Fine Art

I need to go ahead and retire so I can spend all my time playing house.  I always have a long list of things I want to do and everything takes longer than expected.  Thankfully, Janice is in this too, and she does all the work!  Anyway - yesterday we made some progress:  

I finished painting the cabinetry in the master bathroom.   Here are the drawers drying in the sun.

You can also see in that photo the blades of the ceiling fan from the other bedroom. They had been painted blue, so I made them white again. I love how much better it looks. Paint really is a wonderful thing.  While I worked very hard on painting a drawer, Princie painted in the other bedroom:

There she is, painting the ceiling.  (roughly equivalent to a drawer in my book)  Once she got that done, we decided to install a better light bulb:

 

It is very gratifying to see how things look better after every light bulb is changed.  Princie continued to work on the bedroom while I had the happy job of doing some painting around the new light fixture and getting it finished up.  Now it looks like this:

I wasn't able to get a good photo of it with the light on, but, Yay! it works! Pay no attention to the paint on the mirror.  Unless you like that look, in which case, I meant to do that and will leave it there if you wish.

So then it was time to install the terrific sparkly knobs that I keep talking about.  I will miss carrying them around the house and playing with them.  We will absolutely have to get some more sparkly things.  Sparkly has replaced plaid as my favorite color.

This might be my favorite picture I have ever taken with my phone.  So the master bath is now done except for the fun decorating part! woo hoo! I'm thinking one of those shower curtains with all the ruffles.

On to the other bathroom.  It's right next to the other bedroom.  Which is where Princie is still working!  Let's see what she's doing now!

Ohhh, the purple is going on!  How exciting!  Doesn't it look great with the yellow?  Of course the yellow won't be staying.  The rest of  the walls will be white. We hopefully will get to that today.

In case you've been wondering what Terry was up to while we worked so hard, he dropped by for a cocktail:

I think he's waiting for someone to refill his beverage.  He was also admiring this bowl we found at the thrift store:

Isn't that great?  On the bottom it says Susan Branch and on the inside bottom it says something about simplicity in cooking.  It's really pretty and we think it will look great in the kitchen.  And it was only three dollars!

Well, the sun started to go down so we decided to quit for the day.  I tried to get a photo of the fabulous sunset but it was hard to capture.  It was all pink and purply and beautiful.   Here's what I did get. Janice thought that house made it look as if there is a mountain view. If so, it's a flat-on-top mountain, sort of like the one in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Maybe I need a better phone/camera. ha.  As you can see, there are now NO leaves on your trees and I can't wait for them to come back. 

love, Vicki