Makeovers and Snow

This week was spring break for the kids from our state.  It was warm most of the time and on Friday it was a beautiful spring day, in the 70’s  Here is what my jonquils looked like on Friday.

 

Here is what they looked like this morning before we went to church.  Notice all of the footprints from our little dog and the hubby who went out to see how much snow we had at that time.

This is our deck at 6:30 this morning.  When we got home from church we had much more snow yet. We had around 12 inches total since 4:00 yesterday afternoon, along with sleet and lots of rain.

Hopefully, it will all be gone by Tuesday or Wednesday when it gets into the'60’s.  I have been doing some makeovers since I last posted.  I got these 5 boxes at work and made them over.  I didn’t know how it would work since they were a slick paper but I sanded them down and then painted and stained them.

 They look better in person but they did turn out well.  I had to give some of them 2 coats of paint so the design wouldn’t show underneath.  I also finished a checkerboard that I had been working on for sometimes.  I didn’t have the white checkers aged for these pictures.  I also have a shelf that I made over last summer that I finally hung in my bathroom.  There are too many things that get in my way for things that I like to do.

 This is a little bowl that I found at the Goodwill several weeks ago.  It had a bird painted in it with several other paintings.  I, of course, painted it black.  I just have to find the right place for it now.

We have started our garden for this summer.  We already have potatoes, radishes, lettuce, onions and beets planted.  The lettuce, radishes and onions were growing before the wonderful snow of this weekend.  I am hoping the snow acts as a blanket for it rather than just freeze everything.

A good friend of ours has been doing square foot gardening for several years and told us how it worked for her so my husband built boxes and this is what we have coming up so far.  I will have an herb bed this.  I just love herbs, they smell so good and taste so good when you use them fresh.

It’s off to the start of another week.  Hopefully, it won’t be so long before I post again.  Everyone have a great week and as always, thank you for your sweet comments.

Maxine

Make Overs & Antiques

I have been working on a few things the past couple of weeks, inbetween my 40 hour a week job and other duties that must be done around the house. This is a long post and I hope I don't lose you.

If you remember on the post where I showed items my hubby had built, this item needed some TLC. Here it is before the makeover

and here it is after.

The next one is a bench that my dad made years ago. Here is the before

and here is the after. I had a difficult time getting the white spots off. They still show through a little.

I found some old wooden spoons and forks when I was out and about one day and I brought them home and and here is what I did to them.

These are some really small boxes that I have had for over 20 yeares and they had cows and pigs on them. I painted them and antiqued them but I an not real sure I like the color of them. They look too much like a caramel color. I like the blue that everyone is now using.

This is a small shelf that had a heart cut in it. I tried to fill in the hole, but you can still see the outline. You can tell that I like red by all of these pictures, can't you. That is my favorite color. I just have to find a place to put it.

Next are some of my antiques. This is our kitchen table and some of our chairs. The table has square nails and lots of cracks. We played cards on it one night and had to move to another table because the cards kept falling through the cracks. My uncle bought these chairs in Boston on one of his buying trips. A story about the chairs, our daughter had to sit in the backseat of our car when we brought them back from Oklahoma to Arkansas. She was not a happy camper but very glad when we got home.

I have a salesman sample possum belly table that I use as a night stand. The inside of the possum belly is metal where my large one is wood in the drawers. Here is a picture of each of those. I probably should have moved the fan before I took this picture. My display really looks better than the picture shows. Oh well, can be perfect and I am far from that.

This one is the salesman sample. I was very fortunate to find it.

This is a bed that we found lying in a ditch in Eureka Springs about 15 years ago. We go there frequently. We went up to the owner and asked her if she wanted to sell it cheap and she said sure. That was my first iron bed. I have one more.

I purchased all of these items many years ago. I couldn't afford to do it now. My husband lost his job over 3 years ago and has not been able to find one since. When you get to a certain age, no one wants to hire you, even though that is against the law. He interviewed at many places and once they found out his age they would never call back.

I would like for everyone to go over to Tammy's blog at Country Girl at Home and read her Faithful Friday's post. It is a great post and pertains to the future of our country. We have to really pray for our country and it's future. Our politicians are not listening to us and are doing what they want, not what the people want.

One of these days I will learn how to post a website so you can link to it.

Blessings to you all!!!

Maxine