Wooden Shoe - Redo

The inspiration for my wooden shoe redo came from Jeanie on her blog, The Marmelade Gypsy
One of Jeanie's photos featured a door with a wooden shoe which appealed to my 'Dutch' side. And then low and behold didn't I spy a small wooden shoe on our first trip to the flea market this season. It is just the right size for a the small shutter I've had laying around for quite sometime.

Before

 No, It's not a computer glitch.
I completely forgot to take a before photo, tsk.

 

After

 

 

I'm pretty sure it's not done.

 but I caught the house wrens in the act of removing pieces of my spring wreath for nesting; so that had to come down.

I'm not satisfied with the flowers just stuffed in the shoe and Sophie's clip (aka feet) need camouflaged.
You may remember Sophie from this post:
Sadie Visits Blue Monday

I'm pretty sure she won't be moving for awhile.

Question: The wooden shoe has a small hole on only one side). I noticed the one on Jeanie's post does too. Is there a purpose for this?

 



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Garden Sign

This was a thrifty find in June 2011

I left it as was at the time.

The weather had taken its toll

All faded and part of the bottom is gone.

I first sprayed with flat black.

Since I haven't done something like this in a long time 

most of my supplies are gone.

So I got creative and used metallic magic markers
and pastel pencils.

Then sprayed with semi-gloss urethane.

Not sure how it will hold up

but I'm pleased with the result.

 

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A Scrolled Bench Morphs

Joining in with Metamorphisis Monday. Let's have a seat out here and let me tell you about that plant stand you see on the end of the porch.


Last May I was blessed to discover this wonderful world of Blogs. Prior to that my idea of a blog was a tell all; pour out your thoughts; generally depressing concept. How very mistaken I was! That discovery set off a long dormant love for thrifting. And the rest is history.

This beautful white bench, a beauty in its own right was one of my revival finds at GW.

I had breezed in for a quick go around, found several nifty little items and was on my way to the check out when I made that glance to the right that so many of you will relate to, and there it was.
Then I got home and found this tag hanging from a leg. It's a little blurry and reads $55.00. Must have been left over from someone else's sale minus the cushions. A spray can of paint and it morphed into this lovely plant bench. Don't you love how the 'S' moldings match the scrolls on our porch supports and the black shutters? So that's one of the many morphs at Muldoon. Thanks for stopping by. I'm so glad you did. With the cooler temps it was nice to enjoy this brief respite with you.


There's lots more to see at Between Naps on the Porch.

Something I've meant to do for a very long time

I have always liked fabric covered bulletin boards with the ribbon to tuck notes, photos and whatever behind. And I always wanted it beside my desk. So....good in everything bad. My office work was all caught up by noon and Monday became a half day. Of course what better to do with my unexpected free time than to stop by a few blogs. While visiting "Daisy Cottage" and finding that Kim will be away for a few weeks I wanted to make a note on my calendar. And suddenly an inspiration---time to get the fabric and essentials to finally create my board.

It only took a few minutes to find exactly what was needed. A scrap of green/ivory toille

and a rectangle of styrofoam. Grabbed the tin full of my mom's quilting pins plus the scrapping drawer of ribbons and thirty minutes or less later----voila!

And since creativity seems to have hit, next, out comes the cardstock and other scrapping goodies to make pretty snippets for notes rather than plain old paper.