Cottage Of The Month

Hey there!  Hope you are all having a very relaxing weekend.

I wanted to share with you that our home was selected as Cottage Of The Month over at Jennifers amazing blog The Old Painted Cottage.  It is truly an honor.  

 If youd like to check it out and see a few never before seen photos and parts of our home, 

click here! 

And be sure to check out the rest of the beautiful cottages featured there, as well as, Jennifers blog!

Have a great weekend everyone!

 

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GHOST OF HALLOWEEN PAST costumes

Last year George and I did the ghost thing but a little more elaborate

than a simple sheet.

Ghosts from the Titanic

George gets to know a great deal of the customers he delivers to,
and the last couple have been spent together doing those deliveries all dressed up.

Last Halloween we stopped in to see Bunny and got a photo taken with her.

Miss Bunny unfortunately passed days after her 101st birthday Oct 16th 2011.

I have always made all my costumes thru the yrs.

2009 I wanted to be the characters on a lotto scratch card I bought

King and Queen of Hearts

When I give him a a full face of hair it takes at least an hour or more in the early morning

to get ever hair glued in place.

Here is George half way through getting his beard glued on

2008

Leprechauns

At the time I was a warehouse manager and this costume was fun and easy to work in

and it was mighty cute too!

Captain Morgan

George actually wore the pirate costume to deliver for the day

and changed into a leprechaun when we went out for the night.

The next three are costumes I made several years before

George and I met.

Energizer Bunny

I actually made 5 costumes like this,

Sylvester the cat, Wiley Coyote, Scooby Doo, and Tiger

All were sold except the the Bunny

Miner 49er

GANDOLF the GREY

Heres a couple of pumpkins I carved for the front porch last year.

Many years ago I also used to be a professional pumpkin carver.

I also won a few community contests for this work

I will be resurrecting The Cat for this years festivities.

And George will be ....

well youll just have to wait and see.

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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

A HUSBAND AN ANTIQUE AND A POST CARD aqua chest of drawers

Just a quick peek for you.

George bought a little antique dresser last week and very

excitedly arrived home with it in his van anxious to show me.

Looking at it in the back of the van, I have to admit

 I was perplexed because it looked nice as is.

 I had assumed it was for me to work on.

He knows my motto

"if its not broke dont fix it"

It had rich color in the wood, beautiful hardware

 but once I get closer I realized how short it was,

 at about 27". We have been looking for a special

 piece for ourselves to fit along a low window.

Now this started to make sense, however it also has

 to be very shallow which this was not at 20" deep.

NOT GONNA WORK FOR US

i love you george

 I have been toying with the idea of turquoise

 and now I have to come up with a plan to refurbish

 the thing.  Of course the first thing was

 to put some casters back on it to give it a bit more

 stature. Then George shows me some repairs that it

 needed. The insides of the cabinet and drawers

 definitely would benefit from attention. The top

 surface varnish was bubbled all over.

Okay this is sounding better, I like to be needed.

But I didnt have a clear vision and it was sitting in the middle of my work space and something

had to happen. The top couldnt be painted without being stripped.

If I have to strip it I want to stain it dark walnut. Thats a start! That will go with turquoise.

So I removed the top to take outside to do the dirty work.

When removing it I found something, half a post card stuck

 between the frame and the top.

Addresser was:

Mr David Brown

1256 Davie St.

Vancouver BC

It reads "arrived at _____ johston. He is a big boy,

 was asking for you. The picture on this card is the

 hotel I stayed at in NY"

signed: "Father"

 See the post mark?

 1919

Okay now back to the dresser

 Trial and Error ....

I finally ended with something I adore ... 

Let me know what you think ....

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