More studio pictures

I'd better start putting lots of pictures on one post or I'll never get to show you all that I've been doing!

First though, I want to share some pictures of last evenings rose bounty!  The teas are my neighbors (who actually live in Texas and weren't there when I had my clippers out!)

So on the the studio.  I think after painting the walls and loveseat I started making pillows.  LOTS of pillows.


This used to be my sister's jacket!!! Hope she didn't want it back!!! 

See that purple one?  Painted and stenciled.  I also painted some smaller lime greens ones too, but I don't think they're showing up here on the bed.

This one I purchased at Pier One.  It was the inspiration for the whole room!!!

Next I ordered this cool sari yarn on Ebay.  I knitted this little mat.  (Didn't know where it was going to go yet.)

 That's an old army trunk I painted bright lime green.  I keep some hooking stuff in it.  It has a drawer on top, then an open bottom.  So much storage!  (garage sale find)  It had been in our basement for a couple of years, just waiting for the right place to put it.

Here's the whole sari and the curtains I made out of it.  I also made the bedspread out of new fabric and an old sheet as the backing!  The triangle shaped things at the top are head scarves I bought at The Library Center.  (didn't know where these were going either, just knew I Had to have them)

 Are you still with me?  Next I stitched up some pieced curtains for the two windows.  Now we're talkin' color and pattern!

Love this lamp!  It's another garage sale find.  I used spray adhesive and glued this wool on and added the fringe at the bottom.  I dyed this wool in a deep fryer.   
You roll it up and put it in the pot with one color until it absorbs all of the first color.  Then take it out, re-roll and put another color of dye in the pot and do the same thing over and over again until you have as many colors as you like!  I'm sorry, I can't remember if this is Wanda Kerr's recipe or Jane Green's.  It is soooo time consuming, but the end results are well worth the hard work.

Now on to the bed.  We had this twin bed frame already.  But I wanted to "build it in" to have a little cozy place to read and watch TV.  The headboard part is plywood that I wallpapered in this great textured paper.  Then we cut the top part (across the front) from plywood too.  Added the little three inch wide shelves and some rope lights. 


I like the metal sculpture at the foot of the bed.  It reminds me of wool.  You can see I hung two curtain rods and hung lots of my dyed quarter yards.  The rest of my stash is on the big metal shelving unit I got from Tammy (next to the loveseat)


Oh yeah.....I painted a floorcloth too!  You take a piece of vinyl flooring and turn it over upside down.  That leaves a nice soft place to paint on.  I put three coats of clear on top.


See Jimmie Dean's little stool so he can get up on the bed with me!!!

 You can barely see the texture of the wallpaper, but it's cool!  My Shabby Sheep logo rug and my garage sale Mary paint by numbers. 

I'll show you other views tomorrow.  See, I told you I crammed Lots of stuff in a tiny room!  One of my friends I hadn't seen in a long time called me a hoarder.  I call it efficiency.

Talk to you tomorrow!

Peace,
 Sheri 










  

The county fair!

Hi Ya'll. You know I don't think I've ever used the word ya'll. This whole county fair thing has me being a real country gal. Last night we went to the Ozarks Empire Fair. We had a ball. I thought I would show you some pics of the exhibits we enjoyed. Mostly rugs, some quilts and cross stitching, etc.

This next quilt blew my husband away! He's still talking about it this morning. We can't tell exactly how she did the faces. Are they printed on the farbic, like a transfer?

Do you recognize her? She's mine and she got a second place ribbon!! Talk about humbling.

We loved the cardinal. Hmm... that would go in my house. I'm so sorry the names of the artists didn't show up in the photos.

We've got talent in these Ozarks hills...

This is Renee's from our hooking group. I love proddy but haven't done it yet.This is hers too. A girl after my heart... a pink lamby. I'm such a girl. LOL

Best primitive design. I love it!

OK, this blew ME away.... my dh (Mickey) said, "hey Sheri come down here and look at this rug... it has three ribbons on it.......... AND IT'S YOURS!!!!" Really, I almost fell over when I saw it. I totally did this for fun with NO expectations of a ribbon. This rug hangs in our living room and I told him I'm keeping the ribbons on it when we hang it back up!

A lady in a nearby booth heard me squealing and offered to take our picture.

Ok no more bragging, but I've never won anything in my life. Back to the other talented artists......the next group is collage and painting.

We ate foot long corndogs..with a diet coke ...it cancels out the calories you know. Then I had to have a funnel cake, but we ordered it on the way out of the fair. It was too hot to sit on my lap, but I managed.

Great fun for a couple of old folks on a Friday night. If you have a county fair near you, by all means go. If nothing else to look at the people. That's a whole other story!!

Take care and...

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Sheri