Saturday, June 8, 2013

Of Paper Stars and Plastic Eagles



 Hey folks. Has the rain finally passed for you? 
I'm finally able to look out and see the bright warm rays of sun glistening off  what looks to be a jungle. All these warm rain has gotten me completely out of time my mowing schedule but it has not hindered the grass growing one bit.

Are you good at making the best of rainy days?
Sometimes I am and sometimes I become quite antsy. 
When I become antsy there is no telling what kind of crazy project I'll come up with. 
I have had paper stars on my mind for quite sometime and finally thought 
I'd give this paper project a try.

First things first, I'm going to give you the link to the site that got my mind stuck on this project.
Go over to grey luster girl and check out her tutorial.

I started out by finding a star shaped cookie cuter. I traced it onto a cardboard box and cut them out.
My first thought was to paint all these stars and try to fake antique them the way that she did 
and then glue them together. I was then going to run them onto some twine.
Jack was not happy with me for wanting to paint over the Harley-Davidson emblems and my lack of real good gluing ability took me down another path.
I had some brown glitter fingernail polish I painted over the stars and strung them and hung them.
That was first rainy day. 
Well it just looked weird and I thought I need a bigger star. 
You would think I had some bigger cardboard I cut cut on but no.
 So, second day I brought a few pieces home from work and we got to drawing and cutting.
Yes, I am artistically challenged. 
Stars are hard to draw..but needless to say draw it, cut it out, and score it.
Score it along the point all the way across. 
It will end up so that you can  pinch it up and bend it down.
Now we needed to paint it. You now I'm not going to buy anything for this.
So, down to the basement to see what we can use.
No..not recommended for paper...
Jack had to do the painting.
After painting it black, the brown didn't show up.
So..back down the stairs..maybe grey spray paint could work this mess out.
Maybe brown on top of that....is this the way your projects go?
Oh no..I didn't like it.
So, what do you do when you don't like it?
Add flowers..or something close to flowers.
dadah...
Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you about my plastic eagle.
That story really started a few months ago when I was looking around down at Larry's Variety
 when I saw some iron eagles hanging sorta' high on the wall the lower one was really close to looking like the one that hung above my Grandma Hylton's door for ever. 
I have told myself I would eventually find me one.
 but you know cheap me....I couldn't go the money on that one and it was exactly the same 
so when I was ready to pay Larry he asked," is that all?"
 I said, "Well what about that $4 eagle hanging on the wall." 
and he went and got the ladder and got it down for me.
When he brought it to the register it was plastic...eek...
but I didn't have the heart to tell him I wouldn't take it after he'd went to so much trouble to get it down. 
No, in good light I really didn't like it.
So of course you know what I did!??
I put some gold fingernail polish to it and added some flower something or other.
 dadah...

The sun is still shining but the old man(husband) has come in from work and is informed me 
my sun is not suppose to last for long.
I'd better get out there and mow that wet grass. 
As always thanks for the visit.
BE BLESSED!
p.s. Ann, please give me the heads up if you're going to visit I'll try to have 
something with a kick to drink. It will help you enjoy my new decor so much better. 











Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Tony Lama~Zulily's Daily Deal

After I shared my Justin Western Boots I purchased through Zulily's,
I had several folks mentioning they were in want for a good boot deal.
Well, Zulily has hooked up with Tony Lama Boots.
I thought I'd share this. It may be the deal someone has been waiting for.
Cute. Right?
Very nice!

There are several other styles some for guys and some not quite so ornamental.
Here's the link

Monday, June 3, 2013

Monday Music Moves Me~~Cover Tunes

     Well let's get the tunes started with another
Monday Music Moves Me
Today's theme is "Cover Tunes"
I'm going to save the words and get to the tunes...

Let's have a little Grace covering White Rabbit(Jefferson Airplane)


Grace Potter covering Higher Ground(Heart)



Let's slow it down with a Government Mule covering I'd Rather Go Blind(Etta James)



Gov't Mule covering Superstition(Stevie Wonder)



I'm going to finish this up with Allison Krauss 



Thanks for the visit.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Always Remember


CONFLICT
SPAN
CASUALTIES
American Revolutionary War
1775-1783
25,000
Northwest Indian War
1785-1795
~1,056
Quasi-War
1798-1800
514
War of 1812
1812-1815
~20,000
1st Seminole War
1817-1818
36
Black Hawk War
1832
305
2nd Seminole War
1835-1842
1,535
Mexican-American War
1846-1848
13,283
3rd Seminole War
1855-1858
26
Civil War
1861-1865
~625,000
Indian Wars
1865-1898
919
Great Sioux War
1875-1877
314
Spanish-America War
1898
2,446
Philippine-American War
1898-1913
4,196
Boxer Rebellion
1900-1901
131
Mexican Revolution
1914-1919
~35
Haiti Occupation
1915-1934
148
World War 1
1917-1918
116,516
North Russia Campaign
1918-1920
424
American Exped. Force Siberia
1918-1920
328
Nicaragua Occupation
1927-1933
48
World War 2
1941-1945
405,399
Korean War
1950-1953
36,516
Vietnam War
1955-1975
58,209
El Salvador Civil War
1980-1992
37
Beirut
1982-1984
266
Grenada
1983
19
Panama
1989
40
Persian Gulf War
1990-1991
258
Operation Provide Comfort
1991-1996
19
Somalia Intervention
1992-1995
43
Bosnia
1995-2004
12
NATO Air Campaign Yugoslavia
1999
20
Afghanistan (ongoing)
2001-
2,145(11/2012)
Iraq
2003-2011
4,486

Friday, May 24, 2013

Rural Route Road



You know you've reached the real country when you pass a string of whopped up mailboxes 
at the end of a dirt road.
Waiting for the mailman to bring that special something gives you that kind of 
giddy high that a child gets the closer Christmas gets.
Well, that's been me the last two weeks.
I have very much become the on-line shopper.
 Mostly I'm a window shopper; I laugh and tell husband "oh...I'm just being a looky-loo 
and most of the time that is the case. Don't get me wrong there's times when
a girl must purchase. 
Strike while the iron's hot!
My time was when Zulily.com teamed up with the Justin Boot Company.
I have been jonesing for a pair of western boots for some time now.
 I hadn't had western boots since I  was a girl. 

I am so pleased with this purchase. The boots where even better than described. 
Best of all, Justin Boots are made in the USA.
How wonderful they also attached a guitar pick!
How did they know that one of my goals for the year was to get my old guitar out
and  really learn to play something?!
Maybe I'll sit on the porch in my boots and do some picking.
Why don't we listen to a little George Strait to get us in the mood.





Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend.
I wishing everyone a nice sit down on the porch.