Black Dresser $189

I just finished this dresser: Check it out!

It is $189...I'm taking it to the Blackfoot Gift Bazaar on Wednesday, unless someone snatches it up first :) Let me know if you would like to take a look.

Black Solid Wood Dresser

7 Drawers

All drawers slide easily- super sturdy, solid and heavy

Distressed black paint

i finally made something from pinterest

I made this little mermaid for Ella.

I am working on several more mermaids for my Abigail and maybe some for the store.

I loved the free motion quilting aspect of this little project.

beloved chickens

last spring, I came home with 10 tiny baby chicks

they lived in the garage for a bit, and in the laundry room on cold nights, with a heat lamp

i wasn't sure how many of them would survive

three disappeared one day, but i found one in the bushes in the front yard

then the neighbor kids helped me chase it back in

so we ended up with EIGHT

two Orpington, and six Red Star (I think)

i didn't see one earwig last summer

they eat everything

BUT, they eat everything

so my garden was dug up

baby corn plants, peas, tiny cabbages, and other plants disappeared

oh, and they poop on everything

so i've been working on a design for a new chicken coop

LT wasn't as excited about my plans as I was

"flower pots? really?"

i would like to use mostly salvaged/vintage materials for this chicken coop

a little 6x6 chicken house, with a 6x6 run

compost bins in the front

a nesting box, with rusty corrugated metal roof!, and a place to roost

i feel a little guilty cooping them up, but we can always let them out

when it is safe for our garden



right now at this very moment

i heard this morning on the radio that Etta James died last friday...this is my favorite song, i love her confidence, i wish i could borrow some of it right now



right this very minute, i'm getting ready to present about Relational-Cultural Theory to the Idaho Counseling Association.... LT and the kids are watching TV, and everyone is full from a good dinner of frybread and roast beef (yeah, healthy, i know.)

my bags are packed, but i'm working on my powerpoint, making changes, doubting myself and the audacity of a student presenting to a group of people who have more experience and more letters after their names

i'm worried about my size....about judgement, disconnection, and my ability to convey my message: a message that is, after all, so close to my heart and has a good chance of being dismissed by people afraid of change

i keep going over a quote by Audre Lorde's in Sister Outsider:

"...it is not those differences
between us that are separating us. It is
rather our refusal to recognize those dif­ferences, and to examine the
distortions which result from our misnaming them and their effects upon human
behavior and expectation."

today I took down my tree

this year, my tree didn't stay decorated.

My little E and J spent weeks deconstructing the decorated tree

breaking ornaments, losing pieces, and adding their own

taking it down today made me think...

about new starts, decisions, and the future.

I've been hanging on to the past, using the same ornaments every year, even though I've changed.

losing control helped me let go

of things I didn't love

but thought I had to hold on to

and decide which things I really love: it forced me to choose

today, I kept what I really love, threw out what was tired, and created a new start.

I bought this lovely a few years ago, after Christmas sale at Joann's.  She still makes my heart sing :)

I wasn't going to do any resolutions, but taking down the tree got me thinking.

In 2012 I will...

have fun

be bold

sing

be me

rock the boat

be grateful

giggle

love

have a voice

CHANGE THE WORLD

Vintage Glider

I'm so pleased with how this turned out, I just have to share :)

I have had this old glider sitting on the porch at Abigail's all summer. I found it at an estate sale a while ago, and have been using it for summer days on the porch.

Yesterday, I decided to paint it. I didn't have many good colors in my paint stash, so I made my own color.  I had a pretty ugly light moss green.  You know, the color that was hot about 10 years ago, but now, not so much.  I also found a really painfully bright turquoise.  I mixed the two....using the lighter green as a base, and added the turquoise a bit at a time.

  At first, it looked a little brown....I kept adding and it turned out so pretty.

The pictures don't capture the color as well as I had hoped, it is gorgeous in person.

Check out a sneek peek of a new project I'm working on here.



Pinterest

"That's a neat idea.."

"I like that one.."
"Me too!"
"I digg that one."
"I'll tweet that."
"Hmm.. where did I find that website?"
"Gosh..I wish I knew..."

These are all comments that many of us have had made a million times. Now, thanks to the wonderful world of PINTEREST we are all having {endless-gasps} of pinning our finds and sharing our ideas while we log everything!

I'm sure you've seen it, but if you haven't, you don't know what you're missing. Come follow me :)

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