Hello!
...hoping everyone reading this has thawed out a bit?
we have been keeping our wood stoves piping-hot these past few days ~
Peter's been cutting & chopping wood,
{{I have been sweeping up the wood chips near said wood stoves.}}
aside from that,
the weekend was busy ~
although Saturday we had a some-what weird day in the shop:
seems as though the woodstove in there
wanted to belch out woodsmoke
...and fill up the shop while we were trying to work ~
I do apologize Ladies...*cough cough*
Sunday, Charlie came for his supper ...
he is looking frail to me again, somewhat more disheveled than usual and a bit more shaky.
I'll have to check with his nurses to make sure his sugar-levels are correct.
{{remember that he is 83 and just a few months-ago
was hospitalized with pneumonia, congestive heart failure & renal failure}}
Charlie enjoys jigsaw puzzles,
so while I'm cooking supper for us, he sits at the dining room table, drinks his sweet-tea
and pieces them together ~
the one we're working on is a buster ~ 1000 pieces...but Charlie loves it.
So today I have a quiet day ~
I'll finally finish a couple of things that I've been working on...
like the bathroom curtains ~
...using the beautiful fabric below:
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| faded brick red with cream colored chain stitching |
{ then I'll do a little more of that sweeping I mentioned... }
I'll wet my brushes and work on that little Robin-girl sketch too...
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| pretty watercolors |
...then I'll pick up my needle and enjoy some quiet handwork
with a cat on my lap ~
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| antique quilt on my rack |
I think I may even go outside, visit our garden
and ask permission (from said bush) to cut a few branches from our Forsythia bush
and kindly force some flowers ~
...the ones below are faux,
but still they brighten my day :)
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| my old bicycle basket....really! |
more of the "faux-sythia" (good one! lol!!)
in my big old ironstone pitcher below...
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| our little keeping room ~ |
and then I will get back to the bathroom redux ~
Peter is working on the final painting of the window...
it needs to be reglazed and re-roped.
we've added some new (old, but new to us) things to the room too...
here is a peek at the curtain rods we've put up ~
they are beautiful,
a bit ornate but still simple to me and I cannot wait to hang the new curtains from them!!
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| one half of the pair ~ they swing open to let the sunshine in ~ LOVE the rust & paint... |
here is a tease of an old wall-mounted oil-lamp holder below
that we picked up junking in Appomattox:
it will hold a candle or perhaps an ivy ~ not sure yet ;)
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| I'm mixing ornate with primitive for this old farmhouse of ours...and I'm loving it! |
below is an old hanging oak medicine cabinet
that I bought at the Simple Goods show a couple of years ago...
...it had a new mirror in it,
so Peter replaced it for me with old wavy-glass
that we recycled from some windows
...that we replaced here in the farmhouse ~
I've filled it up with bottles that we've dug from the grounds here at the farm, old shaving brushes, vintage tin containers and a few bars of Kirkman Borax Soap ~
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| the original stenciling reads: "Dr. Daniels WARRANTED MEDICINES" |
the photo below shows one of the comb boxes I collect ~
...this one was also found at the Appomattox Gallery
and came with a small hand mirror and old tintype photograph of a handsome woman...
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| love the patina on the tin |
So there you have it
(for now)
More snaps to come of the bath, painting and curtains!!
Hoping your day is a peaceful & productive one ~
* Blessed be *
Lori
