I've made a junk collector of him!!

Rusty and his friends found this old cooler base on some hunting land, Rusty brought the "rusty old thing" home, and primer, paint, a steady hand and a few hours later, the result is great! He plans to " set in" a cooler and cover the top with a chopping block for the cabin.
He is so creative, and able, I am proud of him for "junking" and doing something so creative with it!

These birds are now on Etsy! MANY MANY more to come!

Do you see a color theme here?

Birdy embellishment in progress-

Successful thrifting! It is chilly here in Wisconsin this morning, and I am feeling it! Fall that is- One more week and school will begin here, so hard to believe! But, Rusty is gone again, and the sewing machine will be working OT. Also, I plan to get some much needed painting done in this house. We have lived here for 7 years already, and much of the work I did pre-children, needs to be re-done. My mom thinks I am crazy, but I promise I will not paint the kitchen or my bedroom. I have already done that a few times.

Oh yeah, any ideas for Rusty's 40th coming soon? I have a couple, but I am not entirely sold on any of them.

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I have been working on the birds again-many finished, many in the works, so I will just continue to keep up with them for awhile. Rusty is in Indiana again, so my machine in on the kitchen table...good place for it I say!

Hot week here in Wisconsin finally, but I am working much of it. I really wanted to get repainting some of my rooms, but I am worried with the humidity I better hold off, definitely do not want to stand around watching paint dry in the summer!

WIPs

These are the birds I have been working (slacking) on. I have many finished they just need to be embellished.

I have beaded hangers on them, and in hindsight, I wish I would have beaded them together to hang on the soffit in my kitchen. Maybe next time. I have also been decorating the house for Christmas some, but over the weekend, relaxed a bunch with the girls.

Jurnee and I watched Enchanted, and she loved it! So that was fun.

Thanks for the ideas for the 22 gifts for Jurnee's class. I think I will do the photo one from Angie. Jurnee and I will work on it this weekend. I will be in the class on Thursday and will have time to take the photo.

Creativity is Flowing again!

These are some birds in progress- I will have many tweeting results to show later this week!
The string quilt is coming along nicely too, I will be ready to put it together by the weekend!

It has been snowing, and the girls are so excited! Especially Sophia! She wants to be out in it all of the time! As I recall, she was also like this last year! Hopefully it won't be too cold to play outside! But of course, the snow did melt, and will come and go again a few times probably before we are inundated with the "pretty" white stuff!