GOSH, I'M HERE SOONER THAN I THOUGHT!!

This months has flown by for me - maybe because
we had this big project to do.

So in the last post I showed that we were making our first ever painted floor cloth.

It's turning out just how we wanted it to.

3 coats of base color

Turning the hem - we used two sided carpet tape.
Tried the Gorilla glue but it didn't work.

Starting the border

Border finished

Made grids for the center designs

Ready to stencil designs - we were going to do
the one design in black but decided against it.

Stencil designs

Designs finished

Painting on antique glaze

Antique glaze wiped off - I like it!!!

Next step is 3 coats of latex polyurethane and then it is done!!!

Comparison - antique glaze is on the right.

A couple of my newest designs I made into patterns

Love Birds

Peacock

Fraktur vase of flowers

Designing punch needle patterns

The rest of these aren't my designs
but ones that will be for sale 'finished' at some point

This is about all I can add this post - all this has kept me/us busy.

Thanks for stopping by today!!
Karen

HAS IT REALLY BEEN THAT LONG??

Holy Moly I can't believe I haven't posted since August!

A lot has happened since then...we had another great In-Home show the first of October
and did a little mini vacation to PA and then up into NY to visit our grandson
who is working on a drilling team.  It was short but fun.

In November we went to IL to a few antique/primitive shows and found a few things.
Some for us some for our business.
And also saw a few friends from FB
(and one who lives near us)

Here's just a few items we found

Chalkware Santa

Wonderful old sled

Old metal skates

Wool roving to use for sheep and hair

Favorite purchase
Tin light from Carriage House Lighting

And we found a few more vintage ornaments

These note pads were hard to pass up so I bought 2!!

2 pieces of res/ivory wool and

and an army blanket

Small little blackened beeswax turkey

We met a great antique dealer "Joe Cardetti'
Friend from FB

Another FB friend Sally Strom Joller

Tina Nikkila who lives near us was there as well

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Look at this gorgeous turkey!

It looks like blackened beeswax doesn't it?
It's not though - made from some kind of resin
and I got it from Hobby Lobby!!

If you were bored with the first part of this post
I'm sorry - but it has been so long there's lots stored up.

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Jan. 14th my husband Doug celebrated his 80th birthday.

I threw him a birthday party for a few friends and relatives.
It was such a great day.
Our granddaughter wanted to contribute so she asked if she could

 make the cake...yes..for sure you can I said.
It was her first ever attempt at baking from scratch
and especially a birthday cake.
I told her to keep it simple and not fru-fru looking.
She did a great job. 
 

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Two weeks ago we saw a chair on FB Markeplace
in Illinois about 45 minute drive for us 
so we went to look at the chair and loved it.
We love having the Chair and a half instead of a 
single chair - we sold the one chair we had so this 
one would work...and we love it..
Now we have two Chair and a half

The picture isn't bright so I took a shot of the chair by itself
It shows the true colors and they work great with
our other furniture colors.
(they both have footstools but we stored them, it would be too cluttered with them)

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Oh one more thing...our winter project
We are trying our hand at making a floorcloth!

Doug making a large flat surface to work on

Canvas has been primed with two coats of primer

Need to put 2-3 coats of base color on
Next step will be stenciling the designs.
Stencils are being shipped today.
Then it will get an antique glaze to tone down the color.
Then the sealer.
Keep tuned!!!

Karen