SATURDAY PROJECTS

What do you think of when you look at the face of this tulip?....I dream of being in the tropics.... lazing in a hammock....smelling of coco butter....flip flops dangling off my feet.... and sipping margaritas from a glass with little pink umbrellas in it........ soon I glance out my window and quickly recover....I am brought back to reality....Dear Husband is still digging us out.... but decide today is a good day for UFO'S otherwise known as unfinished projects.... This rug was my first attempt at primitive rug hooking. This design was inspired from an antique rug design found in an old catalog and adapted for me by my good friend Deb Arcaro. "Rocky and Bullwinkle" were a pair of calf's given to us by friends who own a dairy farm down the road. It was love at first sight for me....how I enjoyed making their bottles.... feeding....cleaning their stall.... however....little did I realize what I was getting myself in for....the calf's grew quickly....soon it was time for the elastic band neutering....hoping to train and use the steers for working in the woods....hauling logs to the sawmill. Those two steers quickly became quite the escape artists ....once off their tether they devoured laundry off the clothes line.... wreaths off the door.... lick the windows on the house....their sign of wanting my attention....Soon it became apparent they were too much for me to handle....one sad day they were loaded on a truck and taken away....I never inquired as to where they were heading....I felt I had let them down....but it was a great learning experience .... to this day I eat very little meat....

So today I cut wool....

steamed this "May Basket" runner....

finished hooking a small springtime mat....

and began an another....

waxed a shelf....

I like to use powered milk paint in my wood projects....milk paint dries quickly and is easily sanded down for the "grunging" process...

an application of Brixwax....

once dried it quickly finds a place on the wall....

This shelf I stained in "Puritan Pine"....the same shade found on most of the woodwork in our home.

once the first coat is dried I'll apply another application and off to the wall it too will go....no "grunging." My Dad has been quite busy in his Island workshop....thank you Dad....keep those projects coming!