::Would Ya Believe....Yet Another Wee Side Table::

This is Lori....named after the gal who asked me to custom paint her.

The table, not the gal.

I actually previewed her HERE last week, but wanted to give her a feature 'cause she's awesome.

My friend was buying Evangeline, and spotted this little number in my garage already wearing her first coat of green DIY chalkpaint.

She asked if I could do a similar paint treatment as Evangeline using MMS Kitchen Scale and a glaze.

So I did.

Evangeline had a white base, but the green under Miss Lori here looked fabulous.

I still have 2 more wee side tables awaiting their debut in the garage...hope to move on to a couple desks, several chairs, some coffee tables, and the waterfall sideboard.

Besides Evangeline and Lori, you can check out Bethany and Lyssa too.  They like company :)
They all room together at The Serendipity House waiting for their adoptive parents to pick them up.

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::A Birthday::

My baby is 12 today.

Sam got mothered by his three big sisters, and played with (an on) by 2 older brothers.  He was always a trooper.

I loves him.

So glad you were given to me Sambo.

Happy on-the-verge-of teendom baby boy!  You're simply not allowed to grow any bigger.

Sharing my boy at A Favorite Thing.

::Simple Things::

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Onward.

Oklahoma.  What is there to say?  My heart hurts over the suffering and devastation there.  Even posting today seems trivial and stupid in the face of such tragedy.  I'm keeping everyone there close to my heart and willing strength and endurance to all those serving and helping and peace to all those who have suffered such devastating loss.

Here's what I did yesterday, and what I'll finish doing today as it helps my heart to work at simple things when I'm feeling heavy and helpless:

(Patchouli for a client and Almond Cream with buttermilk)

I mixed up my master batch of oils for the summer installment of soap babies.
A long while ago I did a tutorial on making soap from scratch-a-rama.
But if you just wanna buy some as soon as it's ready, visit the real soap co. I'm taking pre-orders that will ship by June 10th.

In other news, my hubster and his team got home last night after a 6 day Hurricane Sandy relief trip to NYC.

My daughter Maddie (and her hubster) went with the team.  She and her Daddy took these pics of each other in Harry Potter/Dumbledore fashion across the subway tracks..... as she was headed back to Staten Island and Hubby was heading to Brooklyn to hang out with Peter Rollins and gang.

I love that my Hubby has such a big heart and wants to help people....He'll be doing another helping trip to southern Ohio next month, and possibly travelling to Serbia in the fall.  With the tornadoes down south, I expect he'll head there too eventually.

Back to painting tomorrow.  I picked up some new MMS milk paint samples (Luckett's Green and Shutter Gray) as well as a quart of Ce Ce Caldwell's Kentucky Mint and a sample of The American Paint Co. in Home Plate.  Simple things like happy paint colors and painting old stuff help cheer me, help keep me going when I have a hard time not being paralyzed by fear of storms (some heading our way later), and the pain of others affected by things out of their control.

I hope you all can find something to do that cheers you today, done in honor of those dealing with the tragedy firsthand.

peace.

::The Real McCoy::

I've mostly avoided thrift shops lately.

Firstly, I don't have a lot of extra greenbacks (having spent them on $35+ quarts of chalk paint)....

Secondly, I really haven't found much that tickles my fancy, lately.

And thirdly, I don't have space in my temporary quarters to either display or store any more knick-knack-paddy-wacks.

Let me just stick my big ole BUT in here....

BUT.....

Lookie see what I found on the bottom shelf, way in the back behind a brassy watering can, when I found myself with some time on my hands last Friday:

I felt like I was robbing a bank.

'Round these parts, McCoy pottery like this goes for upwards of $40 in the 'tiques shops.

But my find has some cracks.

As do I.  So this pretty fits right in.

And the lilacs I picked fit right in too....

I also found this wee little guy, and though it has no pedigree, I find him perfection itself.

I used all this yummi-ness to practice aperture with my new-ish lens.

And of course played around in Picasa and Picmonkey.

How 'bout you?  Found any treasures buried in the plastic tupperware at your local thrift lately?

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