This and That Post - Projects and Road Finds

Good Morning all

Bloggers!

Here it is the end of November 

and Nashville is dealing 

with some warmer weather.

The past week its been cool (32-35)

in the morning and warms up around

10 to about 50 degrees so that I can open

the door to the deck and Lily can go out.

This morning at 7:30 it was already 51!

And we have rain. 

Welcome to the world of Global 

Warming. 

Years ago when I was in paint class

I painted my first Christmas card. 

What I mean by that is I painted a 

scene and I had it printed for 

my card.

This is my first 

Christmas card. 

I am now working (and I am behind)

on this years card. 

For the next few (14) days

I will post the cards over the years.

By the time I am done, I should have this

years painted. I will not post it though

until it goes out in the mail

and has been received. 

I was very proud of my first card.

I sold the painting years ago but the

above is a pic of the printed card.

Since I have been showing some of

my creative projects I wanted

to share this.

Some of you might have seen it

before. I picked up this metal and 

glass bubblegum machine at 

Goodwill for $2.99.

Got it cause it was a great buy...

no clue what I was going to do 

with it....

then it hit me.

Birdfeeder.

I took out the parts so that the 

feed would move down on its own.

Applied a perch and a wire

to hang it by.

I gave this to my brother Mark, he

loves things like this, things that have been

recycled or upcycled.

One of my fav handmade Christmas

ornaments. I designed one like this from my

daughters DL when she got them over

20 yrs ago. So when my nephew

got his, I did the same for him.

Another happy project...For years the metal

stand stood in my brothers yard. 

For years I looked at it, wondering what

Mark was going to do with it.

When he was talking one day about

taking metal off to recycle I threw the 

question out there about what was

he going to do with it....

with that question, and this one, "can

I have it"?

I got it!

I sanded the rust off, primed it and 

painted it back black and my friend

Chris wired it for me. I picked up the 

outdoor lamp at Lowes.

Isn't it cool?

I is on my deck and I read by it some

nights. I could actually hang plants

on each side.

Haha...nope, I did not make this. Found it 

on Pinterest, but I thought it was cute.

Now....moving on to business.

But....first, I have stated that I am trying

to cut back on the items I have sitting around

to craft/recycle/repurpose....

but people keep setting things on the 

side of the road for

FREE!

Tuesday I was going to get my haircut

and saw this

Oh my gosh, it is solid wood, on rollers!

Haha...I don't need it, but my head and

heart would not let me leave it there.

Sitting right next to it was this chair

This is a tall bar like chair. I am seriously

thinking of cutting it down for a normal 

chair. Legs are a bit wobbly but I think 

I can handle that. 

Then yesterday the woman up the street

put this out. I was headed to recycle and moms

to clean when I saw it. I was loaded down 

with recycle stuff so I could not stop. 

Told myself if it was still there when I came

home I would get it!

IT WAS THERE!

Thought I would recover but I like the material

on there and all it really needs is cleaning.

Plus, not sure I could cover it with the 

buttons on there and it look this nice.

There was also this cool basket

with it. 

The lady up the street must have a shop

where she redose or sales stuff cause

she always has stuff by the road but

also a lot of stuff under her carport and 

it changes often.

She has got to stop sitting stuff by 

road! I have a hard time not stopping.

This is the same woman I got the

coffee table from that I redid

for my daughter. 

Okay...moving on to other stuff.

For several years now I have carried my

iphone in a clear case, but I decorate

it according to the season or event.

Here is my phone ready for the

Christmas season.

I love scrapbook paper.

Yesterday I stopped off at Hobby Lobby

and getting out of the car

I saw this....

love it.

Went to dinner with Theresa last night

and I wore this.

I really like the shirt now

that I buttoned it up!

I also have a gray one just like this

but it is going to get lace!

I started my painting life

with oils. I love working with 

oils opposed to acrylics but acrylics

sell better cause they don't cost as

much. Oils just demand a higher price.

So when I paint what I call a kindergarten 

painting (simple) I use acrylics.

Working on my Christmas card I went

with oils....it felt so good to move that paint

around on a canvas the other day.

Anyway, with all that said, here and there

some of us ladies in the family go

paint at a gallery. They use acrylics

and the are basically kindergarten

paintings I could do with my eyes closed.

But its the fun part, going out with 

friends or family as a whole to these

things. I am going out tomorrow

night with Kim my sis in law (Marks

wife).  We get to pick 3 minis to

do and they will hang on ribbon for

us. I think I will do the Christmas

ball, stocking and maybe the 

snowman. 

Kimmy and I will have a good time.

I will be going back to my other brothers

today to house sit till Wed. 

They are taking Eva back to NC for 

a service on Sat. There is other things

to do once there. 

Check out what Lily has done now..

http://pjack214.blogspot.com/2017/11/kitten-hat.html