It's time to paint!

Uh, oh.........I've got the paint out again............

Last summer before our daughters wedding we decided

to finally get new carpet.

Well, you know that when you get new carpet

then you need to paint beforehand

and when you paint and get new carpet

then the old furniture looks, well, old.

So I made this decision to paint an accent wall in my hallway

and living room this color:

I happen to really like turquiose, but I just couldn't

seem to make it work.....no matter what I tried.

Yesterday I ended up painting this lovely blue OVER

the turquiose using a faux painting technique that

allows the turquoise to show thru a little.

So this is what the wall looks like now:

I've got a beautiful quilt that this wall will frame nicely!

I've just got to get my son to come over and help me move

furniture around before I start putting stuff on the wall!

Of course you know that this means that I start

all over...........Curtains will need to be changed now...

kitchen paint looks out of place with the new paint

and on and on and on.........

I also managed to finish up this quilt for Gail yesterday.

And just this afternoon I put some quilting stitching on

this quillow for our friends young son who will be 3 years old in August.

Now I"m off to the store to try and match up some silver

thread that I have been using on my Haunted House embroidery.

I sure hope that I can find the same color!

Estate planning

Man o Man, last night my husband drug me to an Estate planning meeting. I did NOT want to go. I wanted to sit at home and watch Dancing with the Stars and work on beading my daughter's wedding veil. Well, I went to the Estate Planning workshop. I was not on my best behavior I'm ashamed to say. So I wasn't kicking and screaming, but I wasn't my usual pleasant self! Basically what I really wanted to do was put my head in the sand. Estate planning is not a very pleasant subject. However..........the meeting was informative and really something that needs to be done. So, grudgingly, I'm glad I went.

Finally my Living room has some color and is not longer only VANILLA! I've also finally found some curtains and some fabric to make a valance!

This is a picture of the accent wall I painted. I also painted over the green wall that I worked so hard on earlier. It just was not ri ght. The new turquoise color is great!

My kids came over on Sunday and we worked on our Halloween costumes. We are going as a group this year! I can't really say what we are going to be just yet, but we sure had a great time working on the project! I always love it when we get together with all the kiddos! Sure do love them! Brian and Jen had just participated in a kick ball game at thier church and Jenny and Rafael had just returned from, yet another and thier final bridal show!

So Many projects.........So little time!

My side yard continues to SLOWLY take shape. The exciting news this weekend is that my husband had added two new water faucets and several electrical outlets along the back fence. I believe that he will also be installing a system where I can do timed watering. I'm hoping that I will be able to have all of this garden in place when the temperature finally dip below 100 degrees! Now you know that if I had DARED to plant actual flowers or vines or ANYTHING it would have withered and died! However you can see that the WEEDS have absolutely NO PROBLEM growing!

You are now looking at the beginning of a wall mural that is being painted in my secret garden area in my side yard. I am hoping to paint a beautiful countryside in between those arches. After the country scene is painted I will be adding vines and flowers on these arches.
Yeah! I finished up the blue and brown baby quilt. My client wanted it to be quilted with circles since her daughter is decorating the nursery with a circle theme.

Below you will see a picture of my current living room wall and the couch that was bought to go in it. As you can see they don't look very good together.
Here is one of my test walls. This is the entry hallway. First I painted it with a very light green and after that completely dried I used a sea sponge dipped into a paint/glaze mixture and sponged the color on the wall. I really liked the results but it was very time-consuming!!!!!

The training of our Betsy-girl continues. She is especially attentive while someone is eating.

Betsy is SURE that Jenny will share................
Jenny is giving Betsy "THE LOOK"

The plans for the wedding continue. My latest project has been making personalized shot glasses for the bridal party. I don't know if you will be able to see it in this photo, but using glass etching cream I added Maid Of Honor, Best Man, Bridesmaid, Groomsman and a name to each of these glasses.

Guess that's it for today. Time to get busy again!