3rd Memory Verse, and Spruce uPs

Greetings and Holykisses,

This morning I'm finally able to get on blogger.
I tried loading pictures yesterday but had all kinds of problems. It was probably the crazy weather!

This is my 3rd memory verse for the scripture challenge.
I wanted to find a TRUST verse because I know there are times I still walk in fear when it comes to the future. Sometimes the what if's try to get the better of me. So this verse is being written in my heart. "In God I have put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?" From now on, when what if's come... I'll say this verse. Especially when people pleasing fears begin to take root: I will not be afraid, because what can man do to me!??
This past week, I started looking around our living space, and decided it was time for change.
Do you ever do that? Feel the need to rearrange furniture, or take things off the wall, and just put up something different? I think it was a bad case of spring fever.

So I started by changing out the poinsettias that were in thee olde crock in this picture.
I mean; no wonder I had spring fever, I was still hanging onto my Christmas flowers with white knuckles. I loved their vibrant red color, and I think that's why they stayed so long. With Valentines day fast approaching, I knew *pink roses* had to be an improvement.

After that, .... robins egg blue...... washed over me.
I needed paint like an addict needing maple -iced, cream filled, long johns.
Lowe's here I come.
I think I could stand in the paint chip isle for hours. Color, ....and oh so many possibilities! But the longer I look at the many possibilities, .... then comes the thought of "what if it's not an improvement but rather... disaster?" I have created a few disasters before...but... if you don't try; ... then nothing: ever CHANGES! It was time to just go for the gusto. If it turned out a flop, I knew I'd just keep painting until something pretty happened. ;)

A friend of mine, recently sent me to a website with rustic lodge furniture that was painted a distressed turquoise color. I don't want to write the website here, because it's completely ridiculously overpriced, but at the same time I liked the look alot. So, God creating me to be a woman who enjoys getting her hands very dirty, and robins egg blue on- the- brain:
This began to happen. I forgot to take a before shot of this old table but, it was finished with an outdated, very dark stain from the early 70's. To me; the cracked up legs only adds to their charm.
After getting a wash of robins egg blue paint, .... it was then rubbed with oak gel stain. The stain made it darker, and really changed the paint color.... - I liked it!
It turned out so much like the pricey pieces on the fancy website I told you about; I could really hardly believe it.

But that wasn't all.
I'd stared for weeks, at the unfinished woodbox that Myguy had thrown together just before our last snowstorm. There it sat day after day, in the living room with kindling in it... - just bare plywood.
On a sunny afternoon last week, it came back outdoors. The kindling got dumped out, and it too got a spruce up. It needed something.... to tie the room more together? So I bought three of those little carved, decorative pieces. The two small daisies, I attached to the ends and the larger piece to the front. You just add some wood glue, and little nails... and voila!
Nothing fancy, but .... I think our firewood looks happier.
Then, to keep the color going, this table was "egged" as well.
And so were a couple bird houses that I had laying around.
Our mantle and fireplace bricks needed something too.
The mantle boards used to be a willow green. Now; they're called "sugar cane."
And the bricks were painted white, but are now a "mulch" color.
A little paint can sure go a long ways.

I swapped curtains, and tried to mostly use things we already had to freshen things up.
But I did want to go to Hobby Lobby to look at fabric to reupholster an old rocking chair.
So I printed my 40% off Hobby Lobby coupon , and to my delight....
they had the picture back in stock I'd had my eye on and it was marked half off!
I just love all the names of God so much. And on this particular day; I was so happy to find something so very special for our living room. I brought the picture home, and the sales lady let me use my 40% coupon on the fabric I found for the chair, even though the fabric was already 30% off. She allowed me an extra 10 % with my coupon! What a blessing!

That concludes my Sprucing uP!
For now anyways.

I do find it amusing that....
I realized my newest book that came in the mail also has blue eggs. lol
My dear friend Char and I are doing this book together and little did I realize that the whole time I had robins egg blue on the brain... my newest bible study has the same theme. I'm eggcited! Okay; so that may have been a little lame. lol I couldn't help myself. heehee
I was also eggcited this week, to find snail mail from my Artsy friend: Sherry!
Thankyou soooo much Sherry! I sooo loved the *message* and I'm taking it to he{art}!!!!!!!!!!


So here is my next project to tackle. (Sorry the picture is so tiny. I loaded it when I was having trouble with Blogger yesterday.)
Anyway, the seat has a printed fabric on it with "jam jars." It hasn't ever matched anything or even mis-matched very well. So out with the old and in with the new. The new fabric is a solid mulch brown that looks like tooled leather. I almost went with a leopard print for fun, but it was alot more expensive. The price difference between the two, almost paid for the names of God picture!

Last but not least.... meet cute lil Sylvester.
I've been babysitting him for almost a week now. He's a long haired chihuahua.
We now call him, Sylvester P. Leaksalot. Because if you talk to him, ...he pees. If you touch him, ... yep; .....he pees. He just gets so excited; .... he leaksalot! We put his little pen just a few feet from the door. I open the exterior door first, and then his pen door. Sometimes when you open it, he'll leave a trail across the tile, ....all the way out.* Poor lil guy... Have any of you had a furbaby with that kind of problem? His owner is hoping he outgrows it because he's still a puppy. But I ... don't know????

It's almost time for my hair appt.
Yall have a wonderful day!!!
Holykisses xoxo
L