... and we have curtains!

Actually, I've had curtains for a few days.

I'm multi-tasking right now ... I have a few irons

in the fire.  Nothing new there.

I'll show ya:

Curtains,

Kitty Pails, Shelves,

more Curtains, a POP of color in the way

of flowers and a ceramic vase,

and some unfinished ornaments pulled

out of storage by Crafty Girlfriend

with instructions to

FINISH THESE!!!

Some towel storage in the barn bathroom,

Some Jack-o-Lantern and Frank Pails,

more POP in the bathroom,

and, you guessed it, more POP ...

as well as a few scarecrows awaiting finishing

touches and friendly snowmen;

... and a few of my shelves ...

while they were still empty.

I would have taken a pic of my shelves FULL,

but my camera battery wasn't cooperating.

I'm looking forward to the weekend!

I'm hoping to spend many hours

in my studio making lots of

holiday goodies!!!

Peace Out

The Barn Bathroom Window

Can I just complain for a moment?

It's been the tiniest bit rainy, and that is

definitely not my complaint because

we need the rain.

No, my complaint is that we're trying to

have concrete poured around the

barn.  No, wait.

My ACTUAL complaint isn't about the concrete,

because I understand that some things

just canNOT be done in the rain,

and apparently pouring concrete is one of them.

My complaint is ...

why can't the plumber work inside,

out of the rain,

and get my bathroom put together?!

It's been three weeks.

OVER three weeks, actually, and I

just can't see rhyme or reason

as to why he can't get his butt out here

and put my pedestal sink in,

put the dang toilet in,

hook up and glue down the sinks in

my studio and my kitchen area.

Really.

It would probably take

him longer to drive out here than it would

take him to complete the few tasks

I'm more than ready for him to complete.

GAH!!!

Thanks for listening.  Here's that picture

of the bathroom window:

Now if only someone,
I won't say who,
would FINISH MY BATHROOM
so someone else,
I won't say who,
could CLEAN UP THE CONSTRUCTION MESS
then someone,
(okay, me)
could hang my curtains and make
my curtain tie backs!!!


pfft

A Barn Bathroom

A barn bathroom; a bathroom for a barn;

however you say it, the window needs a curtain.

Actually, this barn is pretty centrally seated on

one hundred and twenty acres of

... well, trees, actually ...

so really, it's pretty private just by location.

My daughter disagrees.

Something about "nature" watching

her when nature calls??

Nah, I actually see her point.

Even Bambi doesn't need to see all that. 

Right?

Besides, decorating is the fun part.

That's my story; and I'm sticking to it.

You may have noticed that none of these pics

actually shows the bathroom window

as the focal point.

Yea, I dunno.  I've been through

three different camera chips and clearly

I never thought the window was the

most interesting part of the bathroom ... until now,

and I don't have a direct photo of it.

I made the curtains anyway,

so this post will go on ... and I promise to

come back at a later date

(hopefully this evening)

and add a picture of the window.

Keeping in mind, if you will,

that nothing is completed yet EXCEPT

my curtains, and I can't hang

them in the window until the plumber

wraps up his business in that room

and the "cleaning crew"

does its thing.  

Actually, as the "" "" indicate, I have

more to say about this, but I'll save it for another post.

Moving on ... to curtains!!

I bought a fabric shower curtain,

and cut it right up the middle into two panels.

 

  

I pressed the edges to smooth them out.

Because yellow is my "pop" color in the bathroom,

( you know all about "pop" colors, right? )

I bought blanket binding in that color and pinned

it to the cut edges of each panel.

I sewed a straight stitch down the

outside edge of the binding,

and another straight stitch down the 

inside edge of the binding.

Then I pressed both panels again.

Picture of finished curtain panels.

For the window.

From a shower curtain.

!

Oh, and I'm making curtain tie-backs

with those nests and birds you see

in the photo ... up next!!

Peace

Around the Bend ... ... ...

... as you break through the tree canopy:

and may I just say, WOO HOO!!!

So, we've built a barn in the middle of nowhere,

to store Doc's collection of vehicles

and tools and stuff, and

to house my Neatly Organized Art Studio.

Which will always be Neatly Organized.

I'm convinced if I keep saying that over and over

and capitalize the letters, it will

magically come true.

We all need a dream, right??

This is the build-out inside the barn ... prior to roofing.

And this is the build-out inside the barn,

after roofing and insulation installation.

And there is a funny story behind this rubber snake.

Yes, it's a rubber snake -

permanently stapled onto the window frame

of my laundry room.

Apparently, one of my kids, who shall remain

nameless, mostly because I can't be certain

exactly which one of my kids did this,

took a rubber snake out to the barn one evening.

And positioned it onto the second story

with just its head hanging over the edge.

You can imagine what the first guy

on the scene the next morning thought.

Well, at least "I" can imagine what the first guy

on the scene the next morning thought,

because I thought it the next evening when

the-one-who-shall-remain-nameless

positioned it on the top step and then led

me over to the stairwell.

Jimminy Yee Haw!!!

Is what I yelled, clutching my chest

to hold my heart inside of it.

Or something like that.

Needless to say, after a few days

of mutual snake-positioning by both the

day time workers and he-who-shall-remain nameless,

we showed up one evening to find the

rubber snake ruthlessly and permanently stapled

to the window of my laundry room.

Moving on to more exciting pics,

THIS is soon to be my Neatly Organized Art Studio!!!

After insulation installation, and prior to sheet rock.

I. Am. So. Happy.  (sniff)

... Peace Out ...

New Beginnings

New Beginnings

My mid-year New-Year's Resolution(s):

* Post More Frequently

* Be Creative More Often

* Organize, Organize, Organize!!!

and, most importantly,

* STAY ORGANIZED *

I tend to go through what I like to call

Organizing Blitzes -

where I thoroughly organize a particular

area, such as my pantry or a

closet: then I almost immediately

spoil it by stacking more crap

in it until it's an unrecognizable mess.

I use the three rules of organization

STORE * DONATE * TRASH

Actually, I don't even know the three

rules of organization, I just made that up.

I either want to store (read: organize)

the crap, donate the crap to someone who

can use it, or trash the crap.

Right now I'm mentally organizing my

new studio.  Basically,

since I have significant random memory loss

and have absolutely no clue what I 

have in my two studios at any moment in time,

I'm just vowing to myself to

really, truly, and absolutely,

ORGANIZE my crap when I get it in there,

DONATE the crap that no longer inspires me,

and THROW AWAY the crap that is,

well, just ... CRAP.

The road in this pic leads to ...

My New Beginning.

My New (and final) Studio.

My Creative Cocoon.

My Paradise.

My Happy Place.

My Reason for Living.

(just kidding about that one)

Here it is:

That was THEN.

And, this is NOW:

Same road, different month.

It's almost time!!