Weekend Decorating

It's been the most beautiful weekend here in Roanoke. Patrick grilled both days and I did a little redecorating. Shopping at home is the best.

Saturday morning, he got up before I did so he made coffee and brought it to me in bed. So I went through some crafty books I had beside the bed. At the end of one book was this funky rooster print. I ripped it out carefully and put it in a frame and put it in the kitchen. I had been wanting something with roosters or chickens for over the sink and this just fit the bill...and it was FREE! (oops, I see my paint brushes are still sitting by the sink. I painted a little box for the bathroom..you'll see the little dolly sitting on it.)



What makes them funky? I don't know if you can see in the pic (maybe if you click on it?), but one rooster is zebra striped and the other has leopard spots. hehe



Combining my prim leanings with Patrick's Folk Art, I have this corner that I'm calling Funky Prim. lol I'm not so sure about that little pic in the corner. I took it from the bathroom and just stuck it there but I have a feeling it will come down in the morning.



This is my little project table in the kitchen. There are a few things sitting there that will become, hopefully, prim decorations. Well, and Patrick's shirt in the top tier that needs ironed. :)



This is the newest thing, just done this evening. I want to paint the rack black but in the meantime, it fills a space that was lacking. The stitchery is one of my new flour sack dishcloths that I stitched this summer. Tonight I coffee dyed it and it's still drying as you see it in the pic. I plan to paint those little stars black and fill them with yummy prim things.



This is the little table in the bathroom. I had to stand in the bathtub to take this. lol The little doll is one that Sherrie Nordgren threw in when Judie bought the sweetie up above for me. She had her in a really cute little purple Halloween dress. I carefully took it off of her for now so I can use her in a not-halloween setting. I covered her with a little crochet doily I made. It was fun walking around the apartment to see what I could make "prim." I'm pretty happy with it right now.



I brought the garden bench in. It just barely fits beside the toilet. The basket that's sitting on it holds our extra tp. I'm seriously considering tea or coffee dying that curtain and maybe the shower curtain which is equally white. The stitchery over the toilet is the one I used for my blog background.

There's a lot more I want to do to the bathroom but for now, I'm much happier with it than I was.

That's it for me this weekend. It was a great one. My son Mike's girlfriend drove in from college and visited with us and that was nice. As I said, Patrick grilled, so we had yummy food and it was so warm we've had the windows open.

What a nice November gift!

Peace Day

Today is the day that the Blog Blast for Peace phenomena takes place once again.

I completely forgot until early this morning, while still in bed, that I should make a post today.

I've been spending a lot of time watching discussions about Morgan Dana Harrington, pictured on my sidebar. In a way, it seems to sum up the way I see the world in relation to peace.

There are a few sleuths who are dedicated to bringing Morgan home. They don't care why she left the arena. They don't care how short her skirt was. They don't care if she was or wasn't drinking, smoking, taking drugs and they don't care what her intentions were. All they care about is figuring out how to find Morgan so she can come home. To me, they are the true peacemakers.

They outnumber the naysayers, the ones who assume the worst, the ones who want to judge Morgan's friends, parents, and Morgan herself. Those people are like mosquitoes buzzing around annoying everyone else while they're trying to make headway.

That's a very simplistic view, I know, but how much more complicated is it, really?

In this world we have people who hold a vision of how life can be; a grand vision. These people want to get together and bang out ideas on how to make that vision a reality.

Then there are the mosquitoes buzzing around saying it can never happen and then they begin to lay blame and point fingers and explain just why it can never happen.

I believe the peacemakers outnumber the mosquitoes.

I wish Morgan's family peace, love, strength and hope. I wish the same for Morgan as I hold out hope that she is alive and wants to come home.

I wish it for us all.

Look at my cool new bowls!

I hope Janene doesn't mind that I stole her pic. hehe

She's having a wonderful sale over on her blog and her prices are just unbelievable so go check it out.

I'm buying these bowls. I'm so excited! I've been looking for these for months and they are always just too expensive to buy even one. Our GW never has these. I think we have too many ebay sellers around who run in and buy everything up to resell. Now I get three!

I was debating yesterday, trying to figure out something I could sell real fast so I could get these. lol Then Patrick said, "you work hard, you should get what you want!" Aww see why I love him so? I'm spoiled rotten.

Anyway, she has a bunch more stuff so go check it out.

New Stitchery

Yesterday was such a nice, relaxing day. I worked on a few projects, including this stitchery. I finished it last night while we bounced between the World Series and the Texas games.

Now I have to decide whether I want to frame it or stitch it into something, like a pillow tuck or ornie. It's kind of a shame to put it behind glass when it smells so good after coffee/vanilla/cinnamon staining it. The pattern is from Twigs n Sprigs.

After Zeke got tired of snuggling with us, I looked over and saw him snuggling with these prim chicks. He was asleep but I woke him up grabbing the camera.

These are just a few shots I took around the apartment while I had my camera out for the stitchery this morning.

Happy Halloween!

Prim Fever Again

Today I went with Patrick to our newest client's store. I was taking pictures to use for their logos and web graphics. Oh my goodness! It completely restored my prim obsession.



The store is called Oh My Stars and is in Salem, VA.



If this were smell-o-blog, you would be in heaven right now. The candle that permeated the store was made by a local and was in, what looked like, a coffee can that had been grubbed up.



I didn't want to leave the store. Of course, I came home wanting to decorate in the prim style again. I was a good girl and did my work first, but all this evening I've been dragging out my prim stitcheries and such and redecorating.

Patrick saw it coming. While we were in the store I said, "You know I have to go home and redecorate now." He said, "I know." :D

Prim is the only kind of art and decorating that just comes naturally to me. I don't know what it is but I don't have to spend tons of time looking at everyone else's stuff to get it. (though I still spend tons of time looking at everyone else's stuff, just because it's fun!)

I've decided to embrace it. I changed my etsy shop back to prim and I'm going to be making some things to go in there. As I looked around Oh My Stars, I saw so many stitcheries that could have been "mine" and I realized it makes sense for me to make those things and sell them. Plus, I just love them. Especially this time of year when we desire a sense of coziness.

So, that explains the new blog background after I had just changed it. Like I said, I'm going to embrace it.

Yes, I have a hippy, new age, woo-woo side but there is something about primitive that just feels natural to me. So why not just go with it, right? It seems to be my nature to go "whole hog" once I like something. That's probably why I always get burnt out. ha!

I have a feeling I'm going to go to sleep tonight with visions of homespun in my head and it's going to be very difficult to make myself sit at the computer doing my work when I want to be making stuff and redecorating!

A Few Pics from HTC Festival

A few of my SoulCollage cards hanging in the gallery. You may recognize some of Lani Kent's work hanging as well. Mine were not for sale but the beautiful Lani donated a lot of art and sold quite a bit.

New friends. :)

It was an interesting week.

I know I look like I have a come-over. Shush.

I took so many pictures but I won't bore you with all of them. They will probably make their way to flickr eventually.

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