Poopoo Paper

Bet that titile grabbed your attention like it did mine....LOL.  I was just looking through my favorite blogs and came across this one from Diane Knott's blog.  She had this interesting site to go check out and of course I did.  Its Poopoo Paper, no not for our personal use, but for our use in an intirely different way....LOL.  Go check out this site.  http://www.poopoopaper.com/
After checking out the above, skip over to Dianes blog and be prepared for some wonderful stuff.
http://dianeknottsmusings.blogspot.com/

Snowy Saturday catch up

Mother Nature has struck once again. I must say it does make for a very cosy weekend of painting. I have just finished a large bushel gourd with a Rosemary West design. LOL, I do like her patterns. I also did two bentwood boxes that are going to my SDP chapter, KVDA out of Charleston WV. They are for their community project which is the local Hospice of Charleston.
The gourd is the size of inside a bushel basket, so it was large enough for this design which is from a packet done on a piece of furniture. I finished off the boxes with a red interior inside the bottom. I have several more plates ready to go with the same pattern. I have some shows I want to do this year and a very outdated website, which is my fault, that needs some remolding and updating. My daughter in law is my webmaster and has just about given up on me. I never can keep enough for the shop, and the website, so now is my painting time. Ok, back to the brushes, hmmm maybe even a cup of tea too!
Mushy Hugs

Monday Monday........

Its been a rather rough weekend with Maggie just over on the next hill at the vets hospital. She is one sick puppy yet. I just got off the phone and her counts are still high, but they have come down considerably. He said she maybe able to come home late tomorrow afternoon. No promises though.

This is a bushel gourd I had gotten from a friend who has passed away last winter. It was painted all white with ivy leaves stenciled on. I looked at everyday in my hallway so last night decided since I had to do some memory boxes for a hospice project I would pick a pattern that maybe I could use for both.n Of course it will be a Rosemary West, its a small table with a door on it, so the pattern is pretty large. I had to do something to take my mind off Maggie, so I base coated last nite. Also sealed the tops of 4 Treasure Boxes that will go to a Shriner Hospital for the children, most likely ones from Haiti. Well I had better go get something constructive done on these projects. Mushy Hugs

Thursdays Musings

  We had to leave our dog Maggie at the Vets Clinic yesterday.  She was really sick Wed AM.  Her white counts are thru the roof and so was her enzymes.  He feels its pancreitis.  They have kept her and on IV's and meds for the infection.   I will know more later this morning.  He feels Friday will be the day that will tell just how all this is working.  We really don't know Maggies true age.  We are assuming she is 9 to 10 yrs of age, but the Vet said she could be older.  She was a pound puppy rescue. Only the puppy was 3 to ? years old.  I just called and they are keeping her today.....still pushing fluids thru her and meds.  We will know more later today.  Its just so quiet around this house without her.  I find myself looking for her in one of her many beds.  Sigh.....we get them then when things happen we say "no more after this".  LOL, that lasts about 3 months at the most.  Its just the love they bring into our lives.  I think they enable us to love in ways we wouldn't.  Mushy Hugs

Continuing Monday

This shows the pile of angels. LOL, the mailman asked if any more boxes of angels were still due and I told him, there sure is! He smiled and just carried the large box up to the
house for me.











This is the current two projects finished for the shop. Both are Kim Klassen patterns. I am in the process of doing more of both pieces, but they will be put away for this years
upcoming shows.

Angels from Washington state

They're here!! The last box of three from Nancy in Washington state.
Now to seal the metal to let it meld. The longer its on before painting
the better the adhesion and less chance of scratches. I couldn't just
spray seal or prime these angels as there are parts like the wings, head
and candle cup that are permanent and I didn't want them sprayed.

I have a class set up with the angels for my chapter, then the others will
be used for shows and for a few door prizes. Thank you Nancy, your an
"Angel" to do this for me. I still have a few more that will be coming later
from Elaine in MD. I will add more to this blog a bit later as I have almost
finished several new things.

Work Ahead......

Boy do I have some work ahead of me. Angel land, some will be painted for sale, others metal sealed for a class in April. Several of Kim Klassen's de-signs to be done. Then there are the birds on top of ornaments of Judy Westegaard's. She has one more to come out in a magazine soon, so I bought the birds for all three. I also have two lamps that came with shades, one burgandy and the other the dark green. Those came from a popular office/workplace catalog a few years back. I bought them for our motorhome and never got them painted over. The stuff on it was just glued on, but they are a nice surface to paint on. Oh, and one of those tin boxes to try out. So I would say my week ahead is going to be busy. Mushy Hugs