What I have been up to lately!

I found this cute wire cloche candleholder at Michaels this week…

I love this picture of my son…he is so handsome and smart and I am so proud of him.

My mom has been visiting for the past week and she brought her dog Jack…he’s a Jack Russell Terrier (you didn’t see that coming did ya?)…

Milo is happy…he smiles like this all the time…

Jack and Milo in the sun, hey guys, if it is too hot, why not move to the shade?

I had my chimney cleaned…just had my roof replaced this fall and probably the jiggling around on the roof caused a blockage in the pipe just above the stove.  I started a fire before I realized this and had to carry the smoldering logs out after I figured out there was no air flow!  Lovely…by the way, that is a mummified bat in the left front of the stove!  Ewwww!

I made 32 washcloths from old bath towels on Saturday!

I saw this on the way to work one morning this past week, yep, I stopped and took the picture!

This holly bush was outside my dentist’s office and I have always wanted to photograph it, so I took advantage of the fresh snow to get this shot!

Jack is smiling here…the weekend after Christmas I had five smallish dogs in my 1300 square foot house!  It was wild.  I felt like I should have had a license to have that many kennels in the house. 

The three rat terriers (or the rat pack as I call them) were happy to go home at the end of the weekend!

The paperwhites are blooming wonderfully for the past 3 weeks…I planted three pots of them about 10 days apart so I have had a great show the past 3 weeks!

Painted Acorns

This is the easiest craft ever and so cute!!

Acorns painted with enamel acrylic paint…the paint is really easy to work with and it is very thick.

The lighter colors require several coats. 

Don’t the blue and green acorns look so cute in my newest cloche?

I mixed several colors together to get shades of blues and greens, two shakes of purple and a darker orange. 

Once the paint was dry, I glued them back into their little acorn caps.

Very easy and quite showy!

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Itty-Bitty Cloche

I found this hideous weensie pheasant under glass at Salvation Army ($1) Saturday.  I was looking for a sweet little tea cup and saucer for a gift basket, but didn’t find that of course.

Instead, this ugly little bird with fake grass but it was in a glass cloche with a wood base.  Isn’t it just wonderful?!

The glass wouldn’t let go of the base, so I soaked the whole mess in a cup of warm soapy water…it just popped right off then. I cleaned the glue off the base and sanded it really well.

I used a turquoise enamel I had leftover from another project…perfect color, distressed it real good after that and I was good to go!

It’s only about 4” tall and makes a great way to display a special seashell or crystal.  Oh, and can I interest anyone in a lovely pheasant?

That’s all I have for now…Hope you are having a good week!

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