A Great Weekend is Here!

This is going to be a great weekend, because Brian has Monday OFF for the holiday.....he will be home for an extra day!!!  I'm so happy about that -- now there won't be a sad post on Sunday night! :-D
We are not going anywhere or anything like that (NO money! :-P), but I love being home so I don't mind at all.  Besides, I can work on some projects!  That's pretty much my favorite thing to do anyway!! :-D

Today, we went to Lowe's and I got my wall paint -- I got a sample of the living room paint, to paint over the stenciling I didn't pick, and I got a quart for my kitchen, to paint the NEW wall I just plastered!!  OH JOY!!! :-D  I'm still not sure how I managed to run out of both my wall paints at the same time.....??

SO......Here's what I've been doing so far.....

 Since I had the plaster out, yesterday I patched that hole in the ceiling I showed a while back in a post....when you can't see it, that means it looks great!! :-D

This got done yesterday, too......

I picked every cherry tomato I could find in my garden!!  There are some more green tomatoes up there, so they aren't finished yet!  This might be enough to make a batch of tomato juice all by itself.....I'll clean them up and weigh them tomorrow.  The yellow ones are Sun Gold tomatoes and they are delicious ~ they will be yummy to drink!

Good-bye, unchosen stencil.....

It took three coats of paint to cover that stencil up!  It won't take long to get the right one up in this space!!

I tried sanding one motif, to see how it would look......

YUP!!!  That will be perfect under the antiquing glaze! :-D
I'm going to be trying a couple of color combinations with this stencil, to see if it would look better.....thank you, Marlene, for the idea!  It's a GREAT one!!! :-D

Picking up a few food items (ok, ice cream!) today in Walmart, THIS caught my attention and got my heart beating faster......

Look at all that inspiration!!!!  I don't care about Glidden paint, I just love paint colors! LOL  It is so hard to walk by this without grabbing some!  Ok, I confess....I grabbed five!! :-D

Now, should I make a list for the weekend?  I'm feeling an urge to make one right here, but I rarely do the things on my blog lists so I don't want to look like a fool to anyone reading this.....I guess I'll make a WISH list for this weekend ~ these are things I might do (so don't hold me to it! :-D):

       1. finish stenciling

       2. make tomato juice

       3. paint the new kitchen wall

       4. paint the cabinet by the couch (remember that?)

       5. touch up the mustard paint in the living room

       6. work on my cabinet boards!!! (sanding, cutting, putting together?)

       7. if I'm very adventurous (brave)....make a wallpaper box?????

       8. OR, if I'm very motivated.....clean my craft room!.....

.....it might need it, don't you think??? :-P  LOL
Well, there it is - my Maybe List!  Let's re-check it on Monday night and see how well I've done, shall we!?!

One more thought before I post this ~~ this is the LAST day of August....can you believe that?  I sure cannot!!  This month absolutely flew by for me, did it for anyone else??  WOW!  It isn't Fall to me yet, because I'm in the south, and it's still in the upper 80s every day (I'm not complaining), but it will be here fast and I'm just trying to enjoy the last bits of summer before it's gone until next year!  I can handle this kind of summer weather (just not 100s and 75 degree dew points!), so I am enjoying it.  I'm holding off on making pumpkin bread and Swedish apple pie until the time is right.....you can't rush these things!! :-D

Another Fall treat that I love to make is Yankee farm bread -- it's a small brown bread that is cooked in a loaf pan and doesn't rise.  I love serving it with cheese, it's SO satisfying!  I can't wait to share that on here, but it may be 2-3 weeks away!! ^-^