Pretty things...

When we brought dad to the lancaster museum in Nanton last weekend I just had to take a quick peek in a couple of the antique stores there... found this little jem... I can't wait for the room to be finished so that I can put some fresh flowers in it!  

Shit picture I know but I was just trying to grab a quick snap of the whole bottle... it even has a glass lid...

Love love love the crown on the jar lid!  And it just fits so well with the other elements that I've collected for the front room....

Okay and one more shot of the lid...

LOVE IT!  I plan on getting this room together this weekend... I even have the grocery list already made and we're going to go get the groceries tomorrow evening... yeah, Friday evening...  Once the weekend starts I don't want to leave the house at all... except for my hair appointment at 2 on Saturday... my regrowth is just out of hand now...  Anyway... I think Friday night we're also going to grab the large blinds for the front room so thats done and out of the way and the blinds in the house are complete... the sun pours in there and I'm starting to worry that its going to fade my swedish couch!.. not that I want to block out the sun completely... I've found in the front rooms upstairs that if you turn the blinds up just enough you can block the direct sunlight (from turning the house into a sauna) and the room is still full of sun and bright... win win!  Once the room is mostly back together then I have to decide if we're going to put curtains back up in the front windows... I think they'd be nice to have in the winter to help warm up the room... but what about in the summer?  Just a plain sheer?    

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Can't wait for tomorrow... Show & Tell Friday... what will I snap tonight to be ready for the morning!?.

Stormy night...

Well it was more like stormy evening... WOW... it came out of no where... blistering wind and rain and hail... when it was starting and I looked out my back window it looked like a wave was coming down the Deerfoot... it was crazy...

I've never uploaded a video to my blog before... hopefully it works... its only two seconds long... Its a shot out the front window...  Don't mind the mess in the front room there - its in the process of the redo... Once I get the chairs done that room is going to come together quick... I have just about all of the elements together for there now...

Oh and our street started flooding... water was just pouring out of the alley...

And just because I just took a photo of my new sweater to send to my friend Jirrian... I wish I'da worn jeans today... I think jeans are okay at work (on other days than Friday) as long as you're being stylish... but the jeans pic below is from a Friday... maybe I'll brave jeans tomorrow with a new top and some nice high shoes...

Got skinny pants and boots on today... Here's a closeup of the sweater... its from H&M...

The beady detail is jut on the top half of the shirt... and the cut of the shirt feels sorta 50's.  I think it would be better with jeans though...

Back to the Wingbacks...

I got back to the chairs yesterday evening... I can't wait for this coming long weekend... I don't care how nice it is outside... I'm staying in until these puppies are done, and the front room is back together... then all that'll be left in there is to make a few pillows, some things for the walls and to pick up a fern, to put into the little cage thing that I picked up...  All of the pieces are cut out for the chairs... the only sewing left are three of the wing pieces... I cut them all out yesterday and assembled one... I'm not liking the piping on that one piece so I might try to sew it over once more closer to the piping, or I'll take it apart and resew the piece together... I knew the wings would be the trickiest... but someone did it originally for the chair so I should be able to redo it!

I've just tacked the fabric onto the chair here with a couple staples so that I wouldn't have to hold the pieces on while trying to take a couple pictures... The foam is going to be replaced... along with that black piece of light fabric that is covering the back springs... it'll be that nice cream that you see on the seat part where the seat cushion is going to go... I know it'll be inside but it'll be nice and consistent all the way through... I plan on putting a layer of batting over all of the foam as well to make the chairs a little more plush and full looking...

I think they're going to be pretty sharp once they're complete!  

Show & Tell Friday...

Been busy this week... the Poppa is visiting us this week!  A last minute surprise visit... so I haven't spent any time working on the chairs or anything else really... and I didn't get a chance to get snaps of an item for my Friday Show & Tell but I do have photos of these sweet pillows that I made this past Christmas for some friends...

I made four of these - one had a rufle, two had this rick rack boarder and I think I left one trimless...  I had a picture of the three others together but can't seem to find it on my computer or phone... I swear I just saw it the other day... 

Here is a close up of the little owl... everyone loved their pillows... now to start thinking about what to make for friends and family this Christmas!

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Here's a shot of my birthday kicks... and here is another...

Just learned to make a mosaic...

Perhaps its really lame that I didn't know how people made these mosaics... but I just googled it and found out... super sweet!  Earlier post from this morning below...  check out my golf ball photo...

Back to the grind...

Oh back into the full swing of the work week... weekends need to be longer... Just one day longer would be perfect... luckily today I'm laying out an invitation at work so that little bit of creativity in my workday is good... I wish I had to use more creative energy at work... Here is a snap for the invite that I took last night...

I didn't have good lamps to use to set up some proper lighting, and the balls are so reflective and shiny that they were all glare from the lights in the room and the daylight outside... solution?.. one of those sweet light boxes that you can get for around $100 for photographing small things... but I don't have one so I set them up on a white dish next to the big picture window in the front living room, tossed a white sheet over myself and the balls, like a tent, and voila!  More even light!

Oh Birthdays...

Saturday morning Chris and I had to do the tiniest bit of tidying in the house because dad was arriving at lunch, as a birthday surprise!.. after we tidied we went out for some birthday shopping... found some jeans and a sweet shirt... oh AND a birdhouse and this other bird type cagey ornament thingamajig... then we picked up dad at the airport and headed to Galaxy Diner for some late breakfast/lunch...

I found a pile of decorative pieces for the front living room this past weekend!  The green birdcage is going to get a couple coats of cream paint... and then find its way up to the Yellow Room.  The eggy shaped cage with the bird on the top is going to get some moss and birds eggs I think...  Then I found this one Friday afternoon:

The little pot inside the crown is removable... The nest I found on Sunday, at Golden ACre (not in a tree)... I was thinking of something bigger but this one fits in perfectly... Then I also found these at Golden Acre on Sunday...

Sweet little piece of glassware and set of keys... they had bigger keys too... might have to go back and get those...

And finally this super tall bell jar...

So this room's accessories are just about complete...  I think once I have the chairs done and in place with the table... and the other little table painted and placed I'll have to find a lamp for the corner... then some wall decor, which I'll make... and then perhaps a fern... and something for underneath the tall bell jar... a plant?  a pile of teacups?  Oooo and I want to crochet a few different size doilies to place on the table that you see in the picture directly above...  I'm hoping to finish one of the chairs next Sunday and get the second one stripped and the legs painted... I picked up paste wax yesterday to wax the legs of the chair that I'm working on now... I just have to give them a light sand to smooth out the paint and then a couple coats of wax...