making new cushion covers for Steph's loveseat

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I had some help, cutting out pieces for Steph's new loveseat cushions!

my thrift store finds

....on a TS shopping spree one day, with my daughter and her boyfriend's young daughter, I picked up quite a few wooden items, thinking I'd paint them, and paint "prim pictures" on them....

here's Ugly Betty, with the wooden bowls... I think she was waiting for me to fill them up with her food!!!!

Here's a picture of some of my finds.... can you tell I love all things wood???
A set of 4 needlepoint/wooden coasters, never taken out of the pkg! I'll have to think about what the needlework pattern will be that I'll do on these....

An Old Maid Card Game, with all the cards there! {for Arianna}

An owl needlework project, never started... {my mother collected/loved owls when I was young, It'll prob'ly be a gift for her...}

3 wooden salad bowls, a fourth one a little differently shaped~straight sided and polyurethaned, unlike the others! and a cute little scalloped edged wooden bowl, also poly'ed.

A mirror to hang on the wall with a flowered knob.

A tiny display piece with 8 little shelves...I fell in love with this little display shelf, I'm thinking thimbles will go perfectly in each little hole!

And I only own 2 decorative ones {and my 1 metal one which I use!!!}.....so, uh-oh, that means I'll be searching for thimbles now, too, whenever I'm out at the TS's and antique shops!!!

And, a flag.... the autumn wreath fabric is actually one of those little flags, {I finally broke down and got myself a stake to hang them on~that's another story, I'll post another time!!} This flag was 10cents! {wow!<>

the mirrored thing, i picked up, thinking it'd make a gift for Steph.... {she saw it in my pile at the store! and said, "oh, that's so cute, I want it!!" so I guess I thought right with that!!!}

For now, I've removed the flowered knob so that i could sand it all down, and it's ready for paint!

here's a facebook entry from today...

ok, so maybe my artistic {painting pictures!} skills aren't as good as the pictures i can "see" inside my head!!! LOL! I tried painting a picture on the first bowl, Steph & Ari were here, too, Steph told me it looked good, but I don't think so!!! .....so i left it overnight, thinking i'd see if it looks any better to me after walking away for a while.... {I don't dare go back and look again, I'm sure I'll still think it's bad!!!} So, instead, I am working on my grandmother's table...yes, it still is waiting for me to finish!!! ...so i sanded until the battery died on my sander!!! Now, it's charging, and i've been hand sanding, and working on a couple other small sanding projects.... {woops, i wrote way tooooo much for you fb people!!! I should have put this in my blog instead.... maybe i will try to cut & paste!!}

so, as you see, I did cut and paste my fb entry, and actually took the time to put it in my blog!

my grandmother's table

The first time I saw it, I asked my grandmother if I could have it if she ever decided to get rid of it!

That was in Vermont, back in the late 80's probably... She died in the 90's and I think that must have been when I got it....

{Now, mind you, what you are looking at is not what I saw... This was hidden inside!! }

...See the 4th picture down?? That's what I fell in love with!!! I had no idea that this cute little desk was hidden inside!!!!! And, oh, how excited I was to see that the desktop even slides in and out!!!!

When I got this table, I used it for my laptop alot,...for some of my treasured Christmas houses some years, ...for my daughter's wedding cake in '03....,as a "catchall"/knickknack table in front of my "half-wall" in my living room...

I really don't ever remember "really cleaning" it.... I mean, REALLY scrubbing the years of grime from it... {It really wasn't that bad!} But after selling my house in VT in Dec.2006, and leaving all of my stuff in storage until Oct. 2008, I was so excited to have all my "stuff" here in Florida~right in my backyard!!! {in a shed.}