Wood Wednesday: Master Bedroom

I have not fallen off the face of the earth. If you follow my blog, you know that April was CRAZY. Added to that, we got a new computer, so I had to update EVERYTHING. Then blogger was down for a while. Well you get the picture...I have had trouble blogging. I think I have it all settled .

So welcome to Wood Wednesday!

When my husband leaves town, I usually go crazy with decorating in the house. He never sees my vision. I have to have the completed project.

I have had an idea for a headboard for our master bedroom for several months years. We have lived in this rent house for nearly 3 years. I worked very hard to make the rest of our house very homey as you have seen here and here and here.

Now it was time to make the master bedroom a little more inviting. I had updated the curtains to fit this house.

Our house in Bridge City only had valences over the windows. When we moved here, I bought ready made curtains at Tuesday Morning. I cut them just below the tabs and added the valance material. 

I had made all the bed linens several years ago, but we did not have a headboard. The nightstands we use were my parents' when I was growing up. The doors on the nightstands have louvers. 

That is real distress!

I decided that I would make the headboard out of louvered doors. I collected several sets of doors and just began attaching them to the wall. I never have a really clear plan. I just jump right in and start.

I started with this vintage window. I did the original watercolor and put it behind the window glass.

I had put the lamps up when we moved in. They were put up with molly-bolts, so they had to stay in the same place. I drilled holes in the doors for the bolts to go through. That determined the place where these doors would be located. I then had to add reclaimed red fence pickets to fill the spaces. Here is the final design.

This is part of my collection of signed Tom Clark statues. I love them. They did not make it through hurricane Ike very well. They still have some Gulf of Mexico mud in the crevices. If I scrub very hard, they mess up. Any suggestions?

On our 25th wedding anniversary, in 1998, my husband gave me 50 roses. The card was poetic but basically it said, 25 dark roses for the first 25 years of my life without you, 25 light roses for the 25 years for light with you. The white rose was for the last year, the brightest of all. Isn't he wonderful. This vase of silk roses is to represent the bouquet he gave me. I dried the original bouquet and I still have that too.

On the side wall I have one of my mother's watercolors. I definitely come by my talent honestly.

Here are some more pictures of the finished (maybe) headboard wall.

And now you see why I am "House Proud". I think I have been watching too much Nate Berkus.

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Fabric Friday: Beaded Necklace

YEAH!!!! Blogger is back!!!!

I now have a reputation for taking anything that people no longer want. This post is about jewelry. I take broken, outdated, ugly jewelry and rework it into something beautiful.

Not a very good picture. The middle section came from someone. I just added the outer third.

Tomorrow is Art in the Park in Friendswood, TX. I will show original watercolors, fabric flowers, necklaces and boo-boo-bunnies.

Wood Wednesday: Original Wall Art

 This small town where I grew up has lots of festival/ gatherings. When I was small there was always the Fourth of July parade and barbeque. After high school, I moved away. Now that we have moved back, I have noticed an explosion of festivals. Last month there was the F.I.G. (Friendswood Is Great) Festival and the Friendswood Family Festival. There was also the Catholic festival and the Heritage Gardeners spring tour. This weekend is "Art in the Park", sponsored by the Friendswood Fine Arts Institute.

FFAI also sponsored the art contest that I won last year. They offered me a free booth, so I will be at Stevenson Park this Saturday. I will have some of the same items from the F.I.G. Festival,

but the emphasis is going to be my watercolors.

Of course , I will have the "Connecting Our Community" winner.

And some others that I have at the house.

I love to paint, but what do you do with them after they are finished? I have run out of wall space. If you live in the Houston area, come to the "Art in the Park" and tell me "Hi!".

Marvelous Monday: Marvelous April

It has taken me a full week to get over April. I haven't posted a blog in 2 weeks. Now is the time to get back to business. I will make this post a review of last month.

The first weekend was our annual Bacom Reunion.  My husband was born the youngest of 3 boys to Julia and James Bacom. When both of his parents passed away, the boys decided to set aside the first weekend in April as a reunion. We have done this for about 7 years. Now Brad is the only son left. We had a nice gathering at my sister-in-law's house in Cypress, TX.

 This is my grandson and my nephew's son (I don't know his relation to me. great-nephew?) discussing who gets to ride the tricycle and who gets the firetruck. They both wanted the cool bike.

After the reunion, our grandson came home with us and his parents went back to Austin. My pregnant daughter was visiting from Oklahoma. This was a great time for aunt to get to know nephew. We had a great time playing "soutside" with the bike I just had to buy him.

The second weekend in April was my mother's 90th birthday. We had a party Saturday and over 100 people came.

The grandson went home with his parents on Sunday and my daughter left on Monday.

The third weekend I participated in the F.I.G. (Friendswood Is Great) Festival. Sunday, April 17, I began a painting at church.

On Easter Sunday I completed the painting The Brightest Dawn.

The culmination of the month of April was the Third Annual Friendswood Family Festival. I was the official coordinator, but I had lots of help. It was great. The only problem we had was electrical. When I arrived on Saturday morning at 7:00, there was no electricity. The entire neighborhood was out. We did not get electricity until 9:00 and the festival started at 10:00. We worked like crazy and it was great!

Everyone had a great time. We had an auction and bake sale and some awesome sponsors. The church and school made a profit of $8000. YEAH!! and it is over for another year.