Squirrel! RED, BLACK and WHITE Ahead.....
Have you ever seen UP, that wonderful animation about...
Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner), a 78-year-old balloon salesman, is about to fulfill a lifelong dream. Tying thousands of balloons to his house, he flies away to the South American wilderness. But curmudgeonly Carl's worst nightmare comes true when he discovers a little boy named Russell is a stowaway aboard the balloon-powered house. Wellll there is this DOG, they call him DUG, he is full of energy and talks ( like a human) ... he gets a bit sidetracked when he sees an IMAGINATIVE Squirrel ....WELLLLLLL that is me when I see something IN RED, BLACK and WHITE......
Not surprising I would have a RED door....well it has been Black, Taupe, Orange and even Robins Egg...but RED seems to suit me best... WEll it was time for a new wreath... I like to change them over the summer so this is what I came up with.....Of course somewhere there had to be a GINGHAM one...Again RBD's gingham...Is there really any other? So I designed 3 of them with materials I had on hand and some burlap that was just waiting to be made into bows... Now which one is on my door presently - is anyone's guess ?
SQUIRREL!
And then last week I went to an auction picked this lamp up for $4 or $5.00 cannot remember exactly...but I saw potential.... I really needed a small lamp for our kitchen window sill.
So I painted it all black with a flat black paint....Now painting over a ceramic glaze can be a challenge, so I took my finger and rubbed white ELMERS glue all over the cup, waited till dry, sanded it off with a fine sandpaper, I then sprayed it with some Flat Black from Tremclad...great paint if you ask me... Came out perfectly..
And then the shade...welllllll, it had to have a gingham shade, so I took the same Elmers glue brushed it all over the shade and cut out a pattern for the shade in yes you guessed GINGHAM from RBD and just laid it on and VOILA..... my perfect lamp suitable for my kitchen window sill.. And those glass jars are all of my FAV teas that were a perfect birthday gift.... There is a Cranberry Pomegranate, a love Anytime Tea that has almond in it and a lovely Chai that is to absolutely DIE for...
I am going to keep taking photos of them so she will know when they need refilling...wink...
SQUIRREL
I needed some groceries ( today) which was yesterday when you read this... And I did that successfully and I was about to go straight home when I saw our local Antique shop lady with a sign NEW STUFF... So I went in......Of course.....
LOOK at what I found ...this amazing IRON knotted chair, that just beckoned to come home with me.... ( I believe they were called ice cream parlour chairs, this one is a tall one)
I did not even hesitate ....I was not home 10 minutes, ( put away all the groceries) and went looking for my quart of TREMBLED paint, FIRE ENGINE RED, and brush....could not find one....Soooooo, I took one of my makeup brushes.. needed a new one anyway and gave it, its first coat..
It will likely need another but it needs 24 hours between ...Sooooo I will give it another coat tomorrow ... And then I will place a beautiful Boston l FERN in the SEAT area... Did you see it's twisted feet?
Will show more later this week as we complete our very large outdoor project!
I did manage to complete another ME TIME that Cori designed.. my first one went on a Tammy Bag and this one will be going on a footstool... this one I did in taupes and reds and CASHMERE for Sumatra, who can always be found close by.... She is quite large, I enlarged it 100% and I think she is beautiful.
SQUIRREL
Our all white garden is turning from greens... possibly next week it will be in full bloom... We finally have buds ....and at the end are my WHITE lilacs..they are pretty... they just opened this morning... All those tall bushes are viburnums and there are some trees too..they are in the forefront.. WElll by next weekend they will be in full bloom.. YOu can see all the light green balls...those will all be white.. YOU won't be able to get me off our deck....
This is the back of our yard...most of the trees still just have buds..within a week YOU will not be able to see anything but a wall of GREEN.... and lots of white at the back...we have many shrubs and trees and annuals that will be popping up... We always have something red in our garden...that chair in the corner is one David made a few years ago...gives you an idea how vast our forest is..
SQUIRREL
Sumatra responds to that word too..she gave me this look..."WHERE IS THE SQUIRREL?" she makes me laugh so much.... WE are such a team....
I think that does it for me...there are no more SQUIRRELS, at least at the moment that are going to keep me from our next task...more on that real soon..
Our deck has been power-washed, we will be re-staining it all in a different colour, we have a pergola being built and I will be sewing the fabric for the topper with grommets ....lot's of sewing this weekend... by Tuesday all of our soil will be turned and new top soil and mulch will be added and then I can plant all of my seedlings too...so the next 4 days it will be a SQUIRREL of activity..
TOODLES....
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