Garden of Thought

The pantry is finished up! The oversized bird-of-paradise made a good focal point, all of it will be behind metal wire shelves so it had to pop to still show up like I wanted it to. It's crazy enough for a nice zap of color when I want one but not out in daily use so it doesn't overwhelm the overall house feel.

The furnace hole was covered with a painted ceiling tile, and the embedded pipe was capped and painted white, I think I'll probably attach something dangly to it with magnets. Oh, and I put a giant wooden banana cutout over the door because everyone needs a giant wooden banana cutout over their pantry door.



Voila!

Wow, how did I let this much time lapse over here? Funny how our online habits make us go wandering off sometimes. I've mostly been working on our new house and it's a real time-sucker sometimes.

It was almost entirely grey inside when we got it - putty grey ceilings, walls, grey carpets. I swapped out black light fixtures for crystal ones and put in carpets in minty aqua, forest green, cream and fern-leaf textured golden tones. Walls went from light grey to green, pink, yellow, blue and aqua and then the fun began of painting accents and murals!

SUPER time consuming but I've really enjoyed the new look. And since we've had issues with water pipes and furnaces to take care of it helped fill that time so I wasn't so antsy about moving taking so very long.

First project was the grey ceiling of the third bedroom we're using as the art/hobby/guest room:



And while waiting for the various layers to dry on that one, here's what I was up to at the other end of the house. I was thinking "kind of art nouveau" and this is what I ended up with:

When Starflower moved out this past fall I thought "Oh boy, her bedroom has the best windows, maybe I can make a little corner for Art and Arting and stuff!"
Then hubby filled it up with his whatnot instead.  Boxes of...??  Partially functioning computer stuff, audio recording stuff, barbershop costumes on a rack, suitcases, etc. etc.... and being the sort that is easily dissuaded from stuff that only benefits me personally, I let it go.

This week I rolled up my figurative sleeves, went in there and did some serious rearranging and stacking.  Put up a card table near the windows, set out all my watercolor supplies.  Did three pieces of amateur Art and left them there to dry.  This morning I heard my hubby tell my son "Could you close the windows in the studio? I'm turning on the A/C." 

I ran that back in my head with great satisfaction - "Close the windows in the STUDIO...."  Yeeee!
^_^

I've spent far too many hours on these this week, but here they are, shiny and ready for all the DW fans on DW. ;-) Feel free to use - more fabulous sheep may be found at the dreamsheep community.

SheepDoctors by the Number:
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( All Eleven under the Cut )

SheepDoctors, Unnumbered on Plain backgrounds:
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( All Eleven plus bonus Fez option under the Cut )

All SheepDoctors with Colored Backgrounds:
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( Tardis Blue for all, plus a few extra Variations under the Cut )

Haven't done a meme for a while, this one seems to have reached out a tentacle and snagged part of my evening - I blame curuchamion and lothithil equally for this.

How it's supposed to work:
A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same. (Nah.... what if they're busy and it just annoys them?)
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it." (Sure you can! There isn't even a curse of toenail fungus or anything threatening to zot you either way)

( So here's seven snatches of the fabric of my days, or er... something. )

I finally got motivated to clean out the various cupboards, boxes and bags of mixed craft stuff I have, some of it dating from 20+ years back - filled three grocery bags so far (feathers, pom-poms, magnetic strips, beads, etc. etc.) with stuff to donate to our church kid's program. Yikes! So much! A lot of it is from when my own kids were little - they've outgrown pony-beads, popsicle sticks and pipe-cleaners now, though I am keeping my button collection just because...well, I like buttons.

Good to have it go somewhere it can be used. The number of kids at church has been growing, thankfully.

Anyone else tend to be a 'crafty' gatherer? Is there such a thing as anyone who really uses up all those fun little doohickies picked up at craft stores in a weak moment?