Tolentreasures

You will need: Assorted liner brushes #4 lettering brush or #4 flat brush Assorted Star and Snowflake Stencils Cosmetic Sponge Wedges Decoart Americana Black Khaki Tan Slate Gray Bleached Sand Light Cinnamon Surface of choice, basecoated Black. As always, these are suggestions. Get something close and don't worry if they are not EXACTLY the same colors. I am always perusing the stencil aisle in any craft shop. There are well used stencils hanging all over the bulletin board in my painting room. You can't beat a stencil for adding perfect shaped stars to a project. You can always shade and highlight them to make them look painted, but it sure is a lot easier to stencil them than to try to draw or trace them. There are quite a few snowflake ones hanging there also. Yours don't have to be the same, get creative! I love cosmetic wedges for stenciling. Just a little hint, the ones from Dollar Tree are not quite dense enough. Upgrade to the discount chain ones. Frugal as I am,...

Ok, I meant to do this earlier. A couple of more finished projects from yesterday. A spring towel. And two more balls for the boys room. But this is what held me up. A little unseasonal, but real easy and fun to do. Watch for the tutorial tomorrow... or tonight maybe. I was warned to be at work on time. Really?  I have been going a little later. but, the last three nights, I have been there late. Doesn't that count? And as I am typing this, my phone is beeping. What could they possibly want?  It's tough living with your co-worker/husband/thinks he's the boss person! 

Finally finished this. Girls, Girls, Girls Wonderful Band Concert Mail from Sheila. Thanks so much! Shelby loved it. Snow in February. Added more details Painted for boys. Three finished scarves. A finished rug. Pot of chili for the week. Tyler's Basketball Practice. Dinner with Friends. Laundry is done. Church on Sunday. A visit with Kendall and Shelby. A wonderful gift. Three words will not work here. Shelby wrote a book as she calls it. Twenty some pages of our/her life so far. She gave it to my Sunday afternoon and I read it Sunday night. What a gift. So many memories and hearing them from her point of view was amazing. I laughed. I cried, I will treasure it forever! And now, on to another work week! Monday, here I come.

Before we start, here are the warnings. THERE IS NO LINE DRAWING! THE COLORS ARE FLEXIBLE! THE BRUSHES ARE SUGGESTIONS! OK, that being said.... Relax and have fun with this. I used: #2 long liner 1/2 " glaze wash brush #4 round brush. Paints Decoart Americana Khaki Tan or Sable Brown or any other beige. Bleached Sand Light Cinnamon Black Antique Gold Avocado Midnight Blue Russet or Background color of choice Blanket color of choice Any long skinny wood item would work for this. Measure out where you want the checkered border. Paint that area with Bleached White and shade the edges. Allow to dry and then tape the area that you want to remain white, and then paint back over the tape. Below you will see those steps from left to right. Repainting over that seals the tape and does not allow the next color to seep under. It makes for a really clean edge. I painted the top Russet. The bottom can be sponged or crackled or distressed and can be any color. At this point you can cut a pi...

Or otherwise known as, The Ramblings of a Crazy Woman So here goes, To start with, the pic above is the start of a tutorial that I will be posting later today or tomorrow or well, I have good intentions. It will be for these sheep, when it happens. To start with, this is totally being blamed on day seven of Prednisone. Can't sleep, but on the up side, I don't think that I have been mean at all. That might be yet to come. But then again, it might be due to too much on my mind, and a little too much to do, which I am trying to work through quietly while JWS slumbers peacefully. So to start, and this was a success so far this er.. morning, night whatever it is. Gmail I think that I managed to get all my personal stuff. Blogger Pinterest Facebook switched to Gmail. Truthfully, there was too much jamming up my work email. It really needed separated. Plus, I could not get my other email on my phone. Gmail seems to work. One thing done, hopefully. Second, yesterday I finally realiz...

Well, not quite, but I did get this finished and am going to once again make a stab at offering items on my selling blog. Bear with me, I never really fully mastered what to do over there! Come on over and visit! Tolentreasures Depot New offerings daily? Yeah, right!