Age and Friends, A Friendlier Version of North and South

Age and Friends, A Friendlier Version of North and South

Two people met one day a few years ago in a most peculiar way

We were laughing our heads off

on the internet

Is that a site or what?

Then we embraced, on the world wide web

entwined ourselves...it's a crazy happening...unlike spiders

we became friends

She's older than me. Today's her birthday.

Have you ever met someone before that you knew you knew but never knew

until you knew her and then met her in real life and then were certain you knew each other?

Yeah. That's how it is.

It's an unexplainable friendship

For one, she lives in the south.

I, in the north. Oh don't get your guns all in a tether.

The separation is merely in miles.

Friendship is like that.We don't see each other or talk much or visit often.

A match made in Heaven is what I say...but I digress!

Now I'd like to tell you what our lives would be like if the north merged with the south in a

modern day continental shift.

"What? You didn't! Where? With Ruffles! O.M.Goodness

Seriously....I love that on you....oh who cares what they say....

I mean really we are HIS ART, not theirs and just who are they anyway?

LOVE your hair! Are you sure you should be on the AARP mailing list?

Do you have a birth certificate – is it authentic? Has anyone seen it?

Like as in touched it and felt the raised seal?

Just asking....what, this old thing? Came from Le Thrift!

Sure I'll be right over....yeah I have some carrots and celery, bring them and marjoram, ok?

Can you show me how to make those pants sometime? Great."

Because of distance and life and living we are not as close as one would hope,

but you can feel it, sense it, whenever we connect there is a truth, an honest experience,

where there's fun and depth...for now it's North and South, joined in heart.

Never afraid to be ourselves. Let the chips fall where they may!

The color of my friend's world has changed. Perhaps those bright color Picasso's are

more like the muted landscape of a Monet where up close it appears like a splatter of

paint yet the wider view is a glorious picture so perfect you wouldn't even believe your eyes!

I love my friend. I wanted to let her know today, on her birthday, that time and distance are

nothing to what is true! Happy Birthday, Denise!

http://youtu.be/xFCf7dMDYd4

Video Version Click the Link

XO

 

and then there are SIGNS

I'm not a sign maker

Well

I wasn't until I actually painted a sign

Now

I'm a sign maker

bathroom redo Spring 2012

reveal coming soon

I think my friend Ginger saw this sign, thought I was a sign-maker and then asked me to make a plethora of signs for her wedding this past January

to be on display

for everyone to see

400+ everyone at the church

(there were definite sign makers there - real ones)

not counting the staff at the country club

GULP

I'm realizing that prayer is truly the only way for me to 

~jump off the cliff~

and do these sorts of things

Oh but wait

I needed to use glitter too

GLITTER

ME?

I've never used glitter in the

(insert Irish accent) 

"whole of my life"

So

I jumped

And isn't wonderful that when you imagine that you're not something

then you do it

YOU BECOME SOMETHING MORE

Photo montage begins now....

chandelier graphic was purchased on ETSY

the bottom two frames were NOT used at the wedding

I was a bit slaphappy at this point and starting reciting poetry

I think it's true....love can be dishwater

and it can also be wine

then I got some glitter in my eyes

this one was BIG

 every sign was glittered

the larger signs were hand lettered, hand painted

love you gals,

This little sweetness is what I'm working on next with one of 

the best people in all the land

KENDRA at CREATIVE AMBITIONS

Ode to Posts Gone By

May
what to say

June
how I swoon

July
No alibi

August
in the dust

September
I almost remembered

October
it was almost over

November
a burning ember

December
another ember?

January
a little hairy

February
here I airy

love you gals,

The EASTER BUNNY target?

Because we have this

My boys do this

And this

And this

 Which makes EC do this

and this

then I do this

Instructions for Hay Bale Wall: Go to farm, buy bales of hay, carry them in your mini-van to the city, wedge them in between trees in backyard. Secure with rope.


Instructions for Target: Marry a man, give birth to two boys, purchase all archery equipment needed for sport to be Olympic style, let boys loose in back yard.  


Instructions for Bunny Target: Marry a man, give birth to two boys, create hay bale wall in backyard, shoot arrows for days on end into traditional style target......then think.....and think.....grab a hunk of Ethafoam, cut foam with old tool box steak knife (EC couldn't throw it out) into desired shape, attach bunny parts with contact cement. Let glue dry. Spray paint bunny target a pretty spring color. Wait for Easter.

Happy Easter

Hope you enjoy yours!

You know what we'll be doing!

love you gals,

ps - Yes, EC did all of the above, except for the spray painting!

*eggs designed by Sean, 8yo.

Joining everyone over here tonight!

Grey Accessories!

Rocked my sweet babies

in this rocking chair and rocking ottoman

some 8 and 11 years ago!

(Almost put these chairs to the curb one day)

Then I grabbed some confidence, along with a large drop cloth, 

thanks to Polly and Donna and Marian

...held my breath

and thus began the sewing adventure of a lifetime.

Work in progress

 Welting and skirt

Dancing ottoman

Tailoring details on chair back

 Here they are now

with my favorite grey accessories!

love you gals,

All kinds of blooms!

MISS MUSTARD SEED
click here.  had trouble sharing the video

blooms!

This creative woman is afire!

She does and makes and creates and paints and travels and has body parts removed and eats Reese's PB cups and laughs and then sews some slip covers.

All in the same day!

(not kidding)

It hurts me.

But I love every project she has mastered! Marian makes every project look do-able,
in real life. 
And I can attest to that.
While following her blog for a while now, I have entered the world as a painter of furniture and canvas and have covered nearly all my hand me down furniture in slipcovers with cording/welting!


Thank you, Marian!

So I wanted to give a shout out about her talents and gifts
along with a heart felt personal thanks!

In case you didn't see the show, there's a clip above!
Just click on her blog name!

love you gals,

can't get the video to work here

CLICK on her NAME ABOVE

Cinchy Stuff

Hi

Me again.

How 'bout all that heat last week?

Woo!

23 degrees here today!

Welcome to springtime in New York!

Here's some cinchy things that will most likely not change interior design psychology

yet

have put a smile on my face.

I'm joining these crazies:

it all started with paint

Eclectically vintage

The Cottage Market

the space between

thistlewood farm

in this:

Ready for some cinchy stuff?

Brace yourselves!

WINTER FRONT DOOR

SPRING FRONT DOOR

I know.  Hold your applause!

See that little shelf?  It's been bare wood for 60 years.  So.  I painted it yellow.  Yes.  Just the other day.

 And look what became of our breakfast nook!

Sunshine.

Instructions for front door project:  Remove snowman ornament, toss into Christmas storage box.  Grab broken outdoor wind chime from last year, throw colorful disks over wreath.  Smile.

Instructions for painting shelf:  Early summer weather necessary.  Remove wooden shelf from wall.  Hold spray paint can upright.  Spray.  Look at drips and have not a care in the world.  Let dry.  Hang shelf in same spot.