What's Up Wednesday?

It's already middle of the week!  Where does time go?  I have been busier than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest for months now.  I thought by  now, I would be well into relaxation mode.  But no...this is not to be.  
I had my hair done yesterday by my daughter, Gennifer.  I always love to go for a fresh "do", but I hate to sit there looking into that mirror at the woman before me who I sometimes don't even recognize anymore.  She is fluffier, grayer,and more wrinkled and tired looking than ever before.  WHO is she?  When it was time for me to go sit under the dryer, I took my readers out of my purse and sat down next to two stacks of magazines and after shuffling through them, realized that there wasn't a ding dang thing in those that I cared to read.  In Style, Fashion, Vogue, Us, Hair....etc..etc...etc....I took my glasses off, and shut my eyes instead, enjoying a few minutes of meditation. 
Speaking of magazines, these are much more the norm here in my house.

I am long past the fashion magazines.  I love pretty clothes, just like the next girl, but I have never kept up on the latest trends in clothing and fashion.  My girls take after their Grandma, my Mom, in the clothes loving department.  I would much rather cruise the aisles of Home Depot than the mall, ANY day!!!
I also have large stacks of cooking magazines that I refer to often.

And in my sewing room are big baskets filled with these.

As well as a fair amount of these.

However, I will say, that since I have become addicted to Pinterest, I have not purchased a single magazine!
Let's see, what else is going on here?  I remade my living room curtains the other day.  I had bought an entire bolt of this fabric, thankfully.  I made them the first time and thought I could stitch witch the entire thing.  NOPE....that did not look finished.  I left them hanging that way for far too long, and knowing we were having company last weekend, I bit the bullet and re cut and made new panels, this time sewing them properly.

I love how they are just skimming the floor.   I also removed the rod and rings, and painted the brassy clips in Oil Rubbed Bronze.   Now they are SO much better.

If  you want to do a curtain rod very inexpensively, you can do what I did.  I purchased a length of closet grade doweling.  I had them cut it to size.  I then painted it in chocolate.  And used chocolate rings.  I purchased the brackets in the blinds department of Home Depot, and then painted the finials I already had in Oil Rubbed Bronze and screwed them into the ends of the rod. 
While I had my ORB out, I repainted this old pot rack that was my Mom's.  I remember it hanging up in the kitchen in the house where I grew up. 

Aha...so much better don't you think?

At Knitty Bitties the other day I crocheted this dishcloth to match my new dish towel.   I have knitted a lot of dish cloths, but never crocheted them before.  I think I will do more this way.

That burlap piece I showed the other day, found it's way into a little patio pillow.

I was going to use a method I had seen on Pinterest to copy the saying to my burlap.  You iron a piece of freezer paper to your burlap and then after choosing your font and arranging your saying,  you run it through your printer.  However, our printer being of the dark ages, did not allow for the thickness to feed through the machine.  I got it all goobered  up!!!  So I just took a black Sharpie and wrote it.  Unfortunately, I don't have pretty writing!  But I used it anyway.
This is the back.  A little piece of red and ecru toile.

While I was out on the porch taking pictures, Maui, my pretty calico kitty wanted some attention too.

You can see in the reflection of the window that my jasmine has exploded!  The smell as you walk up to our front door is heavenly.

Sunday when our guests left, we sent them all home with oranges and lemons and grapefruit and avocados.  And since I had accumulated a few dozen eggs, I sent them each home with some of those too.  Luckily, by this morning, I already had my pretty blue anthro dish all filled up, and then some.

The other day after I had gone to get more chicken feed, I popped into the antique shop that is next door.  I found this little gem back in the dark and dusty corners of the out building.  It set me back 3.00 dollars, and I knew just what I was going to do with it.

I stuck it in a piping hot sink of water with soap and bleach, and then put it in my sewing room to hold my accu quilt dies, and rulers for rotary cutting.  The mason jar holds white rice, and I stick my tools there that I am using so that I don't lose them on the cutting table when I am working.  I love the soft aqua color of this vintage dish drainer!
Before I go today, I want to mention a couple of nice blogging friends that gave me blog awards.  What I have decided to do instead of accepting and publishing awards, I prefer to mention a few blogs that I have found that I find fun and interesting in some way, so that I can share them with you.  So, to Heather at

The Good Life 

Thank you!  Thank you for thinking of me, and wanting to pass along the award.  I have enjoyed Heather's blog for some time now, and I hope you go over to say hello and see what beautiful things she creates with her yarn and hook.  

And also to Debb at

Crochetoholic's Crochet Place

has extended an award to me.  Thank you Debb!  Like Heather, Debb is a busy lady with hook and yarn!  Go say hi and see what she has been up to. 

Lastly, I have to say THANK YOU to Jill at

Blessings of a Stay At Home Mom 

I won a giveaway that Jill held on her blog, that was filled with Disneyland gifts for kids.  As soon as she told me I had won, I knew three little kiddos that would be thrilled to see this box come!  So when it did, I called them all over to help me open it up, and they were so excited to see those goodies inside.

Unfortunately, they were all so excited that I didn't get any good pictures!!  Here is one with my granddaughters wearing their new Minnie Mouse purses though.

Well, I told you there weren't any good pictures....but here is one of the three of them.

Okay...another bad picture.  Well they were all three in motion, and so excited to see what all was inside that box!  Thank you Jill!!!!  They were so happy!!

Time to go make some dinner for Geeps.  I  have been a bit of a slacker in the dinner making department lately.  

See you soon.

XO  Kris