From Blah to Bling!

What happens when you see a leather couch you love at a garage sale for only $50.00, but the colour is drab and boring?  Well, when you're married to the creative mind of Sassy Feet, you think "Wait a minute!  We could paint it any colour we want!"  Ingredients - 1.) Leather couch,  2.)  One quart Lumiere copper,  3.) Small jars of Lumiere Metallic Rust, Crimson and Halo Gold, 4.) Medium sized rollers for the base coat of copper, 5.) Foreman Grill Sponges to add the three accent colors,  6.)  Three happy painters - Margot, Destiny and I,  and 7.)  Three hours from blah to bling! Checkout the full story on the Sassy Feet Blog.

Spring Cleaning?!

You can imagine that 2 artistic types would always find more exciting things to do than clean the house - and we do. But it does reach that point when something must be done! So, we have bitten the bullet and every Monday (mutual day off) for two months we are tackling an area of the house and doing the massive Spring cleaning thing. So far, upstairs we've done the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and hall. Next week is the great room, a big chuck of which I use as part of my studio. We're still not crazy about cleaning - but we are very happy with the results. Next month - the downstairs! If we could just get Hazel to come over and help!

Two Things I Love...

...in our wonderful house of many colours. Above, the walls in Margot's office. She stenciled the words "Fame, Success, Abundance" all around the top edge of all four walls. The words are done in gold on "cherry cobbler" walls.


And the floor in our sun-room studio. 12" squares of linoleum in orange, coral, lavender and red. It looks like a giant patchwork quilt and brightens up even the foggiest Morro Bay day.

Not your ordinary bathroom!

During the last week Corey Amaro over at Tongue and Cheek has been telling of her adventures painting her bathroom in various shades of grey. The results are very beautiful and very French. Now for something completely different! This is my Mexicolor bathroom, with skulls, shrines, calaveras and lots of green and fuchsia. This is how I wake up every morning - explains a lot doesn't it? LOL