hen I'm not knee deep in piles of laundry or drywall dust, I might be making something fun like....
A "berry" red arrangement from my backyard to my window sill......
Or a cozy paper pennant to go above my kitchen sink.....
Or glittered letter magnets for my kitchen island....
Don't you agree that every once in a while, a girl just has to stop the world and...
What have you creative souls made lately? Please share and inspire me!
I snapped a few shots of my craft room today. Not a ton of progress made in here since the beginning of the year but it's looking a lot better than the before. I'm still loving the robin's egg blue and have found a few ways to incorporate into other parts of the house. LOVING it with RED and WHITE and BROWN!
The little blue thing that you see there near the ceiling at the windows is a snowflake left over from the party, lol. I need to get the big ladder in and take it down. I didn't think to put the switchplate covers back on until *after* I took the photos, either. :)
That old vent needs to be replaced or repainted. At some point, I hope to have a large, tall cubby/shelving unit right there to hold supplies and inventory. We have something like that in the garage and it's so ugly (bright yellow!) but solid wood and very spacious. I'm thinking about adding molding and trim and additional shelving to it as the current cubby holes are very large and could be divided into halves or even thirds. With a beadboard back and then painted out in a fresh, bright white, I think it could be beautiful piece, though. The problem is that it now holds and organizes a lot of things for us in the garage. I would have to do some shuffling and rearranging, for sure.
My project for this week will be painting the stoop and stair treads a deep chocolate brown. The stair faces will be white.
Here is the craft table hubs is working on for me. It needs a little more trim and maybe a wooden applique on the front of the skirt (kind of like what we are putting on our doors, except a little bigger). I will be painting the craft table white and have a glass top to go on it for easy cleanup.
I will be sure to share photos when the steps are completed. I'm excited about chocolate brown and hope it looks as good on the steps as it does in my head!
Wow - thank you all so much for your nice comments about the penguin cake I made back in December! It really was so much fun, but I think it will be a *long* time before I do another!
And thank you for your continued patience with me and my scant blog entries. This is just the way it is in the winter for me. I slooooooow down and basically just take a long winter break. Needless to say, I'm really looking forward to spring.
Hubs brought me some lovely flowers last week and I couldn't help but to start getting excited about springs upcoming arrival. It motivated me to spruce the place up a bit (well, whatever one can do while living in a torn apart fixer, anyway). We recently celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary and as part of the "celebrating", I made a huge turkey dinner for our family day. So it was nice having the place come a live and seem a little spring like, especially on our special day. The weather was unusually warm, too - in the mid-60's that day!
Here are a few shots one little vignette...Come on spring!
Oh, and just for fun...here is the turkey spread from that night. We're *still* eating leftovers a week later! I think I was most excited about the rolls - I found an awesome recipe that I'll try to share soon. I LOVE my bread machine (see it below on the cooler?). Even though it basically just kneaded the roll ingredients together, it saves me so much time. And for loaves of bread, I just love how it does everything, baking and all. Wouldn't trade it for anything!
I put the girls in charge of decorating and setting the table. They did a great job, don't you think?!
There are still a few snowflakes hanging from our ceiling from our party in December. The kids wanted to leave them up, but I'm slowly, one by one, pulling them down:) We made about a hundred of them - can you imagine!
I hope everyone has a great week!
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