A Little of This, And a Little of That!

As you can see I posted some photos of some crafts I did. I wish they photographed better. I love working with new supplies but since I haven't really gotten any new stuff lately to work with, I used some supplies I had. The little green wire chair had (at one time) a ceramic planter in it but it broke. I certainly couldn't part with such a cute little chair (I have a thing for little chairs) so I found the galvanized wash bucket to fit and worked from there. It's very spring-ish not prim but I will find a place for it! The little rocking chair I had gotten many years ago from a catalog called Collections Etc. It originally had little resin cats sitting on the arms of the chair and was a little planter. One of the ceramic cats got damaged over time so I removed them and redid my little rocker. I put that in the parlor room. I think it's sweet.

What I do love doing is painting wooden items. I had gotten a couple of these wooden benches from AC Moore, and I painted this one in sage green and white and used rub on transfers of strawberries for decoration. I also made the little decoration that sits upon it. My favorite one I painted is more the colors that I love~~~burgundy and black. I'll show that one next time. I have two Amish dolls sitting upon it. Before we tore down our ranch and built this house in its place, my kitchen was decorated in 1950's reds with cherries and strawberries. The little green and white bench would have been perfect for it. It was a cheery, cherry kitchen. This house is all earth tones and prims and country. I found my true calling of colors in this house~~warm and cozy. I love burgundys, blacks, tans, mustard. They just call to me!

I do know what supplies I want from Michaels! I was there recently and they have really expanded their supply of prim "details". Lots of rusty ornaments in all sizes, some nice wooden items to paint, a better selection of folk art paints and alot more. I was making a mental list of items I want so when Billy finishes constructing my craft room, I can fill 'er up!

Speaking of Billy, he has been coming home with some amazing finds. He's been working for several weeks for a great family that sold their older home and is moving into another older home on the same road! He did wood floors in their new home, and has been building window seats and bookcases, and now he's gonna start building them a new basement. He was also completing some things in the house that they sold such as taking apart their old treehouse (which will now be OUR new tree house :)~~~but here is what is special. He has been coming home with some great things that the family has discarded from their old house. He brought the "works" of an electric fireplace that gives off heat, a ton of candles, a really big log holder (we needed that), some great big coffee mugs with matching little plates, beautiful storybooks and even a couple of outdoor statues of bunnies! All stuff they didn't want anymore! Even though I have a real fireplace, I was excited about the electric one cause Bill is going to build a cabinet or a little hearth for it and we can put it in any room here. I was excited! I also love that he knows to bring the stuff home to ME rather than let it go into the dumpster at the house!

That's about it for me. Caitlin wanted to bake a cake for the Presidents (Washington & Lincoln) since they explained in her kindergarten class that they have a week off celebrating "President's Week" aka Winter Recess. We have it every February. Since it's their birthday, they needed cake! I hope Lincoln and Washington would have liked Pillsbury Funfetti with chocolate icing!