Project Status Report

I'm deep cleaning my desk and going through the last of the paperwork I collected at the National Stationery Show in May. These are some websites with stuff I liked. Enjoy!

We Do Windows

Uncookedland

Parcel Studio

Dot's Daughter Designs

ACN Enterprise

Farm Cards

Paper Chatter

Cancer Care Cards

Window Sane

Global Solutions

Old business:
The lie in the previous entry - I don't water ski. Not enough money in the world to get me to even think about trying - because as Krissie pointed out - I'm not fond of deep water. Poor Steve, his whole family loves the water. I like looking at pretty water though!

Amy - I actually have been thinking of making my own headboard so I've started paying closer attention to what I see on HGTV these days. (I would love those instructions you said you have - for a padded headboard, just in case. Thanks!) The only thing that springs to mind is I know they use old doors sometimes, painted or stained and hung horizontally. I don't want to spend much money because I think we'll get a king sized bed sometime. Not in the near future or anything. It was Steve's idea and after sleeping shoulder to shoulder between Reggi and Steve last night, yeah, we could use some more room! Reggi really does sleep on her dog bed on the floor but she often goes to sleep on the bed with me until Steve comes in to bed later, which I don't mind. And she sometimes comes up on the bed in the morning. It's just that I could actually sleep in this morning (until 7:00 - woohoo!) so I wanted to sprawl as long as I could.

This is my first weekend trying out my new system of doing "house/Stefani" stuff on Saturday and Pine Tree Designs stuff on Sunday. I liked it! I finished the bathroom yesterday, meaning I finally installed that piece of wainscoting & trim behind the toilet - looks fantastic, if I do say so myself.

I also finished painting the trim in the bedroom. I have a couple of touch-ups to do on the ceiling and then I can put the paint and tools away.

I finished painting the front doors! I started this between the bathroom and bedroom projects because I wanted a quickie instant gratification project. I've been thinking about this since last summer. On the way to the store to buy the bedroom paint, I decided to just do it. I always called the front porch area, "the cave" because it was so dark. I love this yellow! It took 1 coat of tinted primer and 3 coats of yellow to cover that gray. (You can see in the before picture where I started applying the primer - almost forgetting to take before pictures!

I also painted the people garage door and the door leading from the garage to the house the same yellow. I haven't decided what color to paint the window trim of this door. I'm thinking blue - to match the house trim. Gretchen says Burgundy. Anyone else want to offer a suggestion?

My morning glories are finally taking off. There are buds on them and the weakling 3rd seedling on the right, finally grew tall enough to start climbing the trellis. I have no idea why that one is so stunted or what caused it to start growing again.

Long time readers will remember that I'm crazy about hydrangeas. Look - buds! This very full bush is right outside my studio window. It's finally looking good again, though still a bit lopsided, after some overpruning on my part 2 years ago. It's very lush, it's just that the branches on the left don't reach the ground like the ones on the right do. Can't wait for blooms!