Bearing Gifts.

I just got my parcel in the mail from this patch swap.  I am so lucky!  It contained a Gorgeous embroidered Pink Squirrel from Cathy and a very intricate blue bird from Kristin.  Last but certainly not least, Faun included some iron on patches featuring her artwork.  All together it made for quite an impressive package. 
Like a dorkus, I forgot to write my name on the fancy envelopes I put my patches into… so one recipient has had to do a little ‘Nancy Drewing’ to find me.  Oops!  I’m glad to know that they will be going to homes that appreciate them.  And now I wish I’d done a better job…

I spent the evening on Thursday and the afternoon today painting my living room wall.  It’s been interesting since we are going from a colour called "Red Red Wine" to a colour called "Blue Brooke".  I’ve got such plans, new artwork to hang above the couch and I want to paint the Mantle Chinese red with an antique finish.  I know what your thinking Dad, if I don’t like the bright colour on the mantle, I’ll just paint it again!  That’s the nice thing about paint.  The blue paint I bought from a liquidation store and it only cost me 10$ but by golly it only covered like 10 dollar paint, Suz saved the day by lending be a bucket of paint that was a light brown to use as primer.  If it weren’t for that, I’d still be there painting the blue and in desperate need of another can of blue paint.  I don’t think I’ll buy it again, depending on the project.  If you click on the photo it will take you into my flickr photos where i’ve posted a few other shots in my photo stream.  Of Course, of the three shots the blue looks different in each one, so use your imagination- you get the gist.

I’ll post more photos when I’ve completed my project- Wish me luck!

~jen