10 inches of snow today.. white sandy beach beats that any day !

Old White table..

I have had this little white table for 35 years..it was originally stained cherry. Then I painted it shabby chic.. well I recently added the blue & pink and antiqued over it. I plan to mosaic the top some rainy day...when & if I get caught up on my list of projects. We only have two more weeks here at the beach..then back home to work on my list. I am soooo looking forward to diggin in and seeing how much I can get done. I am a list maker... I take satisfaction in seeing things marked off a list.

Little Miss Ugly Makeover

This $6 chair had some great potential... I love the trash to treasure finds !

Last project before heading Back to the Beach

Here are the after pic... I knew she had good bones.. She is now in my art studio. When we get back home from the beach I can start some sewing.. Too many projects, too much running back and forth to the beach this winter. Trying to follow the sun... Not so easy during El Nino !

A Little beach time

With this crazy winter we got in a few beach days. here is the wall we walk past that is filled with shells..as the sand gets blown off or washes off with a wave, shells are exposed.. free for the picking ...after a few nice days on the beach it turned off cold so we drove back to the lake to try to find some nice weather there..it was pretty for a couple days and then turned of cool.. GRR.. Where ever we go..the weather hates us this year. Like a friend said .."You are going to wear out a car trying to figure out where u want to be this winter. We will head back to the beach Tues. for our last 2 weeks.. Then we head home April 1.. We are looking forward to spring at the lake...IF it arrives. Once we are home again I just want to dig back into all my projects. So crossing our fingers for two weeks at the beach in SUN !

Projects for April

When we leave the beach in April I will dive right in when we get home to do some new stuff in the craft room. I never cared for the fabric in there, but it was all I could find last spring, so I made do. Since then, a new vision, and found a new fabric outlet. While we were home last week I went up to Pryor to the Fabri-cut outlet. I couldn't decide on which fabric for my table skirt and curtain valances, so I got both. One for summer and one for winter. My plan is to be able to swap them all out very easily, by using some knobs in an interesting way. YOU will have to wait for that vision too. But by doing both my chairs in there in neutral cream brocade fabric that will make it all the better to swap out for seasons. Here's a peek at my fabrics and those are the pink enamel draw knobs I am going to use, fingers crossed the vision works. We know they don't always. But that's not a problem. Where there's a will, there's a way! Remeber, my walls are pink, with a crisp white paneling on the lower walls. I think it will be easy to pull off using the teal fabric in summer and the french country blue stripe in winter. I have already used those blues in the room with the pink. I can see it ! CAN YOU ?

Detour

The weather at the beach thru us a curve, and we got stir crazy, so headed to the lake house for a little Detour. We must be part gypsy..cuz we can sit still inside to long with out the need for a road trip..hey..it was only 15 hour drive,cranked up the tunes,hit the road. The positive is we got to sleep in our own bed for a week, drop off the shopping I had accumulated, and left the truck there and brought the bug back to the beach.. Today I did my rain dance here at the beach. I went out on the balcony with sunscreen streaked on my face like war-paint and did a SUN Dance, not to be confused with my Rain Dance that always works at the lake. SO let the sun and heat hit us ! While we were home I got this cute table from our neighbor Tuffy.. I heard it call me..so I snapped it up and painted it. I think it will be perfect on the covered porch to my round lounger this summer. Oh to be layin in the heat and humidity reading a book and a fizzy DR. Pepper at my side. SO the beach better get to cooking soon. I know everyone has had a long hard winter..and just our luck to rent the condo for 3 months in winter and have a record cold one! Oh well , we know when we get here for Sept. & Oct. it will be warm, well it always has been! This is our first time as snowbirds here.. we think we may need to go further south next winter.

At least while we were home for a few days this table got re-finished.. and I ran across an old chair for my craft room too. It's refinished too and waiting for me to re-cover the seat, and add some foo-foo flowers to it. BUT you won't see that till April !