Day 2...

Painting....

Have to get rid of this...

And this...

Took one really good coat of paint, but we did touch up some spots... so really 1 1/2 coats of paint.  The blue was harder to cover up than the pink  fuchsia.  Within a couple hours, it looked like a new room.

Scrubbed all wainscoting and baseboards. Don’t think they had ever been done. 


Then..... because I couldn’t stand it anymore... I painted the toilet room, I guess you’d call it.

Discovered when I was taking off the 90’s bathroom fixtures, they painted over striped wallpaper.  Mmm-hhh.. yep. So, I also painted over it. It was like a sea foam green paint I was covering up. Eeekkk, yuck. 

This was the after picture from yesterday. I think tomorrow we are getting cabinets ready for painting and assembling bed frames. Appliances are being delivered also tomorrow. 
We have to replace some wood where the dishwasher goes... they had a leak and didn’t do anything about it. Joy!

Day 1...

DEMO DAY!

We got in... first order of business is to take ugly, cracked 12” square ceramic tiles up.

 I forgot to take after.... I’ll do that today. 

Today’s order of business is.... PAINTING..

There is a FUSCIA colored wall and a wall with a baseball on it that has  bright blue accents... oh boy.... let’s see how many coats of paint it takes.

Cutter quilts...

I went to a garage sale and spied these 3 quilts thrown on a chair. Asked how much, he said $3.00. Sold! I didn’t know what shape they were in, but I felt I had to rescue this poor Grandma’s quilts. I’m sure she has been long gone for a while and these ‘kids’ don’t know just how precious these are. I washed, pre treated the stains..... and nothing. At least the stink is gone though.

Wellll......

Not sure that can be done. Here they are drying after being washed.

This one, with all these half square triangles...Grandma had hanging on display somewhere. She must have run out of blue triangles and used white down at the bottom. It has a piece of Velcro along the entire top of quilt. It’s the best of shape out of all of them.

This one, not sure there is one square that’s in good shape. Either has a stain or rip in each block. But also, hand stitched throughout. There’s no binding on it either. Just sewn and kinda tucked under. Weird. 


This is beyond hope. It’s made from feed sacks, beyond repair.  Stains and rips, tears, just plain worn out,  hand sewn and frankly I don’t know what to do with it. It’s like a flag, you just can’t throw it out! So I don’t know what I’ll do. Any suggestions?? Maybe hold on to them and use as cutter quilts for other projects. Not sure... But at least I rescued them from the bottom of someone’s garage floor!

Pillows...

Made these cute little pillows yesterday.

These I bought at Marshall’s. Plain Jane, to go on twin beds for accent pillows. Then the more I shopped, the more ideas I got. Came home and did these next day.they are going on twin beds for each of grandkids.. should I say grandsons.  

John John will get a kick out of see his name on his bed on a pillow,  and when Sloan gets older, he will too!

They are 16”, feathered pillows. Extremely soft and comfy. 

Play day....

Today was a play day with my friend Sandy. She has a cameo machine.

I tried to put them on Instagram but it cuts off the sides and I can’t figure out how to make the smaller. Well, I can make make the smaller, but can’t get them to stay small.

These all have hidden zippers on the back, but... the pillows that I ordered are so plump and full it pushes the zippers out. Oh well.


These are little zippered make up bags. Or anything you want to use them for.

Our quilt guild is having a challenge and members get to vote on their favorite. I have a chance to win money! Yahoo! Count me in.