Painted Steps

Some friends have some very unusual stairs and they let me paint them. Here are some before and afters...

An old cupboard made new!

Hello again, Here is a picture of an old cupboard I had in the kitchen, it was boring and white, so I fixed that. Not boring anymore!!

So It's Fall!

Well much has happened since I got on here last. We had our 30th wedding anniversary. Great fun with family and friends. We had a son get married in the front yard just a week ago, COLD but beautiful. Fabulous food. I have not done alot of creative stuff but have been making these Hop vine Wreaths. Here's a picture.

Here's a picture of the happy couple, Sam and Brandy Brobeck. Oh and for the wedding I made my first wedding cake, I got some ideas from the internet, take a look.

Oh and also for the wedding, since I'm not a gardener, I made beer can flowers. They were fun and simple and cheap, recycle, recycle!

Let's see what else, oh made a scarecrow for the wedding to sit in the corner of the yard, we thought he looked just like dennis my hubby!

Well I'm babysitting grandsons today so better get back to them. Take care and have a stress free day!

Spring and Summer gotta love it!

Here are some photos I wanted to show, first is my 1st peony in 3 years and it's gorgeous, I was so excited to find it yesterday!

Then there is Max, our youngest, who is finding the artist in himself. It's been exciting to watch.

Then the other day I decided to paint a window on the house because I did not like the veiw from outside. It's a tad out there but very colorful.

Oh and here is little Zoey on Easter with me. We were at Aunt Myrna and Uncle Wally's for the day.

Then there is my first ever herb garden, they all smell so good but now I have to learn what to do with fresh herbs!

30 years and still in Love!!

Hello All,



Dennis and I are celebrating our 30th year anniversary in less than 2 weeks now. We are having a BBQ blowout and our son Max is coming with the band"A different Shade of Blues" to entertain.






Here is the picture of a chair I painted for a young couple who got married last weekend. I used to take care of him the nursery he was a favorite and he found a very sweet girl to marry.



Oh and here is a picture of Sam our 4th son with his fiance Brandy, they plan to marry in October.

Here a scene I snapped after my morning walk with the dogs, Norm and Blue. It's right at the edge of the driveway, I thought it was cool.

Byee for now, Donna!

Fun with Friendship Bread

Oh I am so mad at myself, I just posted this great adventure I had yesterday making muffins and then erased it.URGH!!!

Let me redo, My daughter in law, Rachel, gave me and my friend a start of Friendship bread. I have gone through the process and couple times and Den and I eat it so fast I decided to save all of it this time and bake some for the freezer. Well so I baked all day yesterday and still have the same amount for today to do. I jazzed them up each time, we have orange muffins, double chocolate chip muffins, Cliff's Heart healthy cereal and raisin muffins, they were all really good. The pistacio muffins with pistacio pudding in them were a bomb, I didn't add enough sugar and they are green, we'll need to be extra hungrey to eat them, or I'll just give them to Max, my son, he'll eat anything. I think there were 10 dozen muffins and 4 loaves of bread.

I also got some bags made , here's a picture. They will be for sale at the Idaho Baglady in Nampa Friday. Well I better get baking and sewing, Looks kinda cold today so bundle up!!!

Donna!

Fun with Purses

Hi All, Long time no write. So I have been cleaning quilt squares out of my drawer of scraps and made this quilt, it's king size and so warm.
But I still had more so I made a quilt to cover the window in the front room, it kinda looks like stained glass.
Well now I am doing some purses and reuseable shopping bags. Here are a couple. I am using basmati rice bags and demin from dennis' old overalls. I just today figured out how to wash the burlap bags and not have all the color come out, thanks mom!!
Well I am off to sew a few more bags today as Dennis is working and I must make my way.
Oh an update on the chairs, they had a great time at the gallery but they are all back home with Den and I. I think I will try craigs list or something as you can only have so many chairs in your living room:-/
Tootles and have a great day.
Donna!

We're ready for the Gallery!

I posted this picture of unpainted chairs 9/23/08 so I wanted to show you how they turned out. I like the result! sorry about the background but I was excited and forgot about that. Here is also a picture of all of them together. They look so pretty all in a row. We take them in tomorrow so I will take some pictures of them in the Gallery. You all have a great day and Happy Thanks giving!
Donna~Creator of Cool Stuff

The Rose Garden has been planted (it's done)!

Hello,
Oh happy day the 5th and final chair has been completed and I just love this one. I was experimenting with painting roses and really like the result. I think I will wait a few days before I attempt another but am really pleased with this one. Comments are always appreciated.
PS: I am taking the chairs in this coming Monday or Tuesday, If you get a chance please come see them at the Gallery at Hyde Park in Boise, ID, I assume the display will be up 1st part of December through January 2009. Cool!!!

Have a great day, Donna!

Rose Garden Chair

Hello, So I have started the final chair for the gallery show. It is the Rose Garden. So far so good. I am pleased with the top slat and the rose buds are looking good. I wanted to learn roses and found them to be easier that I thought so, Yeah!!

Revamped Aprons for Cliff's!!

Good Morning Look what I did this morning, revamped some aprons from Cliff's. Yesterday I went to the Methodist Shop, a thrift store next to Cliff's, and got these cute quilt blocks, there were like 12 for a buck. So anyway when I got back to Cliff's (the place where I work) we were talking and thought they would look cute on some aprons they had that no one would wear cuz they were long and had no pockets, so.... I turned the bottoms up and made pockets all along the front and zig zagged these cute blocks on the front. Then I thought 'I wish I had time to embroider Cliff's name on the front', I'm not an embroidry nut, but I remembered some fabric paints I had so I used them, I only had gold and black but they turned out pretty good. I started at about 6:30 this morning and just finished, Yeah!!! Now I gotta get ready for work, have a great day.
Happy Createing~~

Greenleaf Friends Auction!

Hello, I just finished this little rocker for the Auction. It is a trash to treasure peice. It will make someone a nice doll chair. Just a nice little OLD rocker! The Auction is Friday and Saturday. There is a Bazaar, breadfast, kids games and oodles of other fun stuff to do and see. It's here at Greenleaf at the community center and the school on Main Street & Academy.
My next chair is well on it's way and will be the final chair for the gallery show which is less than a month away. I am trying my hand at roses on this one.
So I dreaded voting all day because of the weather but I got there at about 4:30 and got right in. One of the many reasons I love Greenleaf. I even got to see my friend who was sick over the weekend and is better now and my new friend I got to know at Women's Getaway over the weekend. Good Times!!

Women's Getaway to McCall, ID!!

Hello, This weekend I went on a Women's Getaway with 20 or so gals from the Greenleaf Friends Church. It was fun and as you can tell I am not the only one who had fun. The gal sticking her tougue out is one of the teachers at the Academy in Greenleaf, she's a FUN gal!!
The ladies in this picture, Lindy(Olive shirt) and Devonne(white shirt), fed us all sorts of good stuff and their cinnamon rolls and orange rolls and chicken noodle soup with homemade noodles that Lindy made. I had that for 2 meals. We had sharing time that was real good and game time and movie time, (Take the Lead w/Richard Gere) and Junk store shopping and quilt shop shopping. Audra,(Green shirt) found the cutest pattern for aprons so we are going to have a sewing day and make some, maybe for Christmas presents. The happy lady in the pink is Dianna, I think she had a REAL good time, hahaha!! We had a real great time and hope we can get more women to came next year.