Different shades of Grey

It is so hard for me to come up with art for our house. So many high ceilings, and so much space to put pictures, that I'm overwhelmed and just don't put anything up. Months ago I saw an episode of one of HGTV's shows. There was a designer who just put oil paint on a spoon and smashed it on canvas. He created the coolest art ever. I loved those pictures. I went to Michaels, bought some canvas and paint, took a spoon and spooned painted 6 different colored flowers on it while watching Sex and the City. Not sure if I got distracted or what, but in the end I put them in a drawer deep down, so nobody would find those.

I forgot about them until it was time to declutter drawers. 

What do you think? Better hidden in the drawer, right!

 

The texture of the pictures is really cool, you can see it in the below picture.

Since I'm a little obsessed with grey right now, I mixed 6 different shades and just like that changed the colors of all the pictures.

                         

                    

Now they are hanging in our living room. I like them but still think something is missing. Not sure what yet. AND yes, the book case needs some serious color change!!

Jewelry

I was invited to my friend Elisabeth' bridal shower this past Saturday. Besides some gifts from BBB I wanted to give her something personal/special. I was looking around blogland to find an idea and stumbled across this website. Elisabeth is the best cook ever. She is making dinner plans for the week and is cooking a lot of amazing meals.. Since she is a passionate cook, I wanted to give her something related to that. When I saw the little whisk earrings I knew these would be the perfect gift.

Check out the full tutorial here

You will need the following tools:

Beading Wire (I used 20 gauge)

Hook Wire Earring Findings 

Needle Nose Jewelry Pliers

Small Dowel (I used a paint brush)

Wrap the wire around your dowel (7-10 times) make sure they are really tight and close together. Try to stick the ends inside.

Take it off the dowel and put it aside.

Now use two fingers and wrap the wire around them about 5 times, cut it in the same position as you started

push the ends together with your pliers and stick it through your round wire

Attach the earing finding to one of the loops of your whisk

Repeat

Put in a nice jewelry box

Since it was so easy, I decided on doing a necklace as well.

I wrapped the wire around a little bigger round brush, wrapped the whisk part 8 times around my finger and attached a pendant pail to one of the loops of the whisk.

Attach a necklace to the pendant

And here you have it.. The full assortment of the Whisk Collection.

A nice personal gift, now I just hope she likes them..

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Moving along

        

      Spending some quality time with our boys...

              

               

 Playing with Tweety, which doesn't have any filling in it anymore

not scared anymore walking down the stairs

trying to annoy his big brother by biting him in the leg

getting smacked when it's too much

 Playing with Tweety, which doesn't have any filling in it anymore

Then we didnt have too much of a good time. Toby got sick and pooped in his crate (4 times this week) and needed to go to the bathroom every hour for the last two nights.

and had to get a bath

get toweled off

before walking in the rain

and digging in the dirt

finding plastic bottles on the road - best toys ever!

Relaxing

More training

"Lay down"

      

            "Shake"

             

  "STAY"

and "COME"

 

 and lots of treats on the way

                 More playing

         

   Getting bigger

Steele loves to get petted

Brushing - or trying to eat the brush

more relaxing on the front porch

Our first visit to the bar

Steele hugging me

 

Please pet me

Playing together (looks pretty scary, doesn't it?)

Don't even think about breaking in! :)

  

Playing with Daddy

AND maybe we could make some money with modeling?

Until next time...