Dish for fun

Doing the dishes was never more fun. They say sinks, tubs and toilets do not belong in the yard, but it is fun to break the rules. Thank God we don't have an H.O.A in our neighborhood.

bench

These are great, it can be done with any wooden head and foot board. Paint or not it is fun and sturdy.
Paint any color. Makes a great play bench for children. We painted one white with big black cow spots on it.

Bathroom clutter

PVC pipe to clean up some of the clutter in the bathroom. It works for the back of a computer desk also. bundle up the wires and put them in the tubes. Neat is Sweet!

Tubs in the Garden

Now this is not me, but what a great Idea. and you can move the garden from season to season following the sun. Your soil stay rich and use the worm farm Idea for one tub to transfer worms to your other tubs from time to time to keep your garden healthy. Drainage is Very important. drill holes in the bottom of the tubs and use the coffee filters in a bottom layer or old panty hoes to keep the dirt in and let the water out. It will also keep out other creatures you don't want in your dirt.

Herb Garden.. Herb who?

Oh yes, the good old shoe holder... That never worked for shoes. Now there are a 101 ways to use these things. So how about out side the back door herb garden. Hang on a wood fence and move from season to season for the sun needs. Or on a sturdy trellas. Now this will get a little heavy after a rain but it works GREAT!

Stop the drips.

With the holidays on the way, we here in the south so alot of outside events. (at least we do at our house) This is a plastic coke bottle cut to fit the spicket. Then spray painted any color to match your event. The dog misses the Kool Aid but I don't miss the sticky floor.

Door way to nowhere

I always wanted a corner shelf. The ones I found were all to big. These all wood doors can be found at home salvage yards. We have one local called Laymens and they have some old teak wood doors from boats which are smaller. add your shelves and paint. I think that the door knob adds a fun look. Beware! do not try this with hollow doors. And be sure to anchor the shelf unit to the wall for safety.

Plant a tree in the living room

Here is how you can plant a tree in the living room. Just a little paint and 3 book shelves. Add some family photos and here is your "Family Tree"

Have an old Tool Box?

Have an old tool box? Well I do and they are easy to find, people throw them out all of the time. I think this one with the rust is kind of fun. The bright plastic ones don't rust and will hold up for a long time. With the addition of a couple of brackets for a book shelf and  a few holes in the bottom for drainage. I stick a coffee filter or two in the bottom to let out the water and keep in the dirt.

Well you know what they say... If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.  In Southern Florida it works out the same kind of way.... If you can't stand the heat, get a good book and sit in the A/C... 

stained glass progression

With the leading done the painting begins

I am having a great fun with this office window.

I am loving the transparent view of the window with the light coming through.

It is great and there will be one more picture to enter of the finished product. It will take a few more weeks.

I wish I had the pic of this bird bath when I picked it up on the side of the road. It was brown beat up and in three pieces.

Now here it is, all painted and spiffed up with flat marbles to make it sparkle. With the addition of the top of a ceramic box to cover the well where the pump would go. The addition of a pump is always an option.

Light up the garden

Use up the old glassware thats hanging around. mount on a pole in the yard in the sun so the led light soaks up the rays. Pretty both during the day and night.

finished flat marble window

Yea! here it is all done. I know that the pic's are backwards but here they all are and I will try to get the next one's in the right order. I just love it. This is the abstract "Aura Window" on the north east end of the house.

flat marble window

Here it is almost done. I have not been much on abstract work so this is a new thing for me.

The hard part is to get just the right amount of glue on the marble and the right temp. to keep the glass.

It is a slow job. only 4 or 5 inches can be done at a time or the weight will push them right off the window.

Flat marble round-up collecting Flat marbles from every where friends have given me some great colors.

Morning Glory Vines in the kitchen.

This was a fun job, a combination of rub off transfer and paint covered with modge podge. The transfers are old and they don't really stick that well sometimes it has missing parts and that is when I get to play and add my own little touches.

Golden Thread and Silver Needles

As I shake out the quilt that is my life
I step back and look upon the bright colors
that have decorated my life.
The bright blue of the summer skies that I played under.
The autumn colors of the maple trees for all of the sweet times
shared with friends and family.
The bright yellows for the days that the sun shined and my heart sang.
Fabrics that represent days, years, hours, minutes, friends, and family
all held together with the golden thread of lessons learned
as the silver needle of time winds its way through the fabric.
What an amazing quilt this is turning out to be.
Thank you for being a part of this work in progress,
for the lessons and colors that you have added to my quilt
by being a special part of this fascinating journey.

Em Battreall

Fun art projects

A fun project that brings out my inner child. the puzzle piece is made from wallpaper, ink letters and textured paint for the sun and rays.

So who would not want to put their socks in this dresser.

Brick layers union watch out

This is a fun way to make an old sidewalk and driveway look clean and fun.
The undercoat is a brown/pink with a brick colored paint for the stones and brick.

Find a sponge mop that has a big enough square base so it looks the size of a brick.

Sidewalk, Fred Flintstone style

This is a fun project. I loved doing it. I took all of my leftover paints and dumped them into a 5gal pail and mixed it all up. I came out with a brown, tan, pink color. This I used to base coat the driveway and sidewalk.

Then I used a brick color paint to paint the blocks. I have an old plastic mold that is used to make concrete walkway. instead I turned it upside down and used it as a templet for the painting of the blocks. It looks very much like something you would see in Bedrock going up to Fred Flintstones front door. I love it.

Toolbox meets board games.

Plastic trays digaurded from board games like Monopoly can be put into the tool box to hold small items. These are very handy for both the toolbox and for crafts like beading. Thanks Pat for giving me these.

Childs Gate new birth.

When the children are gone and the do is trained, what to do with the gate that kept them out of the kitchen or away from the stairs?

How about add some craft wire. Put it on the back of a door and make it a jewlery center.

A piece of white felt held on the door with some tacks makes a great place to put post earings. "just saying"

The view changes when you knock down the walls

Now the Idea behind this mural was that you can take down the blocks that we have built in our lives and our view of the world will change. But the view will be just as good or even better.

Spiritual minded people should get it.

Angels move in and out of our lives.

These two are on their way out of the window. Off to better places Light as air and transparent as an angel should be.

Have a pedestal that is broken on the edges?

A nieghbor of ours put out this pedestal the edges where broken/chipped and the top glass piece was gone.
So I took it home and flipped it over. It was hollow so I stuffed the bottom of it with some crushed up cans to lighten up the weight of it. then filled it with good dirt and some spinach seeds. It grew great. I need to hose off the sand from the outside where the rain has splashed the dirt on the side. But the Spinach is GREAT!!

What to do with extra fence.

This is what I did with a piece of extra fence we had from the front yard. Our house did not have any numbers on it, so this is the way we have our numbers displayed. I think it is great because you just don't see this everywhere.

Sidewalk Sale find

What a find, I went to a sidewalk sale downtown St. Pete. And what did I find? A heavy metal frame sculpture from the Vinoy back in the days that it was in ruin. Yes I payed 6.00$ for it and then came home and painted it with the contrast colors of the house.

Wall mural of 17'X 12' Harmony Church Tampa

I was in a meeting yesterday and was asked if I had the wall murals on the blog. Well I found that I could not find them on the blog or they were so far back that no one would want to go through the trouble of looking for them.

I don't have all of the pictures of the wall murals a Harmony so I guess I need to ask if I can take some more pictures of the walls.

Fan Blades and some other junk.

What to do with some old fan blades, screws leftover from putting up PVC fence, plastic tube and some scrap wood found on the side of the road.
Just a few cuts of the wood and put in the screws with the tube as a spacer and there you go, a glass holder for stemware over the sink.

Two views of the glass holder. I like the fan blades, they also match the fan that hangs in the kitchen.