New Dreams and painting

Hello friends:

Sorry I'm late but in paint up to my ears, and nothing is finished.  Does this happen to you?
In the DYI world of ours, distractions are no good.
They get you behind and you end up with five projects at once and nothing is done.
This is my world for the last two weeks, everyday, I'm determine, positive, and enthusiastic and, want to finish something, but I'm lacking tape, paint, clay,name it supplies, the phone, the rain, the humidity.  Anyway, like Ellen says, I'm almost done with the chalkboard pots, one more coat, and they are out of this house.  I got a great tip in a blog, and now I cann't remember where, but its for getting the awful "antique" smell from suitcases.  I have a beautiful old old suitcase that smells so bad, everyday I take it outside in the sun, I tried febreeze, nothing, but today I found a new trick.
The blogger says this works magic:  get a bottle of unscented litter, pour the entire bottle inside the suitcase, close it, and don't open it for one week. At the end dump the litter in the garbage and your suitcase will never smell again.  WOW, I'm on to buy the litter because I don't have cats. 
Now, I know how to get rid of those smells that fills our basements with the great finds. Great tip now I have to find the author of the blog, LOL

Here is some inspiration and I'm going back to get
something finish today.  I found a great french desk to die for come back tomorow to see the picture. It is painted in blue and fully distressed!!!!! I couldn't believe it.  I'll show it to you tomorow on "great finds"



This is from Ikea, so beautiful love the color.

have a wonderful day

Martha

Special corners in our homes

Dear Friends:

 Hope everyone is doing fine.  Today, I will show you

how to make your home cozy and different using your

collections, and everyday items.

Love cages, and we all have one or two. You can use them for so many vignettes, this is one idea.

Another inspiration is to use chalkboard paint in different places.  How about this?  sweet?

This is a cute bedside vignette, so homey and cozy.

We all have old books, a lamp, a bouquet of fresh flowers, and you make your house a home.

Make a display with an old spoon, a dried flower and a candle.

So sweet and special.

This is the "ultimate vignette" from Austin Texas, via the Web

Enjoy,

Martha

I'm obsessed

Hope you had a great Memorial Day Holiday.I am obsessed with coffee sacks. I love them and then I found these...




This beautiful cushions are made with coffee sacks, Viva Terra is an online store with some unique furniture.  Go here:http://www.vivaterra.com/catalog/product/view/id/10787/s/convertible-cage-lamp/category/303/

I love the coffee sacks, about a year ago a famous store for us DYI in the East Coast called Bldg. 19

really is a huge store that has all kinds of goodies for very little money.  Well, they had thousands of these sacks for 1.00 ea.  I was in heaven, some nicer than others, but I have never seen so many.
The owners of Bldg.19  get leftover from big stores and you can really score there sometimes.
Rugs and mattresses are very cheap, I'm talking oriental rugs and brand names mattresses.



Love this chair done with a coffee sack by http://adiamondinthestuff.blogspot.com/2012/05/burlap-coffee-sack-chair.html





This adorable rocker from here:http://www.designsponge.com/2010/08/before-after-ashleys-chair-marys-ikea-hacks.html
cute and inexpensive.

Now, this is a bit more fancy and so cute.  This chair is by
http://blog.moxii.com/tips/diy-coffee-bag-chair-transformation/

This site sells the coffee sacks, they list a phone number, I get mine FREE, I go sometimes to this tiny
coffee shop where the guy roasts his own beans and he buys them in Central America.  He thinks he sells gold, the cups are one size only and not cheap.  But, he once in a while gives me a sack or two, nice  guy, but I like Starbucks coffee, but believe me, they don't give the sacks to the public.  Now I just have to start upholtering,  oh what's that, it sounds HARD, I have never done anything like that.

Have you?   But this looks simple you just need a staple and the sacks, and voila you did it.

Make and display post.

You are talking with someone who is even afraid to use the DRILL, I'm slowly loosing the fear, but
not yet,, I'm making something that needs the help of a drill, so I'm learning.  I rather work with pencils and chalk, and kids.

One more picture I love:

 This is talent so cute.  This site is http://hollypprojects.blogspot.com/2012/02/tweed-and-coffee-sack-chair.html


Write to me I want to know if you ever done something like this.

Have a wonderful day or evening, I'm going to make friends with my drill and
power saw,  its going to take a long time, but we need to make friends once and
for all, I don't want to depend on Mr. I want to do it.

Peace

Happy crafting, I'm almost done with the Moss covered letter, I'm putting the tutorial together for you, its a fun project, but I'm warning you, wear gloves, and go slow, its not a fast project, it takes time, but
\its beautiful, very earthy, and organic.

to be continued...

Great weekend finds???

Dear friends:

These new finds ended up in my car this weekend.

This sweet turquoise bowl, the iron decoration, free also.  and the best deal the CORONA TYPEWRITER, so sweet and in a remarkable condition.

Look at this beauty, and it was free, $0.00 a great find, I don't thing this beauty was ever used. It has its original ribbon, everything works well, and it has a beautiful case.

It was a great find.

THANK YOU

   

Decoration Day

Sleep, comrades, sleep and rest

On this Field of the Grounded Arms,

Where foes no more molest,

Nor sentry's shot alarms!

Ye have slept on the ground before,

And started to your feet

At the cannon's sudden roar,

Or the drum's redoubling beat.

But in this camp of Death

No sound your slumber breaks;

Here is no fevered breath,

No wound that bleeds and aches.

All is repose and peace,

Untrampled lies the sod;

The shouts of battle cease,

It is the Truce of God!

Rest, comrades, rest and sleep!

The thoughts of men shall be

As sentinels to keep

Your rest from danger free.

Your silent tents of green

We deck with fragrant flowers

Yours has the suffering been,

The memory shall be ours.

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

 

This man stopped to take a picture of the 33.000 flags in display to honor the soldiers at the Boston Common.

 

God Bless America