I suppose I should look up Halloween and it's history but I am lazy today so one year I will do this. How does that sound? The weather is wonderful for here in the 80's. Perfect weather for the trick or treaters. I remember in particular one year it was cold and windy and raining but I had my candy by the door to give out just in case any came by to say TRICK OR TREAT and lots of giggles. A few came to the door and then I heard a tiny voice saying trick or treat. She might have been 5 ish. Well I thought this little goblin will be happy and can go home . I told her, with her Daddy beside her, to open her bag big and I emptied all and I mean all of the candy into her bad. She just giggled so big. I loved it. So then they could go home with a full bag.
We had lots of fun memories of this Holiday. So now we turn out our porch light, a polite way to say no candy here and just be scrooges I guess This is my only decoration for Halloween. A witch we bought one time in Branson Mo. She is kind of piggy backing on our Fall wreath. We did have to do a little surgery on her like gluing her hat on but she did survive it.
I
just finished a little Annette project, yes something for me. I have
this picture of both "Grands" and wanted to put it in my art room AKA a
room that you have to be strong to come into. It is very full. No
Really !!! It is full. I could use the basement but nope I couldn't be
close to Mr. Graves while we watch the same TV Program. I am just a
few steps away. I mean he might see something wonderful on the TV and I
miss it with my back to mine. I guess I use my "Mother eyes" and watch
while in the Art room. We do have eyes in the back of our head don't
we?
I created this on canvas and just kept adding things to it.
Now
I have just finished a giant project of painting. Lots of time on the
ladder as well as not. To me Mr. Graves did the hardest part of the
project. He took all of the doors off the cabinets and took the drawers
out. Then he put it all back together. I started in the back garage
with my painting project. We will call it Operation White. OW. I
prepped all the doors front and back and the drawer fronts. I used
special cabinet paint and some wonder liquid called flotrol Oh my
maked the paint go on like silk. The paint was drying on the doors
before I finished one coat. Mr. G said you know it is 109 in here
don't you? Well we moved every thing to the basement. Great, it was a
large clean area and cool with the vented air. I had it made in the
shade. Welllllllllll, I guess going up and down the stairs played it's
toll on my knee. So Mr.G moved everything up top to the dining area.
The new work area for me. So after a couple of weeks I was back to
painting. I had to stagger my ladder climbing to only a couple of days a
week, the knee you know. I love to paint and now will show you the
before and after of them. I also did the Master Bath white also. The
other bathrooms and utility room sported white cabinets but now we all
are in harmony. I am not finished with what we are doing with the MB
but soon that project will be finished. I did over 353 coats of
paint, counting several coats on each surface. Some got 3 coats and
some got 5 coats. I don't like thick coats and it pays off. I was
proud of it and a painter accidentally came by, wrong address. We get
that a lot out here and he looked at the cabinet fronts on the work area
and said who is doing this? I said I am and he looked again at them
and said I can't do this good. So you don't think I was a happy camper?
We
have a very open concept design in our home, I love it. I can be part
of the world while playing in the kitchen. In the house before this
one we had a giant kitchen and I didn't like that so this one is perfect
for us.
Brown cabinets are just not our thing. I want some life in here.
Here
you go nice and crisp white we love the cabinets. The paintings of the
back splash have lots of color and personality also. I think I showed
you Ellie a few posts back. I repainted the turquoise with a black
glaze on it and passed the bar stools down to be reused for years to
come. We didn't use them at all. I did try no plants etc on the top
of the cabinets for a while but nope had to have some pretties up there
. So there you go it just sings now and we are quite happy with it. We
had added the pendant lights a couple of years ago and I painted the
little caps that go up to the ceiling to match the finish on the chains
so it is good to go. Thinking about new granite but just on hold for
now with that idea. This top doesn't bother us right now.
Well there you go on what we have been up to lately. Thank you for stopping by and seeing what is going on in my world.
XOXOXO
ANNETTE
