Tolentreasures

Sometimes the best days are not epic!  They are ordinary days.  Magical, ordinary days. Days spent doing exactly what you like to do even if no one else understands!  I had one of those yesterday.    Lots of little projects and  not allowing myself  to see  "what really needs done"  and letting it spoil the day!    I spray painted this chandelier.  Ready to hang today... more on that in another post.    Sprayed this mirror and finished cleaning and decorating the hallway.      Almost have the kitchen finished.  Logan visited me to show me his  hunting attire for  turkey hunting today.     Dinner napkin valance on the front door. I scrubbed the front porch at the camp,  tidied, spruced, decorated, and it is ready for Jenn's party tonight, almost... JWS cooked that awesome meal above and  ...

While perusing through my pictures  this morning,  I found some things I hadn't shared.  This was a whim project after being at  Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse.   Most of the letters were found there,  some I had, some I made.  I think that I might make more.. it was fun!   Shipped off to Gracelyn and Garren's toy room!   I know that this is hard to see in the picture. This is an old display case that I have had around for years.  I had an old fur collar off an old wool coat that I laid in there first and then arranged all my pins, So many keepsakes in there. Alligator pins that my dad bought for me in Florida when I was little, A pin of my grandmothers, and one belonging to JWS' grandmother. My old Brownie and Girl Scout pins. A great-great aunt's pin, one made by a friend... Memories. I made these pillows for Gracelyn and Kenda...

The idea was for them to make some of their Christmas presents. And it worked... with some help from Grandma. Preparation. First I had to bleach these trees, because even in my "let them try it" world, bleach and anyone under 10 is not a good mixture. Well really, I have had more than a few bleach disasters from ten to 54, but we aren't going there today. Off to a YouTube video because you can learn anything on YouTube. That precious woman crafting in her organized perfect craft room dipping one tree at a time in a vintage glass holding her measured bleach mixture... Yeah right. Fill up the sink, glug, glug some bleach into it, and toss in the trees. In true crafter ADD, I poured myself a cup of coffee, wiped off the counter and turned around..... and they were bleached. That over-organized crafter on YouTube was doing a lot of dipping and waiting. But then, she measured. A quick rinse,...