And the painting continues

I have lost a few months somewhere.

The Fall Festival begins one week from Saturday. I need about 2 more months to get all my stuff ready :-(

Anyhoo, I have now started on the top of the cabinet :

The blank spots are where I have taken out some pansies I painted and didn't like :-) I'll be putting more roses there. The side you see above doesn't have all the roses on it yet because I ran out of daylight :-(

This is what it looked like yesterday after alot of scraping:

Oh yes. I will be back with more ;-)

Green Cabinet Update

I added red stripes to the top of the cabinet - and they need to be toned waaay down

Yes-that is my lame attempt at a flower you see on the side. I will either be sanding it off or painting over it. I got in a hurry (because I was running out of daylight and got too much white in the red and I ended up with a smeary pink-YUK!)

Flowers Repainted

Updated. I still have to touch up the flowers  &leaves  but I'm somewhat happier with these.

And of course...I have to have a "Soap Sign" :-)

I hope Santa brings me a Cricut or a Silhouette or something along those lines. I would make such good use of one :-)

I hope everyone has a great weekend! 

Harlequin Pattern Done & Stripes Started

I'm getting there...I can sure tell the days are getting shorter because I keep running out of light :-(

That's all for today folks :-) It's back to the sewing machine for me.

Getting Ready for the Fall Festival

I am working like a mad woman to get ready for the Newport News Fall Festival and decided I needed more display pieces -especially some that have height. For those of you that like primitive-this definitely looks primitive. It is VERY chippy and buckled in places.

This cabinet was given to me and has been sitting out in the yard for a while. I am eventually going to use it for a garden cabinet.

Here's what I started with: 

After scraping and sanding I gave it a few coats of Oops! paint then I marked off a grid:



Then diamonds (harlequin):

Then I began painting

I only have about 2 weeks left to finish this and since I am only working on it at night (to give my back a break from sewing all day) I don't know how far I'll get. I'll keep you posted :-)

Out on the Water

The weather here has been so pretty for the past two days that Tommy and I decided to be out on the water.

Just look at this beautiful sky:

So we packed up the boat

and were on our way to the marina

It was a fantastic day for being on the water!

We saw a pod of dolphins on our way out to the bay ~first time we've ever seen dolphins this close in. Aren't dolphins alot like rainbows? You see them and it makes you feel happy? However, the dolphins are apparentley camera shy-I would click the camera and they would dive :-/

We looked at the houses along the way and drooled

Not one but TWO wrap around porches! *sigh*

This next picture is actually at the end of our street (from the water side)

Now before you start thinking I'm all hoity toity...I imagine to most of these homeowners I'm considered a "one of them". I live in an 1800 square foot rancher that is NOT on the water. Most of their boat houses are bigger than our house :-)

And there is always a surprise when we go out on the water

This cow has a BIG watering hole!

I'm feeling really relaxed and should have plenty of energy to get all the stuff done that I should have been working on the past few days. I'm going to go do some weeding tomorrow.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Win a silhouette !!!

That's right-just hop on over to Under The Table and Dreaming for details!




Good luck!

Katy

Leisurely Day at Yorktown

We decided to take a little break from weeding the gardens and other work on Saturday because the weather here was gorgeous! Perfect day for the beach.

The road in to Riverwalk Landing in Yorktown

Riverwalk Shops (from the parking garage)

Shops

Courtyard

Beach -this is actually like a wading pond. Full of little kids :-)

The kids bought us a gift certificate for the restaurant (YUM!) at Riverwalk and this was the view from our table. We watched as the bridge opened to let the ship go through.

We came home and sat on the deck, lounged in the pool and pretty much did nothing but relax the rest of the evening. It was fantastic!

I hope you have a beautiful week!

Katy