Cabinets, Flowers, and Deck Light

 Slow, slow, slow and a little steady thrown  \

in there for measure, or at least cause it sounds good.

My neighbor, Carrie on the right side of me

gave me a metal cabinet with doors for the 

craft cave. Only I decided that it needed to 

go in the tool shed. BUT, yes, you know how

life goes, there is always a BUT in 

the works. My BUT is that the neighbor on the other

side of me bought a home built in 2015, and they

are redoing the kitchen area. The kitchen was 

built smack dab in the center part of one

end of the house. 

Yep, one BIG open room with a small kitchen 

down there on the end. Anyway, kitchen is now up ,

about where the wood stove is. It is 

BEAUTIFUL. Man who owns builds

cabinets and he does a great job. Anyway,

Deborah, is wife asked if I needed any

cabinets for my new shed. Taking out the

bottoms were not easy and they did not fair

well but the uppers were just fine.

I have two corner uppers, stacked

on top of each other, two of the next size

down, stacked on top each other and 

three smaller cabinets. Two I think I will 

throw a board on them, screw it down 

and have extra work space. I came home 

from some errands yesterday evening to 

find them already moved to the front of

my shed. Today, I scrubbed them (grease) and

set them up in the shed. Oh, this will

be so nice.

But, that is all I have gotten done.

Hopefully tomorrow I can get out 

there and do some unpacking and

organizing. 

EXCITED.

Oops, started this post a couple of 

days ago and totally forgot I did not

finish it.

haha..

Anyway, I am thinking I will probably never

sell all this that I have painted but, painting

relaxes me, keeps my mind and hands

moving, so I paint!

Still practicing my flowers.

I have painted iris several times

in oils and my teach told me they are

the hardest but I had them down 

great! Here are two paintings 

I did this past week.

I always painted purple iris basically cause

that is usually what you see.

I went with peach and yellow on the one

above.

Here are a few I did in oils.

My first.

My second, which hangs in my

bedroom. 

My third.

Pic of this is horrible, sorry.

But this was amazing. Sold it.

I was walking throught Bindery

in the state print shop and this 

had been printed for the state budget 

book one year. 

It was taken by Jed, my boss when

I went to work for Photo Service.

I asked Jed if was okay with me 

painting it.

The funny thing, I finished the painting

and about a week or so later I was 

offered the job in Photo Service.

It stood on a table in my office

for four yrs while I worked there.

Just so happens, a customer wanted it and

I sold it to her about a month before

I went to work for the TBI.

Do you think things happen 

for reasons?

Next, never painted a magnolia and 

here is my first.

How do you think I did?

I saw a reel on FB of a woman

making something similar to below

and I decided to give it a try.

I had a painting I did, did not 

like, sort messed it up and could

not repaint over it. Ripped the canvas 

off and since I have that,

"Don't throw this out cause I might

be able to use it later" gene, I kept the frame.

Painted the wood frame black, stained a piece

of wood, attached them together and 

added string lights I got at

Dollar Tree.

Going to look great on my 

deck.

If I ever get that cleaned up.

Talking about cleaning up the deck, 

I went out to do it yesterday and 

was going to vac the mattress on 

the day bed since I washed everything 

on it the other day, and I had a little

gray fur ball curled up on it...

Moved my thoughts to the kitchen 

then, which as slow as I go, 

took all day.

I scrubbed everything.

Do you do spring cleaning, room

by room?

I used too!!

HAHA

Pam