Skywatch Friday

Gabriel in Profile

This photo was taken yesterday, shortly before Gabe got his hair cut. He has been wanting an "edge up", and had just shown me a "fine" example on google images of Channing Tatum.  He has been working this " gel up in the front" hair do for about a month now and was decidedly ready for a change. Lol.
Today I picked up my cell phone and was scanning through photos.  He had taken several shots of himself post cut and added them to my gallery.  He told me last night that he thought a lot of girls might think he was cute with this new hair cut. I said "I think a lot of girls think your cute any way Gabe."  Pleased, he walked away. 

Spring Flowers

Hazy Morning Sunrise

Celebrating Skywatch Friday

Rugby Stripe Coffee Table

We picked up this coffee table at Savers and gave it a sporty re-style.  First it was primed with spray paint, and then hand painted with a black chalk paint.  The taupe stripes were added and then it was distressed( the fun part) and waxed with a dark wax.  Love how it turned out!  It is such a great piece with the collapsible sides.

First Day of Spring

Free and Trendy

Last week I was browsing the "free" column on Craig's List. I came upon an offer of four free Colonial Chairs that had been posted 6 minutes earlier. I grabbed my land line and called. Score! We went to pick them up the next morn.; only a short 25 minute drive away in a picturesque little town on a river in a large restored historic colonial across from the congregational church and diagonal to the town green. Good thing I am mostly visual, as I lost the generous man's phone number and address and was relying on the few details he had given my in our very short phone conversation. The chairs had already been restored at least once, and in the process of packing them in the back of my minivan we damaged two, but not badly. I have started a business re-styling and up cycling used furniture. It has been about two months, and along with my business partner we just may have moved into the black! We are loving this: hunting down pieces and rescuing, re imagining and reviving them and then hopefully selling them to a deserving customer who likes our "re-style". I have seriously been dreaming about furniture each night. We decided we would each keep one of these free chairs for our own.
I sanded mine down, gave it a coat of grey spray primer and then a top coat of metallic nickel spray paint, distressed it moderately with a hand sander and then waxed it with a dark wax that smells like oranges. Nate Burkus was on the Today Show this week and said that metallics are trending in home decor. Who knew, but its perfect! My free chair is now metallic! I placed it below my thrift store antique gold mirror with a little bronze pillow I made from a Pier I place matt. Too much metallic?

New to the Neighborhood

Skywatch

Before and After

Yellow Snapdragons

Skywatch Friday

Wordless Wednesday

Sunrise, Sunrise

Stuck

We have a grocery store in town that occasionally has flowers for a discounted price. I have been hitting the jack-pot there all week. Runuculus and snap dragons for $1.00 a bunch! Are you kidding me? I picked some up and brought them to my grandmother this morning on my way home from working out. She seemed very pleased, but overall sad. She told/asked me if she could get out of the nursing home and go back to her old place which was assisted living. She didn't like it there, and begged to go to a nursing home. She continues to thrive and simultaneously hate her existence. My grandmother is depressed, physically healthy, and stuck. Stuck in a nursing home, stuck in this realm and only beginning, at 94 to lose her mind. I think that sometimes mindlessness may not be such a bad thing. It is so sad. Sad, sad, sad. I tried to set her up a little schedule for the day. Recently she has given up reading, something she has loved her whole long life. We picked out a book for her to start, I got her an xanaxx from the nurse and then I wrote down the time and channel of the Oscar's Red Carpet show for her to watch in the eve. Hopefully she will.


http://lisaschaos.com/snails-and-snow-macro-monday/ I am joining in with Lisa and friends for Macro Monday. Enjoy!

Remnants of Valentines Day

Just Three Words

My daughter is filling out scholarship applications. She asked me and her littler brothers three words to describe her. We decided that Aubrie is kind, and friendly, and intelligent and caring and tolerant........ She is tolerant for sure. When your Mom asks you to go pose for a photo in the bathroom behind the new curtain she just put up; and your able to do this and keep a straight face, that's tolerance. She certainly has the ability to remain calm when those around her are losing their minds( I think that may be a Rudyard Kipling para phrase)or at least acting mindless, which is how I could describe the chaos in our home at any given moment. Presently she sits quietly on the couch, lost in the family kindle (a PTO raffle win!) She is reading her third book of this February vacation week. Her youngest brothers run through the house hurling physical and mental insults at each other, one fending off a bloody nose from a recent pillow fight. She sits, lost in the bliss of a really good book. Good for you honey! I hug her a lot lately, already missing her and wondering what it will be like when she is away at college and I am home with three boys and a husband.

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Wordless Wednesday

The Boxer

In a clearing stands a boxer
and a fighter by his trade
and he carries the reminders
of every glove that laid him
down and cut him till he cried out in his
anger and his shame "I am leaving, I am leaving"
but the fighter still remains...

Rest in Peace
Grampy Dyer

Before and After

I have been working diligently along with a friend. We are starting a business re-styling older pieces of furniture. This was one of our first pieces, purchased at the Salvation Army in town that is sadly closing soon. I think we paid only $4.00! A can of spray paint later and then a little distressing and a dark wax, a long with a re-purposed Target shower curtain, this is our result. A little funky, a little girly maybe, and little whimsical. We are hoping to sell some furniture soon, but so far are really enjoying the creative process.

The Picnik is Over

Picnik is leaving! My favorite, nearly free editing spot will cease to exist in April. This makes me so sad. I need to find a replacement soon. Any suggestions??

http://pullingmymaskoff.blogspot.com/ linking some place new :)