Living Room and the Bar, New Project~Stain Glass and the Light

 One day a couple weeks

Julie had me over

to do an elopement and

she invited a new

a new Team Member for

me to meet.

She also made us

soup for afterwards.

I said that her little

pot was great and

I needed to get a small

crockpot like that so 

I would stop cooking

so much to fill 

my big one.

Julie actually had

three small crockpots

and gifted me with this

one.

I made chicken noodle

soup in it Sunday evening.

I had a cup full for lunch

on Monday.

YUM.

Problem is....making a smaller

batch of stuff, James, Julie,

Mark, Kim and Theresa will

not be getting left over food!

I love being home in 

my childhood home.

I hope one day to get

things done that I want

to do but you all know

how my body behaves so 

I might, I might not!

There are a couple of issues

that I don't care for because

I was spoiled to where I lived

for 28 years. 

We will get to those in 

a min.

However, I love my living room.

It is larger then the one

I had before and the one

I had was a great size. 

The other evening I moved, yes, 

still moving things around, a 

piece to the living room. 

This piece started out at

my other home as a side table

or library table. I did not

need it at this house until

it hit me that I could make

it as a bar for the kitchen.

It was just sitting there

catching crap that I had

to sit someplace. 

I moved it to behind the couch.

I had moved the couch

months ago to sit out in the 

room away from the picture

window.  I have a hutch 

on the back wall but the 

bar is in front of that

with a walkway from the 

front door. 

I have stools I purchased for 

the bar for when the boys

are here to eat at. 

They can always sit

in the living room at

the bar to eat now. 

The table was a tad more

narrow but I added the 

wood to the top and it sticks

out further on each side. 

Here is the view from the 

middle of the living room.

Couch and hutch on back 

wall.

Here is a pic from the

hutch to the other

end of the living room with

the bar behind the couch. 

I am liking it but if I move

the couch back in front

of the window, I will 

probably have to put the 

bar down in the garage. 

You all know that I am 

always trying to DO when

my bottom allows. 

Its not like I don't have things

to do or things started that 

need to be finished....but

I have ALWAYS wanted

to do stainglass. 

However, I pretty much decided

against that cause if you could 

see the craftroom you 

would wonder why I would

need any other stuff!!

But I still kept wanting 

to do....

I talked to a friend that does

stain glass and she talked

me through somethings so 

off to Hobby Lobby

I went.

There are a couple ways

to do it, glass with 

lead or copper wiring 

between each piece of glass OR

the way she does it. Small pieces of

glass glued

to a piece of glass and then 24 

hours later grout it.

I used an 8x10 glass from a 

frame. I also found a bag

of glass cut and for sale at

the Hobby, that way I did not

need to buy big pieces of 

glass to cut myself. 

Since I was not sure if I would

like doing this I went with the 

cut bagged glass. 

I glued the glass to 

the frame glass and came

up with an idea on what

I wanted. Let it dry over

night then grouted it.

I know this might surprise a 

lot of you since I do so

much but I have never

grouted. I had to play a bit

to figure that out. 

I let the grout dry and 

applied the frame back to the 

glass piece. 

For my first play around

project, I am loving it.

 

 

I am thinking of doing

a rustic hit and miss

of off white on the black

frame...you know where its

white with black showing

through.

Yep, I sort of like this

type of play!

Check out this light!

The pic does not do 

it justice.

Pretty cool ....

Pam