Tolentreasures

This was the final item in my procrastinator's challenge. I painted this for my granddaughter's toy room. Ann at A Hole in the Basket is having this challenge and it is fun to see what everyone has been procrastinating on and getting done. I finished this a took it to my daughter's house last night. These are a couple of name plaques for the room also. You will see that there is an extra....she needs to get busy and get another "name" for this one. I have one other item finished for the Little Princess but that is a surprise both for her and her Mom so I won't be posting it until after the birthday party My trip begins in an hour. We are to be at the church and loaded and ready to leave by 11, our flight is at 2:55, about a 3 1/2 hour flight, 2 to 3 hour bus ride, we should arrive at the mission center around 9 this evening. It is long day of traveling but I am thankful that it is a non-stop flight anyway. We fly into Punta Cana in the Dominican Re...

Have you any wool? Yes sir, Yes sir, Three Bags Full! I was "talking" to my painting ladies at our Yahoo Group and while many of our conversations don't really involve painting, I was so excited about my visit to Goodwill this afternoon so I had to tell them about the Three Bags Full of wool! It just made my think of that rhyme! It was quarter day at Goodwill and all these great finds only cost me $11.50. Two of the sportcoats were half price and everything else that I got was .25. Great finds and all 100% wool. Now I wish I had the time to wash them and cut them up. I love to do that, but I still have to pack for my trip and I still have to finish the Princess' birthday gifts. Her party is a mere 12 hours after I get back from my trip and while I am a procrastinator, I don't think that I want to push it that close! Off to paint!

My third six weeks of pottery classes started last week after being cancelled the first week because of the weather. The first six weeks was several years ago and my daughter and I took the class together. The second six weeks was this past fall and mother and daughter friends of mine had given the gift of the class to me for the work that I did for the daughter's wedding. Now the daughter makes great items, large bowls, plates, vases and pots, functional and decorative items...hey she's young, they are so much easier to teach, right? My daughter, after all in the first six weeks did much nicer projects than I did. So the third six weeks begins and my goal is to make something bigger than a toothpick holder or ranch dip container. Anything that I could possibly either eat cereal out of or have a cup of coffee out of (and not expresso). The first week comes and goes and I have something that might hold ketchup or 16 Hershey kisses as a candy dish, now I am not even getti...

Thanks Natalie for the award and thanks for the tech support on how to add it to the post! A true techie you are! PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships. These blogs are extremely charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly written text into the body of their award." Thanks Natalie for thinking of me, I am honored!

First of all there was the inspiration. My daughter wants to redo a downstairs bedroom for the Princess for a toy room. She has been wanting a set of bookshelves for the room and I bought a set at Michael's and have had them sitting there waiting for some type of inspiration. She told me that she would like to do the room sort of primitive, old toy, primary colors. She reminded me of this toy that has been around our house for a long time and said, "sort of like that" Now before I actually painted the shelf, I wanted to make sure that our minds were working in the same direction...off to the stash to see what I could paint that would be functional in the room, should she like it. This is what I found. I had bought two of these at a yard sale for $2 each. I had painted one in my craft show life and sold it. I have used this one the way it is to tote paints around and so I thought this would work. I found the plaques in another stash. The words on this are stamp...

I spent the day, other than a short playtime with the Princess, finishing up some of the stuff that has been cluttering my paint area. Some of these are from the procrastinator's challenge that I entered at A Hole in the Basket. What a good feeling to have some of these finished. The bread raising pan and the pencil holder are staying here, but I will be looking for a home for the bowl and the butter churn. This was a last minute gift for my step daughters grandparents in law. Last minute because I forgot about it, not her. She managed to tell me in plenty of time, I managed to forget.

I like those little slideshows that everyone puts on their blogs and managed to make one, however I can't figure out how to get it on the side and not on a post?