Looking around the house today (in the spare room of H E double hockey sticks)I found my stash of scraps..some large and some small. I decided to use the cutting mat and rotary tool that I have only until tonight (girls night out crafting night) I have to give back hubby's aunties goodies back to her. I thought I'd use the cutting tools to cut myself some squares that I know using those tools would make them a lot straighter and even then using my rusty ol' sissors. LOL I made this small couch quilt (only the top right now..still needs a middle and back.)I love it. I used a lot of red as my livingroom will be a dark mustard in the spring and I know that the red is a good companion to mustard. Take a peek.

O.k.....Nobody laugh...PROMISE.....PROMISE? Alright..I made my very first..yes first, BANANA BREAD today. (I thought you weren't going to laugh)LOL Alright...stop laughing now...any time. So I've never made banana bread before. WHATEVER!!!! I always had my best bud Wanda or My best Bud Rebecca make it for me. LOL It smells soooo yummy. I can't wait to cut into it. BUT..here's the other funny part, I don't want to cut into it until hubby sees it...yes..I know, he could see and sample it with one corner of it gone. BUT, it wouldn't be the same as showing him the whole anchillada. Hee hee. Here's a pic. Yes...I took a picture of my first banana bread. Alright...now get off the floor from laughing so hard and wipe the tears from your eyes...

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O.k so here's what i've done with one of the antique ironing boards. I was going to try and use it as a sofa table, but when I put it behind the sofa..it brought my couch way out in the floor..more then I wanted. So for now..I put it near the sliding doors until I can either find a new place for it, or decide that's where it will stay.LOL I primmed it up some with things I had in the room, but will be changing out the goodies I'm sure. LOL

Back when still living in Ontario...I purchased two antique ironing boards. I was with a couple of my friends when I purchased them and they were laughing as they didn't know why I was SOOOO excited about finding (not one...but TWO) of these wonderful treasures. Here are the pictures of them...I plan to use one as possibly a sofa table behind my couch and put some prims on it...Or paint it up and fold it to the Non using way and leaning it up against a wall in my livingroom...The other one I'll end up painting and putting in a craft fair that my sister and I are in for July. For all your primitive decor lovers....Here's what they look like. LOL

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LOL...these two candlesticks as I bought them at the flea market, just weren't calling my name as candlesticks. So instead I used them to make "Make do's" In the primitive world this is to use whatever you have around the house to create something unique. So the "Saltbox Sally" doll on the candlestick is the other "Make do" I did tonight. She is holding her favorite things...a painting she did herself...notice the signature she did on the bottom right corner of it, and a saltbox house that her daddy made her from some scrap wood he had in the barn. LOL o.k...o.k....maybe I need to just go to bed and stop playing with dollies. LOL Here she is.

So, here is Sally....her ma and pa even call her "Saltbox Sally" as she just LOVES saltbox houses.




Close up of her painted picture she did on an ol' window she found in her barn. LOL


Close up of her face...She's a bit grungy from rootin' around in the barn for her window to paint on. LOL

This is the "Make do" I made tonight. From what I understand about them..it's using whatever you have around the house and making up something. I made a primitive sheep on a candlestick holder that is wearing a "quilt blanket" on his back (really glued pieces to look like a quilted star..LOL) But he's got a few pip berries and a rusty bell attached to the bottom of where I tied him on the stick and I've primmed up the candlestick holder with some soft black paint to give it a more "primitive" look. I guess I was bored or something...LOL I think he turned out pretty cute for the first "Make do" I've ever made. Hee hee

Here he is on my coffee table with a sunburst grapevine wreath under it to show one way you could display it.


Here he's in my jelly cupboard for another display...you can see from both pictures that his "quilted blanket" can be worn to show two different fabric stars.

I was going through my pictures of projects of the past and found three projects that I need to get back into...Painted Quilts and pillows. The painted quilt was one that I had done while in N.B. and when I got to Ontario ended up selling it to a lady that owned a country/primitive shop in Angus, Ontario that put it in her own house...I sold it for $50.00 and sometimes...I wish I had kept it. LOL Just because it was my first painted quilt. The pillows I had on my sisters site and they never sold, I ended up putting them up as "prizes" for something on guessing my middle name and one other question. The people that received them loved them...but it would have been nice to make money from doing those projects. I guess i had them too overly priced or something. LOL Anyway...I wanted to show you all them.




This quilt was painted using Cheryl's free images on her site. This was also the quilt that I had put in for the contest she had run using her graphics. Didn't win...but it was still fun.LOL





This painted pillow was made using a Maxine Thomas pattern and I thought it turned out pretty cute. Each of the dolls are holding a different saying on their pillows, "Faith" "Love" "Hope" and "family".



This Pillow was fun to do as well...it is a challenge to paint on the canvas (Muslin type material) but worth it in the end.