tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625312204938049712024-03-14T02:14:11.949-07:00 Jamie LeighSewing ~ Painting ~ Baking ~ Decorating ~ LearningJamie Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12548761451114290636noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062531220493804971.post-61527316447458045542017-06-21T11:34:00.000-07:002017-06-21T11:34:00.429-07:00Bathroom Upgrade<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Happy Summer!!!!!</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope all is well with each of you and that life is treating you well! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been a while so lets get started!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I thought I would start by sharing my bathroom upgrade with you!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have been in our home going on 15 years now and we have raised 3 kids sharing 1 bathroom. It has been many colors, light yellow, a brighter yellow, & a light tan... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our oldest recently moved out and I finally had some free time to make some improvements to their bathroom!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a board attached to the wall for the kids towels...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to put wainscoting on the lower portion of the walls!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We used liquid nails to attach the board, wow great stuff! If you are using it for paneling, I highly suggest you get the one specifically made for paneling, you will spend less time trying to hold it still so it can dry. I learned the lesson so you won't have to :) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the final product!!! I am so happy with how it came out!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I feel so relaxed in this bathroom!!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It turned out just how I wanted it!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wall color is called Silver Sage, I saw it at a friends home and fell in love with the color!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">1/4 cup granulated sugar</span><br style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;" /><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">1 1/8 cups whole milk, warmed</span><br style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;" /><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">3 teaspoons instant yeast</span><br style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;" /><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">2 large eggs</span><br style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;" /><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">1 1/4 sticks unsalted butter, melted</span><br style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;" /><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting</span><br style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;" /><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">1/2 teaspoon salt</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">For the doughnuts: Add the granulated sugar to the warm milk in a medium bowl, and then add the yeast. Allow it to sit until the yeast starts to bubble, 5 to 10 minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My clothes have NEVER been cleaner or smelled fresher,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I would pull out a sewing, or painting project begin working on it, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">then it would be time for lunch or dinner, and it all had to be put away. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My creativity was being put on the back burner, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">until the next time I had time to pull it all out again and work on it. </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until now.....</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided enough was enough and I turned my garage parking spot,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">into an artist studio!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nothing a little hosing off can't fix right?!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first projects were my <a href="http://jamieleighssewingpaintingbaking.blogspot.com/2014/03/rainbow-baby-blanket.html">sisters baby blanket</a> and an apron for a friend. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then my sewing machine stopped working properly, off to the repair shop...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, that didn't stop me, I pulled out the canvases and got to work.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are my first few pieces after I have removed the lid off my boiling pot of creativity!</span></div>
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Jamie Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12548761451114290636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062531220493804971.post-82341723771223984092014-03-08T05:36:00.001-08:002014-03-08T05:36:29.084-08:00Rainbow Baby Blanket<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">until now!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She told me a list of colors, and I had MANY months to think about the layout.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is what I came up with!!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is, by far, one of my top favorite blankets to date!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The colorful side of the blanket is made of cotton,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The joy that I get while I am making blankets is almost indescribable.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just thinking about the new little life that will be having it's first tummy time on it, napping on it, rolling over, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/2 C. ripe black olives ~ chopped</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3/4 C. Chive & Onion cream cheese</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"> I was recently inspired to mix it up a little bit with the colors of my aprons!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you <a href="http://www.mbwstudio.com/">Malena</a> for being such an inspiration...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As I have said before MOST of the fabrics that I use were given to me! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I bought most of the fabric, fabrics I was inspired to work with, mixed with a few fabrics that were given to me as well!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Here are a few completed ones...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday, I posted the <a href="http://jamieleighssewingpaintingbaking.blogspot.com/2013/10/empty-nest-redecorated.html"><span style="color: red;">1st</span></a> and <a href="http://jamieleighssewingpaintingbaking.blogspot.com/2013/10/empty-nest-redecorated-part-2.html"><span style="color: #cc0000;">2nd part</span></a> of the Empty Nest Redecorated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found it quite ironic that she decorated with birds, I don't think it was a coincidence!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They have lived here about 17 years, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and their 4th child moved to Hollywood a year ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...their nest was empty...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were over the hunter green her hubs had painted a few years back</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sooooo they asked me to help paint it ALL!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> it went from so dark and hunter green, to a bright sage green, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SUCH an improvement!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the rooms used to belonged to her daughter,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who has long since married and moved out and into a home of her own!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Very bright yellow, and holes patched everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She chose a color that she had already painted in the other bedroom and she she knew she already loved it!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WOW what a difference it made!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I completed this office last week for my cousin, it happens to be right next to the room I recently painted for her pictured <a href="http://jamieleighssewingpaintingbaking.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-new-coat-of-paint.html">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> who has the privilege of being able to work from home a lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The color reminded me of my childhood room, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">it was such a calming color,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was a pleasure to be able to turn it into a lovely space for them!!!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She had an idea in mind and I did my best to make her idea come to fruition!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a fun project to work on because I had help along the way, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she was just about as busy as I was and it REALLY made a BIG difference in the end product!!!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and put me in fantastic shape!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This past weekend I had the pleasure of painting my cousins childhood playhouse. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I don't have a before pic, but you can imagine it was a little closed in and HOT in the summertime, especially in Georgia! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love how it turned out!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and it has been freezing cold for the past few days, so the fact that I had arranged to paint at my cousins new home today was perfect!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I was growing up my cousins lived only 20 minutes away in a quaint neighborhood, it was practically my second home for years. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then through the years and different life circumstances they no longer had a family home in the quaint little neighborhood, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of my cousins has moved back in with her family of four :) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was quite a surreal feeling driving back into that neighborhood after 20 years to paint her older sons room.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is the room before, a beautiful green color, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but since this room was going to belong to a 4 year old sweet little boy that had a different color in his previous home, this just wasn't going to work!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I got busy, taping off the room, one of my favorite parts of a paint job...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">except when it comes to a popcorn ceiling...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> then she texted back and asked which one was the new color? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and it matches the bedspread better too!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AND cousins to play in!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>My Pap Pap had made a special, one of a kind, rocking chair for my second born, back in 2003.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>He was a very crafty man, </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>he flew planes in World War 2, and then ran his home like a tight ship! </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>He then drove a school bus, </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>and when he retired he built MANY things around his home for his loved ones. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>It is hard to believe it has been 10 years since I received it from him!!!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>and the original paint strokes made by my late Pap Pap...</b></span></div>
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<b style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I added some extra padding for comfort and them stapled some fabric that had once been a curtain to it. </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a beautiful weekend filled with wonderful visits with loved ones. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On both Friday and Saturday nights we were invited to visit new homes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first home was of a dear old friend that I had not seen in about 5 years!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has the most beautiful green eyes I have ever seen, which is why I chose a fabric in many variations of green. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hanging in the kitchen concealing her sons spider man apron from sight :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The second apron was for my cousin who has just moved into her first house!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her favorite color is blue and her dad was a chef so I know she cooks often!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I absolutely love to make aprons, just about as much as I like to make <a href="http://jamieleighsewingpaintingbaking.blogspot.com/2012/04/blankets.html">baby blankets</a>!!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today I made them into a Valentine for my lovely family of 5.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">THEN...I prepared it into two different pans.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am always wearing something silver,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> whether it be a ring, earrings or a necklace. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Earlier this summer my silver chain broke and I have yet to replace it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have missed it </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but these days silver cost a lot to repair of replace and it has just not happened...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Therefore I have been painting a lot with some silver paint that was given to me by a friend. I have never before used silver paint and I love how it has turned out, it shimmers when it catches the light just right and it compliments any color it is paired with!!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will be painting with a lot more silver and I will be replacing my chain soon, it's been too long.....</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is my most recent window</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, I paired two windows together, but they look just as good separate :)</span><br />
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