The Bedroom is complete!

The Bedroom is complete! Definately needs some artwork...that will be a project down the road..figure I can get some old canvas prints from the Mission and paint my own artwork over them for a truly "ME" space! And then eventually some more BR furniture.

And as quickly as the BR was done, it was on to the bathroom floor!

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Exhausting Day!

But well worth it! no pics yet, cuz I didn't quite finish, still have half of the BR floor to paint, but here's a couple pics of Kayley playing dress up on my bed after I got it moved infront of the windows...





Since I ran out of the sunflower yellow paint, and just was not content with a 1/2 painted room, I got to scrounging around in the basement and came across a full can of Lilac colored paint! This led me to painting the last two walls, and then I wasn't content enuf to end there either, I went and painted over the yellow of the South wall, leaving only the "Window Wall" with the yellow, as an accent wall. This, of course, led me to the decision to move the bed to the "Window Wall". It was fate! It's definately awesome and more "me" instead of just like I was settling for what was on hand...even though the Lilac was on hand too, but I think purple is definately my "Power Color"...I will be very relaxed in this room.

I still have the other half of the floor to do today, which I might add, is turning out truly grand! A garden of sage green at my feet! Feels and looks so much better than that filty Lighthouse Blue that was there! There will not be one drop of blue paint in my room when I'm done..just a garden of colors! Some arranging and primping tonite after the floor dries, and hopefully then I will have some good pics to post! I also have lots of cleaning, laundry and wallies to hang in the kitchen today, and I'm getting absolutely none of this done sitting here..so TTFN!

Before and After-Bedroom

Okay...so it wasn't the "perfect beige"...SORRY ASH! It turned out to be more of a sunflower yellow (imagine that! with the sunflower kitchen!) Still goes well with the curtains, and it covers up that dirty disgusting white! Kayley was tickled pink! She came upstairs and said "Mom...I'm surprised! I didn't think it would be YELLOW! I will want to come in here all the time!" (Yellow is her FAV!) I'm in no way DONE! I ran out of the paint..still have to paint a wall and a 1/2! Also, I decided to paint the floor trim and floor the dark sage green...in keeping with the colors in the curtains...and gone will be all the BLUE!

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Before and After Kitchen Photos

There was paint cans left here in the new home from the previous tenant, so I got to looking yesterday and found a whole can of white to do the kitchen and trim in my BR, also the perfect tan color for the BR walls. Yesterday I spent the day painting the kitchen. Here are some before and after photos!

Gone are those blue cabinets!

Bye Bye Blue-Sponge-Technique-Wainscotting!

I was also physically able to paint most of the BR Balcony door, then I looked about seeing all that blue trim ahead of me and just had to stop for the night! Way too much blue in this house, let me tell ya! Please be sure to click on the pics to see a larger view!

Happy Thanksgiving!

From L to R (clockwise around the "Kid's Table") Daughter-Kayley, Son-Dakota (sitting low on a foot stool, waiting his turn at a "big boy real chair"), Nephew-Thane, Niece-Kimmy, soon to be Niece-in-law-Denise.

The Adult Couch! To the left, soon to be Nephew's MIL-Coleen, and the cook...my SIL-Rose.

Me, alone with my icky germs and a huge plate of food! Umm Umm good!

First Snow Fall Winter 2005

Here is our first snow fall this winter, woke up to it this Thanksgiving morning, not much but was nice. Now that I put the valances up and opened the blinds for the front room, I was able to see right out front this morning. Twas nice!

Going to bro's house for TG dinner, I'm just too sick to prepare a meal. This is the third strain of virus, obviously brought home with my lovely daughter from her little school friends! I haven't felt normal since the end of August! Sick and tired of being sick and tired! Antibiotics didn't stop me from getting this last bout which started Tuesday, 4 days into the antibiotic!

A very depressing dream

Here is the dream: After a separation, I came back in contact with Jake, and pretty much coerced him to remarry me. I planned a big elaborate wedding, however the wedding went on without him being there, someone stepped in for him since it was Saturday night and that was one of his nights that I had accepted as he nights to be at Tommy’s PourHouse (the bar his ex-girlfriend frequented). After the wedding, there was picture taking and the reception, which I felt real uncomfortable about, that’s when it dawned on me that I had made a very foolish mistake marrying him without him even being there. I remember looking at my ring, it was our old engagement ring, but the band was all bent up. After the wedding day, I was then at an elementary school, and I was harassing him about not being at the wedding, instead being at the bar. He wouldn’t budge on his “accepted nights out”, and there was some threat about me being around him too much, that he could have me arrested for contempt of the PFA. Then all of a sudden we were at a campground, and he kept taking off, and I found him to be with his ex-girlfriend. I wanted to fight her, but he stuck up for her, and continued talking about his “accepted nights out” and my contempt of the PFA, I walked away defeated and really mad, took off the ring and put it in my pocket, determined to never wear it again since it was a “sham marriage” anyhow.

What I think this dream meant: I think that it has to do with my mourning of my "dream wedding" ending in divorce! As I said, the dream was like a "sham marriage", much the way I feel about our real life together. And the "acceptance of his nights out" came from a phone call I had with my best GF lastnight...she is continously accepting very poor treatment from her BF, he is very controlling, jealous and a cheat. I feel he suffers from a seriously guilty concious, since he has cheated on her every year of their relationship and even impregnated two other girls who he SWORE he was not having relations with, yet she blames herself for these girls having his children, because it was during one of their short separations when she put him out of the house because she had suspected him of cheating! Her suspicions were obviously correct! My GF enables him so much, and continues to take him back because she needs help with the three kids she now has to him, she has her hands full trying to provide for them and take care of them, and he does NOTHING other than lets her take an occasional nap here and there, but even then he does not take care of the kids the way she feels he should. Also, she cannot accept the idea of him going to another girl after leaving her, only to live "high off the hog"...to her it's like loosing the battle, because he does not "learn a lesson" from her putting him out! He just picks up with another girl, lives off of her, and then my GF is left with nothing but three kids to support! So, after her phone call, I guess it really got me to thinking of the laziness that I accepted from my DH, supporting him and giving into his "toy buying" while neglecting household expenses, and how I came to find out that he had been sneaking around behind my back going to the bar where his ex-girlfriend and her family frequents! I feel like such a fool! He attempted to make me feel that I was a rotten mother, an alcoholic, a nag and *B* for not allowing him "freedom to have friends", he use to harrass me about my ex-BF and demand life-altering changes in order to ease his on insecurities about the ex-BF while he continued to have contact with his ex-GFs...but out of all of it...I was the wrong one for not seeing where it was all headed in the first couple months of the relationship when he suddenly moved in with me as an escape in paying his sister the money he owed her for living with her!

Mail Art (Several Pieces)

Bare with me, I have a few pieces of mail art to show off today, now that my postal forwarding order is kicking in!

The first came November 14th from Ruggero Maggi of Milano, Italy. A really cool black and white postcard titled "Shadow's Veil" Can't see it too well in my pic, sorry but it looks to be of an Afghan?? (maybe?) man fully veiled reaching down for something, he looks to be surrounded by plants and mountains...really kewl B&W photography, also R. Maggi sent an xray type pic of ants?? Hmm? maybe a bunch of ants were crawling across the top of a photocopier?

From A Braunschweig in Corrales, NM I received quite a few baby fairy stickers and a Business Guide Map for the Carrales Area Her mailing envelope was pretty neat as well, with all the rubber stamping! Have to get me some of them!

Last but definately not least! I got a little shadow box from Sue H. in TN! So awesome cool...loved the gold ribbon and her clay forms are just excellent! Thanks Sue, I'll definately have it in the kitchen window to remember you always! Not like I could possibly forget 'cha!....

Bedroom Curtains!

My back is killing me, need to take some more advil and stretch out across the bed. I will change the bedding and hang up some clothes still laying packed on the BR floor tomorrow. Thinking of painting the floor white?? I don't know? Well, I do, but it's just not in the budget yet, so I guess I should just wait until I have all my ducks in a row! Anyhow, here are some before and after pics of my curtains, so glad they are done!

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After taking Kayley to the bus this morning and then doing some business downtown, I got to come home and spend all day on my bedroom curtains! and I mean it was literally all day, I still have one small panel to do yet. Only other things that happened today was Dakota's physical for the swim team, then he went off to school and the Landlord showing up. He mentioned to me that DH did in fact call him; however he wasn't home so DH just left a message on his machine and he didn't know what DH was talking about. Yeah, I can imagine that...DH always mumbles so low that you could never make out what he was saying! I really pitty him if he ever does try to carve out a business of his own before going back to school and taking some type of Business Communications course...he can't speak worth crap! Poor Guy! ;-)

Artist Trading Book

I also received my Artist Trading Book from Haje about two weeks ago, just now getting to it! My book is #5, dated Oct 24, 2005, in it she wrote a little note "Hi! Fill up as many pages you wish, then pass the book on to anyone you like. Have Fun! -Haje" and on the back it instructs you where to return when all the pages are filled up! And it will be published on her blog at http://poststop.blogspot.com/ Can't Wait!

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Mail Art from Sue

Here is the Mail Art that I received from my friend Sue in Tennessee (one of my Gabbies). I have to apologize, I received this way back when hubby got "hammered", life was in an uproar for a few weeks now since then, but I'm settling into the new place, my camera is functional again, and I have time once again to get to work with this wonderful Mail Art fascination! Sue did an awesome job, and mine came in perfect condition through the mail! All glittery and stuff!

The Gang is all Back!

Well, there really is something to this "freedom" from relationships! I feel so liberated! I can hang out and socialize with whomever I choose! Whenever I want, and don't have to get into a big ol' fight over it! A bunch of my "old" friends were over yesterday, we sat around just BSing, even my son joined in! They have all known him since he was two years old, so it's actually pretty neat that he can join in with the "Big Boys", to see him sitting there just holding a conversation on his own. We ended up going to a local strip club (don't ask me why...we just went for something to do!) First time I ever went to one, wasn't too bad, but I wasn't watching the floor show either! Kevin and I had a great time, just like old times, and I really need that and missed it all this time! I don't need a husband or boyfriend that just wants to change me or stifle what I want to do or be!

Camera is working again!

Now that my cam phone modem is back up and running, I can get back into taking pics and posting them. I will take pics of interior rooms of our new home as I finish working on them.

So first would be the living room, that is pretty much all done, except for painting down the road...it has beautiful stenciling work and I want to save the integrety of that but maybe tone down the RED flowers a bit! My LR is ultra comfy now with the curtains in place and I went with all my black and leopard print items which WAS in my BR..

I put a small reading light over the couch, an excellent spot to relax and work on cross stitch, crochet, or a book...

I absolutely love the stairwell (although it is missing one rail, gotta talk to Dan about getting that replaced, I'm looking forward to decorating that this Christmas. I found this red chair in the basement, added it to the living room to bring out the red in the stenciled flowers, want to make some throw pillow covers in the same color The BR will have a whole other theme now that I used the Leopard stuff in the LR...I suppose it's all meant to be, as Ash has been telling me thru her reading that my BR should be purples, creams and golds anyhow! The blue window trim and blue painted hardward floor DEFINATELY has to GO!

Move is Complete

We are now officially all moved in! It was quite an adventure, four loads in a very large truck, two guys and only my son helping out...of course no one else showed up, but it's done. The washer was a real pain getting up out of the basement, I thought for sure the thing would be totally destroyed, but they had to partially take it apart to get it up out of the old basement and a hose came loose that I wasn't aware of, Able Maytag man, Bob, came and fixed that for $45. The mover came back another day with my daughter's swingset, my trash cans, and my potted plants. I have some plants that I dug up as well that need to get into the ground with a quickness! I was told the weather may be a little on the mild side today, so hopefully I can get out there and get that done! I will definately need to invest in a better lawn mower and weed wacker in the spring...shoot, probably now is the time to buy, but it's not in the budget right now! I have been trying to empty boxes, or walk around the ones that I don't quite know what to do with yet. I put up some curtains downstairs today, makes the LR much comfier and cozier! More lived in and warm! I'm gonna tackle that kitchen today, as well. Thinking about a dark sage green paint that I have for the cabinets, I want to use my sunflower wallies, and eventually I will need new kitchen curtains, right now I only have the pink. Haven't had anytime at all for my mailart. My "creative space" just is not in a "creative way" yet, and all my "stuff" is still in boxes...I'm surrounded by paperwork and bills that really needs my attention! UGHHH! Not a very "creative atmosphere"..pretty negative actually!

The Big Move is On!

The Big Move is on...barring any last minute problems! But the kids and I won't be moving with DH hubby! Last weekend there was a major blow up around here ending with dh threatening my son and getting physical with me again after a very loud screaming match which started out by his usual Verbal Abuse after I simply told him something that happened during the day while he was out. Apparently, he doesn't give a rat's ass how I feel, and he feels he can speak to me any old way he wants to, this led to an all out argument over everything under the sun! I can't live like that anymore, it affects me terribly and obviously affects my kids more than I cared to believe, and my 16 (almost 17 y/o) wasn't having it anymore and told dh how it was, then dh went after him attempting to antagonize my son into a physical confrontation, telling my son that he had to get out of the home and never come back or dh would beat his ass! I had to physically put myself in between the two of them and hold this 6'4" 275 lb grown man back off of my son, while dh continued to push and shove me around to get at Dakota. His day will come, it will definately come, and he is going to be real sorry he ever treats people the way he does while he sits around and does nothing but play on his computer and run the streets, going to bars where his ex-girlfriend and her family frequents all the time! Anyhow, the kids and I moving into the new home, and it will be a fresh start for all of us. DH is not needed, he has been nothing but an added expense for quite some time with all his many fines, the extra food bill, water bill, all his "toys" that he must have, and just all the extra effort in my life to clean up after him, cook for him, wash dry and fold his laundry! So, I will be offline for a few days, hoping to be back on by Monday!