other lives...

my old 1999 jeep has been in the shop for a couple of days.......new compressor for the air conditioner needed........so yesterday, i went to town, rearranging my sun/living/never know what to call this/room......and of course big kit-ten and little miss daisy had to join in the fun!
i removed the painted white coffee table and stuck it in the attic (i call that the "prop room") and replaced it with this old medical cart from the back porch.......rubbed the rust off with "mr. clean's magic eraser" (do you know about this amazing product? you must check it out!)......and i am lovin the new look.
all old pieces, that lived other lives......pulled together.

the top was just a little too rusty for me, so i topped it with an old wooden tool caddy that has the coolest tin bottom.

love them curvy legs.

added some chunky white candles......

old bottles sitting on a piece of poor man's silver......

and a hand forged copper bird feeder with a broken chain.

pulled the old fan from the prop room too.

gratuitous kitty toes...couldn't help sharing those, just because.

joining

debra at common ground blog

for vintage inspiration friday

have a wonderful weekend friends!!

erin

xxoo

it's the little things...

dainty sweet peas plucked from my summer garden.


these perennials have bloomed twice this season, despite the opressive heat..... and yes, oh my, their fragrant soft pink blooms are so beautiful to behold...but......

it is their delicate, curly little tendrils...ever reaching..... reaching.

that really fascinate me.

and one of the many reasons i love nature so very much.

joining kim klassen for texture tuesday

and exploring the little things.

the light...

what a glorious weekend! filled with happiness and light. the beautiful light of friendship and creativity and affirmation.

i woke up friday morning to a surprise deluge of comments and new followers... so FUN....it turns out i was featured on Miss Mustard Seed's Blog, seen here, and this sent new friends and new affirmation my way!! welcome! and thank you so very much! i worked hard on my newish dining room and how wonderful to be able to share it! when i blogged about my dining room, i hadn't yet figured out what to do with the 1970's brass light fixture (which i had painted black years ago), so i painted one coat of white craft paint to it and kinda let it go...until the inspiration came to me.
using what i had, i added my hand made doily bowls, left over from another project, to some of the lights......up side down.....really just balancing there on the bulbs! i thought about creating new doily lampshades, yunno with real lampshade frames and all.... but settled on this for now.....it may change....most likely will.... things around here usually do! right, hubby? he loves me anyway, for all of the changes.

and then i added translucent white ghost leaves (from Anthro's clearance table) and pieces from a deconstructed windchime (long ago tangled by stong winds)..... oh look, you can see i need to do another coat of white paint....but that will probably not happen....... and it is fine with me...yes, it is.....it's good for my never ending "recovering perfectionist" work, to just leave it. ha

the dangly bits and bobs create such beautiful light.

you can read about my handmade doily bowls here.

the light is sooooo pretty coming through the window into the delicate lace of those bowls.

it's all about the light.

the beautiful light.

i must say...... just how overwhelmed i feel right now (in a very good way)....with all of this luminous light around me...... to have so many people respond so positively to my dining room, but most especially to my paintings!! so many have expressed interest in purchasing my paintings, especially the "horsey" painting. my paintings are a labor of love for me and i want to share them! please know that yes, my paintings are for sale (to the right home, of course) and you can e-mail with any inquiries........i'll do my very best to respond (with my lack of typing and computer skills.....hey, i am artsy-fartsy)......i promise, i will get back to you :0)

we received some much needed rain today and there's more in this weeks forecast......aahhhhh, time in the studio painting for me!!! in search of that light.

my bloggy friend, Lucinda of Cobalt Violet often ends her posts with

"blessings and light"

isn't that beautiful? i love that......

~blessings and light~

erin

impressions...

well, i am just overwhelmed, by all of the yummy blog love, sent my way, for my "newish dining room" post! thank you all so very much! and just to show you, that while i do LOVE an all neutral palette, like i used in my dining room.....well, i also LOVE me some COLOR! i do....i do!

i was so totally, over the moon, inspired when i saw my bloggy friend

Georgianna's dreamy images,

from her trip to Giverny, France (the home and gardens of Claude Monet). i have never been to Monet's gardens...it's on my very long bucket list of places to see....Georgianna was gracious enough to let me use her scrumptious photos as inspiration for my latest paintings. thank you, G so very much! please check out her fabulous blog...you will be inspired too.

please enjoy some color filled snippets from my studio...

as the heat wave here in Tennessee continues (on and on and on), i am very grateful to be able to do my gardening work in the early morning....

and then spend afternoons in my studio....

fans a blowin.

creating.

playing.

musing.

listening.

dreaming.

artying.

how about you?