Red Roman Shade

Today for Rednesday,I'm showing you the before of my kitchen door. This was here when we moved in. I didn't like not being able to see out the door. In fact it was driving me crazy. I decided to make a roman shade.I went to You Tube and found some really great directions. I used fabric that I had. Here it is on the floor waiting for the glue to dry on the little dowel rods. I have it weighted down with ME Home Companions. After turning inside out and stringing it, here it is.
I'm sorry about the dark pic-it's so hard to take towards a window. I'm really happy with it. It is complete privacy when it's down-and best of all I can now see out the door!! Here's another view of my new little breakfast nook. Added the red window toppers and the new light over the table.You can barely see the window seat behind the table. It's coming along.
Hope you all have a great Rednesday! Go here to see more.

Leslie

A Little Green

Happy St. Patricks Day! I'll be making corned beef and cabbage on Saturday. What about you?This is my little shelf that's now in my Master Bedroom. I've painted the walls a light green, We are still working on the room-so I won't show it yet. Also painted the master bath a slightly lighter green.
This was my mom's. It goes perfect with our bedroom colors. Do you think it's weird to have a piece like this in a bedroom? I think it works just fine.
Here's my little vignette. It's really hard to see the paint color. I'll show some better pic's later. Anyway-hope you all have a Happy St. Pat's Day!

Leslie

Desk Re-do

I thought I'd share a furniture re-do with you today. I needed a desk for my craftroom that had drawers for storage(I really needed the drawers) and so I found this on Craigs List. The desk had good lines and was sturdy and had drawers. I used Annie Sloanes Chalk Paint in white.

After I painted I sanded and than used the clear wax to finish it.
I had to do 3 coats, because of the orange undertones of the wood. I was very pleased with the outcome. I had to replace the middle drawer pull, from my vintage stash. I think it looks okay.
Here it is in my new craft room. If you have been following my blog for awhile, you'll notice that my new room looks alot like my old craftroom. I wanted to keep my stuff, so I painted it a similar blue, and added my reds, pinks , greens and a touch of yellow. I'll be showing more soon.
Oops, I forgot to put the chair back. Anyway, it works great, and has lots of drawers!!!!

Weather is beautiful here in Texas after a really rainy weekend. Hope your weather is getting springlike! Have a good one!

Leslie

Vintage Reds

Here are some cuties in my new craft room. I found the brass house key hanger at the thrift store and painted red.Added the doll coat and hat. Also a little tag with a pic of yours truly'

My brother brought these back to me from Russia when I was a kid. He got to go on a high school trip there. I have always loved these-the colors are so pretty. I have these on a new (old) display shelf in my craft room. Also have a new banner that is red! I'm celebrating Rednesday. I missed you Rednesday! Go check out other reds at It's A Very Cherry World.

Hope you all have a great Wednesday!

Leslie

Starting Again

Come on in! It's been a really long time.

To summarize the past 8 months-we moved from old house into apartment-we moved from apartment into new house. My Dad passed away in the midst of this. We've been back and forth to my Dad's, to Chicago and all around chaos. I think I'm finally getting organized enough to start again.
I've been unpacking, organizing, painting, sewing, more painting and constructing since we've been in the new house. Above is one little project that I did. Bought the vintage escutcheons on Etsy and then the porcelain door knobs. Added them to our new his and hers office. I think they came out rather nice!

Above is a sneak peak. I can't wait to share more with you. Projects I've been working on, projects I hope to finish and new ones I haven't even started on yet. I have been keeping up with your blogs, just haven't been commenting-I felt like there wasn't enough time. But now I'm getting things under control. I hope to blog at least once a week. So here we go. I really missed you guys!!

Leslie

Little Surprise

Well-this is my life right now. All our stuff is in 3 storage units-we kept adding on as things were moved in and using up the space. We are settled in our tiny, and I mean tiny, apartment. I've concluded-Moving is Not Fun! Anyway it's done for now. We'll have more time to look at houses. We made offers on 2 different old houses-and neither one went through. Now we'll look at newer houses around where we live now. I'm not quite ready to give up on the vintage house yet-but there's not much in the area we want in our price range, that fits our criteria.

As we were packing up the old house, I pulled down from a ledge, a collection of old shoe shine boxes that had been up there for 13 years. One was kind of heavy, so I opened it to find this treasure chest full of vintage jewelry.
My Mom had given it to me years ago, and I completely forgot about it. What a nice surprise in the midst of all the chaos. The heart above has a L and R-My husbands name begins with R.
Some of the pieces are rhinestone and plastic and all kinds of stuff. Anyway. it was fun to go through it all. I hope you find a little surprise in your life! Have a great Wednesday! It's good to be back!

Leslie

Moving On

H is for House. It's been so long I almost forgot my password. I want to update you on what's been happening in my crazy life. The last time I posted, we had put our house on the market-and it sold that first day! I was amazed and never expected that to happen. It really caught us unprepared-as in buying the downsized house. We did make an offer on a cutie, but that fell through. After spending another unexpected week with my Dad, I have been packing the entire house-yes all 13 years of junk, and well loved stuff. We are moving into a temporary apartment until we find the right house. So move this weekend-then We can take out time to look. It has been a crazy few weeks-I'll be glad when the move is over. I'm exhausted and my back is killing me! Hopefully we'll find a house soon-so I can do this all over again. Ha ha! Hope all is well with you guys. I have been reading your blogs- just haven't commented lately. I'll be back next week. Have a good one!

Leslie