Monday, January 5, 2009

New projects are in the wind...

Today I think I found a way to do my decorative painting.
I have been searching the net for my particular design concepts, as well crafts stores and departments in other general stores in person this past weekend.

When all that failed I decided on picking up the heavy plastic used for stenciling that enables you to create your own stencils, it was three pieces for only $2.88.
With that said and done it made me feel the need even at that bargain price to find my conceived mind drafts and turn them into a reality. Now don’t laugh, but at this ripe old age our guest room is full of Teddy Bears, twenty three in all some how I acquired them from people as gifts, a wooden one from Europe, many Beanie Babies from organizations, March of Dimes with a donation, one of them was my husband’s as a child and another is the fifty anniversary one that was sold locally, and so it was natural to continue in that theme with wall paintings, and I have found that Teddy motif is what I was going to continue. The windows in the bedrooms are to get borders ivy vines in the guestroom and waves around our bedroom windows since that has a seashell theme.

The idea I decided on was to stencil the paintings, and borders around the windows and on the one wall in the guest room with just borders around our bedroom windows.
After extensively searching all of the above mentioned ideas I tried one more search and happened upon an art site, but alas it was selling pictures of my determined desired plans, not what I was after, after all.
So one last intuitive device, like a light bulb hit this somewhat atrophied brain, and voila I checked out my own clip art in my office word program and all my creative mind drafts were there in multiples. So now we will narrow down which ones we want to use.

My husband is doing the actual tracing and cutting for me, since I am not as coordinated as I once was, but I should be able to choose the colors, which I have many acrylics already and dab the paint; team work.

Our other project is somewhat more elaborate and costly, but should be done by the end of the month, not necessarily this one but we will see expense wise.
The quick vinyl surround we applied to use the bath after all was said and done after we got back in our home after the hurricane that was put around my tub in my bathroom, well it is not holding up and we have been pricing the subway ceramic tiles that I would much prefer, and it appears to be doable, and so that will be a project in the near future.

News just in: by Wednesday afternoon we may get some rain, yeah!
This is our dry season and it has been quite some time since we had any; our rain barrel is empty.

On that happy note I will say good night and you have one too.

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