New Living Room

First - old business. All the people that want me to paint their rooms - sure! I have some conditions though. I have to bring Gretchen because she's really the pro - with colors and ideas. I'm just a wannabe. You don't even have to pay us - but please pay for airfare and put us up in your home, wait on us hand and foot and treat us like the queens we think we deserve to be. Deal?

In the ladies room pictures the other day, what I didn't show you was the god-awful orange sink. I told you the walls were orange tile - and you saw the floor and urinal are yellow. This place screamed 70s. No, Ann Marie, we are not going to paint the urinal, though we considered it! We are, however, going to paint the sink! A former employee found special paint, made for this, which we could have tinted but we're going to use as is, white, I think it is. I'd asked our building dude to find that paint for me because I thought I'd do that last Friday too. I just got it yesterday so I'm not sure when that project will take place. Maybe one of the slow days before or after Christmas.

And sorry, Krissie, I don't remember the name of the blue - I think it was Behr paint? We've thrown the paint chips away or I'd tell you. You know I like it a lot when I decided to change the color of my web page to match!

Marilyn asked for pictures of our living room and family room switcheroo. Here are a few for today. I don't have befores, just these afters.

This is the corner of the now living room, where the TV used to be. That colorful thing on the wall is a wall air conditioner that we don't use anymore, now that we have central air. Eventually I suppose we'll remove it and have the wall patched but that just seems like way too much work and expense now. It has a white quilted cover on it but I found this fabric in my stash the other day and remembered how much I like it. I used it to make a flag for the deck a couple of years ago. I just have two small strips so I tucked them under the elastic of the white cover, just to see. I think I like it. I'm thinking that thing was an eyesore either way, so better to embrace it's eyesoreness!

To no one's surprise, the fountain has become a drinking fountain for the cats. There's a blue bulb in that lamp - Steve's idea, no less - for a little ambience. The black picture above is one I made in a class I took at the stamp store that no longer exists. It was taught by a woman from Magenta, one of my favorite stamp companies in the whole wide world. It's 3" squares of paper, inked and stamped with Magenta stamps. Doesn't it just call my name? It's Magenta, it's squares lined up!

This is the mantle, draped with blue fabric, which displays my snowy and snowman things, with Koray, Lizz's beta fish on the far right. I see now I should probably take closeups of some of the snowmen. Some of them are candles plus there's about 6 white tealights in clear glass holders. That's a string of white lights behind the whole thing. I'm looking for something winterish to replace that goose quilt picture. I bought it and a couple of small ones at a craft show eons ago. Hmmm, little squares all lined up - are we seeing a pattern here??

More to come. (I'm working on keeping my entries shorter. Lotsa luck. Why do you think I titled my journal "And Another Thing . . . "?)