Thanks for looking though Betty......that too is what I tried picking out in colour - sage green - looks more greeny on the walls than I had wanted. So hard to pick paint colours sometimes - the samples are so small that I find it hard to picture it on a wall.....
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Dawn .. one of the paint stores .. I think it may be a national store .. will give you a baby food jar size of paint to try on an area of your wall to see the actual colour .. I think it MAY be Benjamin Moore .. not too sure though ..
~M~
DawnLL,
I've been painting my house for about 3 years now....hard to fit in with working & gardening. I also am terrible with picking the colors. I went to a paint store & they sent a consultant/designer out to my home to choose the colors. The fee was $80, but I received 20% off all the paint & supplies. Every room I get done is awesome. I am really glad that I followed the advice & colors chosen by their expert. She even sat with my daughter and gave her color choices for her room that would go with the rest off the house. Worked out wonderfully. It was Walls Alive that I went with. My house was painted all white when we bought it. Now we have color and it looks fabulous and feels warmer. Main floor is almost complete. Basement is next.
Either that or if you have something of the color you want, Home Depot will do a computer match..comes out almost exactly..
Cross posted..omg that's a wonderful idea..money well spent I would say...
thanks for all your ideas folks....I will be painting my walls in the next month or so....I want to do it before gardening starts!
I HAVE to paint my bedroom .. and want a NEUTRAL colour .. so far .. I have been lurking around online llooking at the
'Virtual tours' of homes for sale here in TBay .. gosh .. some folks sure do have the 'Spirit of ADVENTURE' when it comes to colours .. I'm kind of a NEUTRAL typa gal because I tend to change the bedding (comforter) so often .. so .. I go from a rich Maroon and Gold for winter .. to lacey and off white for summer and sometimes go through a stage with pastel pink roses .. gonna take me a bit to try and figure out a colour ..
~M~
Neutral is always good and you can get such a variety of beautiful neutral hues......and you are right - it makes it much easier to change things up in a room as well.
Dawn Benjamin Moore has sample jars -enough you can put it on the wall and get a good idea of the color. I think some other paint companies may do that now also. ( I buy them for craft projects!)
Marilynne I dont go for neutrals - my bedroom is raspberry, my rescue room/den/computor/guest room is forest green and my living/TV room is wine!
Here is the photo of the green I ended up painting....I mean it was ok but it wasn't the look I had wanted....
I certainly like the sample jar idea....Love the colour of your room fancyvan!
This is a neutral colour we picked for the downstairs bathroom and I love this colour.
Betty - I love the floorcloths. Never felt up to trying something like that myself.
Fancy - did you do the stenciling in your room? Very pretty?
Dawn - I like your room, but I know what you mean about not what you intended. I went through that with DR a few years ago. I won't bore you with pics here, but the whole saga is documented at http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/656493/
I think I went through 2 cans of paint, each being tinted twice before I got what I wanted. Once we painted a long wall and considered leaving it even though it wasn't what we REALLY wanted.
gotta go have lunch. First of several rehearsals in 40 minutes
Ann
Yes Ann I did the stenciling - several of my rooms are stencilled.
Talk about picking colors - it took me years and 3 different paint jobs to finally settle on this wine shade and then it took 5=6 coats to cover properly!
Betty
I love your floor cloths! you have an amazing talent to be able to do these pieces of artwork!
I liked all the talk of color with the decorating because it's like having a gardening moment indoors.
I also tend to select the more neutral colors with warm woods and often think about putting a color on a wall or a room and never have the nerve to do it. I tend to take the chances in the garden instead.
Today we have had a snow squall, sun and now light snow fall. It is only -7 today so at least we are out of the -25's.
The nice thing is now we have light a lot longer so I know the cold will leave us soon.
Ann
Betty, your creativeness is amazing .. like Ann .. I would be sort of lost trying to acheive the results you have with making a Floorcloth .. I'm afraid I am guilty of 'NON STICK TO ITNESS' !! I'd get half done .. put it away with EVERY good intention of finishing .. and .. well .. it'd never be completed, and I have THE perfect place for one ..
All this talk of painting and colours etc has me in "A" mood .. not quite 'THE" mood .. but gettin there !!
On one of my 'lurks' through the homes for sale, I did a virtual tour of a home that seemed to be decorated in shades of, 'cocoa' ... darker in some rooms and then lightening out as it progressed to the bedrooms .. so .. the colour would be a 'tan colour' .. not beige or off white .. but just a bit darker .. but .. it looked so warm .. may have a boo for some swatches today.
Weather .. WELL .. we were even mentioned on the NATIONAL news last night .. glorious temps are abiding here .. and several folks (me included) have sunburns (facial) .. heading up into the double digits of plusitude again today !!
The ONLY downside is the quick melt .. pretty puddly out there, and icy in spots not touched by the sun.
HAPPY ST URHO'S DAY ^_^
~M~
Morning, please not talk of talent, if you can tape a box design then you can do it...yes, talk of colors brings the garden season just a little closer..
yesterday I walked the gardens and saw so much green hidden under a layer of leaves, so wanted to get out my rake but refrained...yes I did, great willpower..lol
However, there were two plastic Muskoka chairs in a corner of the front deck, took them out and onto the deck, have a water feature, cleaned it and put it on..lordy, water can't freeze if it's running can it? just the sound soothed my soul...
Much of the dead tree branches have been picked up and into a fire, so that is a start.. back deck all decorated, just waiting for the winter plastic to come off, but wise I am..although we are going to have temps tomorrow as high at +14 and much same till Friday, -8 and snow for weekend..let's hope some type of front comes in and blows it in another direction..not yours of course...
Received more seeds from DG friends, so last night with my garden journal I received in a swap on my knee, I filled the packets and went through all the seeds thinking of where they will be planted..
Early this morning letting Sailor out I noticed beside the back deck a few stragglers of hollyhocks, many flourets with seeds within..so in they came, sat and got all the seeds..do you think they'll have any value??? worth a try I guess...
Do hope you will enjoy your day..let's hope it's a sunshine day in your neck of the woods..
HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY EVERYONE ^-^
Going to be ANOTHER lovely day here in Thunder Bay ..
Sharing a pic of my 2 Shamrock Plants that I nearly tossed out in January because I thought they were dead .. they sure fooled me !!
SLIANTE .. ~M~
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Pretty "M", got a plant for my birthday, looks similar ..must see if it's from the same family..there are mini/mini pink flowers on long threads..it closes at night and opens in the morning..almost looks like a 4 leaf clover...I'll just pretend won't I that it's a Shamrock...
Spent all morning making plans for Washington trip..the kids will absolutely go crazy spending Easter Monday doing the egg hunt on White House lawn...says we might even get to see Obama...probably from afar but even so it would be a treat for the 4 boys..
It's 55 here today..best enjoy because by the weekend possibly more of that white stuff
Betty .. the FER SURE name for Shamrock is OXALIS .. and it is 3 leaved (mine is) and it does close at night .. but .. my flowers are delicate and white .. pink would be so pretty.
My friend is waiting to gift me with a purple/burgundy Shamrock/Oxalis that she has .. I can hardly wait :-)
55! Wow .. disappointing day here .. was to have been warm and sunny ... but .. the clouds arrived as did a north west wind.
Went and bought a submersible pump this morning as the melting snow has caused quite the lake out there again .. SHEESH .. the lil darlin works like a charm .. has been running for about 3 hours and we are getting ready to turn it off soon ..best bux I have spent in a bit :-)
I sure hope your grands enjoy the White House Easter Egg hunt .. did you have to buy a ticket? Or .. is it first come first served ? WHat a neat thing to have a memory of doing .. you're a super Nan :-)
Best go check the pump
~M~
Just went and looked 'm' it's called a maltese cross (?) almost looks like a 4 leaf clover..such pretty little flowers..will take a photo for you..
No tickets required for the egg hunt..
I'm absolutely stunned that one can do to see everything, museums,zoo, all the activities and no charge...nothing better to leave the grandchildren with than 'fun memories'
Marilynne - if your friend takes too long, let me know and I'll send a couple of tubers to you. I grow them in pots on my patio in the summer and in the winter, I store the little tubers much like my canna tubers - in the toe of an old nylon and in peat moss. I gave up on them as house plants because they were always dropping stuff from the flowers.
Ann
Ann .. those Shamrocks are just Gorgeous!!! How do they do outside .. I've never attempted putting any of my housplants outside except when we have rain showers .. if the temps are aboe 70F I'll put all my hanging plants (Hoyas and Defenbachia and Spiders) out for a bath, but I bring them in after a couple of hours ..
I hear ya on the petals on the floor .. messy !!
Windy and cooler here today .. sure hope we can run the pump again as Lake Stephenson is again filling up as the snow melts .. I do highly recommend one of those lil pumps if you have 'BIG water' encroaching upon your back door/patio.
Off to visit my Hopsice Client today .. she is not doing all that well this week.
Enjoy your day
~M~
Ann, those plants are gorgeous...I do put most of my houseplants outside on the deck spring/summer and take them in before there is any chance of frost...
Not much blue in the sky but then it's early..regardless of it being overcast, there is NO SNOW! now watch me, I've jinxed it and snow will come..
Stacey (Fairy) is coming fromTemperance Mi..a 6 1/2 hr. drive on Friday to spend the weekend..lots planned and a few painting lessons as well thrown in for good measure...I'm so looking forward to her visit..we met last fall in Frankenmuth but didn't get to visit much..this will give us the opportunity to do so..
I was out in the gardens this morning picking up branch debris, peeking at greenery while listening to the birdies chirp, still no sign of robins..I sooo wanted to get my rake out..how silly of me, another blizzard yet to come..
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning,
Most of my houseplants get put into the screened porch around the windows in it for the summer - especially the Christmas Cactus which are always full of buds when I bring them in in September. The Oxalis I grow only in the summer and only outside. I HAVE been known to put some of the tubers right into my garden too, but they won't survive the winter if I don't lift them.
Was in to the Food cupboard for awhile this morning doing data entry from Monday's files - 47 families used the FC and we are doing national hunger count too; so it takes a bit longer. The coordinator is away over March break. I left them a note that I won't be in to interview this afternoon, but will come in to look at files.
I don't think I told you over hear, but I took a tumble at a rehearsal on Sunday evening. Was moving sideways through the pews at a church when I tripped over the leg of the pew. Because I had a viola in one hand and a bow in the other I couldn't grab anything to steady myself and I was surrounded by sold oak. I did what most musicians will do - salvaged the instrument, perhaps at my own expense.
The bow escaped totally unscathed and viola escaped with a sizeable scratch on the back but no major damage. I manage to go down between the pews. I DID hit my jaw on something - have a couple of little scratches on it, but the bigger damage was where my tooth contacted the inside of the jaw.
By Monday evening I was looking really pretty - sort of like a port wine birth mark. I think I'll stay away from places where I have to explain for awhile though I have concerts with two different orchestras on Saturday and Monday and lots of rehearsals. The rest of me is a bit stiff and sore, but I'm able to play.
Yesterday I had the viola checked out by the luthier who made it. He will repair the scratch next week and there were a couple of other orchestra "battle scars" that I had already spoken to him about repairing. Then I dropped a sofa cushion cover off to a tailor.
My sofa is quite old, but still in pretty good condition (Barrymore from the late 70s). But some of the cushion covers were made w/o adequate seam allowance and a couple of them were raveling apart. I tried to iron on a patch over the worst - mistake and it melted. This is just the side of the cushion and I thought, I'll just take it apart and replace that part of the fabric (I have an extra metre of fabric). Well, I had forgotten about the piping on both sides which made the replacement complicated. Decided to let someone else deal with it.
Then I stopped by my car dealer. I had taken it to them 3 weeks ago saying I was hearing a buzz that I thought originated in the exhaust system. Well, $1000 later, none of the work having anything to do with the exhaust, I still had the buzz and a new one to boot. They have one mechanic who's been there for 27 years and HE looked at it and took a test drive with me.
After about 30 minutes of tinkering he said yes, I need the middle muffler. But there were two other buzzes. One turned out to be a stone. The third is in either the catalytic converter or the turbo system and that one will be the expensive one. The car is old, but generally runs very well. I will repair it, I think. Definitely the muffler (which they had advised me 18 months ago might be needed soon). Probably the cat or turbo as well as I like the car. From now on, he's the only one that I want to touch my car!
Well, I'm off to practice some. We've got Sarka and Moldau from Smetana's Ma Vlast - both of which have a lot of arpeggios and notes and which are endurance challenges. Mostly I need to do them daily to get through the concert on Monday. Hope you all have a good day.
Ann
Oh Ann have not heard the Smetana for many years - one of my all time favorites!
Sounds like you are haveing an accident week! Hope things start to improve soon!
Weather here is slowly improving, a bit of melt everyday but not enough to melt the ice at my back gate which is several inches I think so I cant even crack it loose. I go out there every day and crack and remove as much ice as possible on the theory there will be that much less to melt and reflood the area. And I do need to get into my back shed for poop bags! Unfortunately it is a brick patio and slopes to the back - the lowest part of my yard.
Took my elderly foster dog to our groomer yesterday since he is having surgery tomorrow and had some great news - the groomer wants to adopt him! He is a sweety but at 13 yrs old was going to be a tough adoption.
Had a tough time working out at Curves yesterday morning and by evening found out why when I started dripping and snuffling and generally feeling miserable! Same this morning so I will avoid as much human contact as possible until I dry up!
JEEZ Ann ... so sorry to hear about your fall .. I can imagine you must have some colourful, and painful, bruising .. how did the tooth make out? Reason I ask is way back when , when my son was 2 .. he was sitting on my lap and was being fidgety (we were in church) .. my mom would hold him, then give him back to me .. she handed him back to me and as he tried to settle into my lap again .. he threw his head backwards and hit me square in the mouth .. I literally saw stars .. my upper lip became swollen as the days went by .. but .. that was it .. no harm done .. until .. FIVE YEARS later !!! I had to have root canals on BOTH my 2 front teeth .. both my dentist and i thought and thought re the cause, until my Mom piped up and said "remember when Murray hit your teeth with his head" !! Bless Moms for remembering everything :-)
Hope you have a great visit with Stacey Betty ^-^
Out to walk Lilly .. windy day still
~M~
The tooth seems fine and I didn't bleed - at least not externally. I DID go raid the church kitchen for an ice cube when I felt it swelling. But it looks like I got punched in the jaw. Good for DH that there were lots of witnesses to the fall. I just think it's a miracle that the viola and bow escaped nearly unscathed as all I could think of as I went down between the pews (one with hymnal rack on the back of it) was rows of solid oak on both sides of me and what it would do to the viola and bow.
You are so lucky Ann not to have done more damage to yourself...thank goodness no broken bones...
Spent an hour at the Garden Gallery this afternoon, they are now getting into high gear for spring..omg I could have come home with a truck full, but was good, didn't..did purchase a pkg. of seeds though that say -quick flowering (4-6 weeks) and non fail..how can you go wrong..lol
To add a touch of spring indoors they had poppies, how you'd tell they are not real, well let's say they are so realistic, even touching the stems/leaves they have the feel of hairs...
One could go outside today with a light jacket, infact sunshine came out..
Stopped to pick up lunch at a little restaurant nearby, waitress and I got talking gardens..she just purchased a house and now that the snow is gone realizes that the owners let the dogs poop all over..she wanted to plant veggies but says it could create echolii (?) so no garden this year other than her building an above ground enclosure...
Did find myself a project though..even know where to put it..yep I do..it was an outhouse, not quite as big as was used, where you'd normally sit to do your 'thing' it's a shelf for flowers..the cutest thing..I'm going to make one...just loved it..
Betty RE:floor cloths.............. Yours look so lovely. I have a chunk of canvas that I bought a 'while' back to make a floor cloth but was unsure how to do the edges and finish it neatly, Would you explain the steps that go into making one just as beautiful as yours, please.
A few years ago I had another piece of canvas to make a f.c. and ended up making a hammock and giving it away. It was a thing of beauty and ever so comfortable, wish I still had it. I could at least be able to look at it and dream 'cause I never seem to get the opportunity to actually use it.
Albertarosey
Love to share Albertarosey,
I don't use canvas though because I have found that it moves around and just isn't durable..
If you have a Home Depot or a flooring place nearby you can purchase a piece of linoleum which meets your needs...the one I 've just completed for underneath the dining room table is from a roll at Home Depot for $28.98 (I used the entire roll which is 6' x 8') smaller pieces can be cut from a large roll or you can purchase a small piece from flooring company...I try to purchase the roll with the least plastic type finish..although you don't paint on the finished side, you don't want the plastic to curl..
I lay my piece down and let the linoleum settle (i.e. rolled look it has because of being stored in that fashion) once it settles, only an hour or so .. I seal it, not really necessary but I find it doesn't take as much paint..(absorbing into the linoleum)..
I use Flecto Diamond Satin or matt varathane purchased at Home Depot but I think you can also get it at Walmart..it's the best because it's also used for final finish and it doesn't yellow and is great proptection..
I usually make a mixture of about 1/2 varathane and 1/2 water and with a brush I paint the entire linoleum (side you are working on) to seal it..won't take long to dry..
I also go looking to see if I've a beige or white gallon or pint of wall paint, not oil based nor high gloss, flat preferred and roll on a couple of coats..
Sometimes I pick an acrylic color that I want in my matt, I'll add water until it's quite liquid, brush it on my matt and then take plastic bags and just dab it on the matt to create a mottled effect..
acrylics from the $$$ store would work for navy/black/beige/white etc. all other colors I usually use Americana or Folk Art or whatever brand is available to you...you know those little bottles of paint only because they have better pigment..
Now I'm ready to design..
And that can be as simple as adding different borders of color and leaving the inner area solid, or, marking out a pattern, taping individually and painting color of choice..
Once the piece has dried, I usually leave it overnight, the finish protection coats are given..I put about 8 to 10 coats on a high traffic piece, for something that just might sit i.e. in a bedroom, rarely walked on, I'll do at least 4 or 5
More coats more protection..
As for how long I leave between coats, usually 1/2 hr. - you are using Flecto Diamond Satin or Matt finish Varathane, the same you used to seal the linoleum piece... (NO water added)
Know it sounds jibberish and confusing, simply let me know when you'd like to try one and I'll make sure I'm around..somewhere I have step by step with photo's on D.G. as some of the girls made one...
Betty, thank you for your generosity, both in words and in spirit. I never would have guessed that they were on linoleum!!!
It wasn't gibberish at all. Your directions are quite easily followed. I have in my arsenal of art supplies about 300 of those bottles of paint as that is what I use for my paintings. The back of the lino would give you a nice surface to paint on too. Wow, talk about a blank canvas syndrome, now all I have to do is plan the 'master piece' and get the greenhouse over with so I'll be a while before I can start but start I will.
Do you find that the edges curl up at all or does the varathane coats keep it flat?
Thanks to you I've certainly learned something today. Thank You.........Albertarosey
I never went to see my relatives in V.H. but I remember them saying they were just past the railway tracks as you come into town??? Try the phone book if you would please, the last name is Schnitzler. It would be so nice to get in touch again. I bet spring is going a whole lot faster in your neck of the woods. I've still got snow on the ground but today's sun is taking it. Thank God. Bye for now.
ViolaAnn........ my goodness - hope your mouth is better! You could have hurt yourself even more seriously - glad you were able to pick yourself up and "dust off"!!
Smetana - s'funny, that's my daughter's last name lol
I was talking to her in-laws tonight, and am going to visit them on the farm in Manitoba, in May. hahaha then I come online & find there's music by Smetana LOL
Enjoy the 1st day of Spring tomorrow!!
It's plus 8c right now, so gonna go hot-tubbing :-)
ciao & Take care!
Good morning all ... in just over an hour SPRING will officially arrive .. and .. even though it's only 3F outside .. the MOUNDS and MOUNTAINS of snow out this way are fading fast !!
Am on with VCARS today .. so won't leave the house unless I am called out .. lots to keep me busy around here .. not the least of which is grinding veggies for Lilly's food .. I have a vegetable crisper full of fresh veggies that need processing ..
Enjoy .. from me to you ^_^
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~M~
Thanks, Marilynne. Happy Spring everyone.
Just watching a show from the 'CANADA BLOOM' exhibition in Toronto .. WOW .. 8 new kinds of Coleus .. one is a gorgeous 'cut leaf' Coleus .. STUNNING !!!
Was a joy to watch .. and in the next hour they are going to be talking about 'vegetable gardening' ..
Lovely way to start the first day of SPRING :-) Lots of Vivaldi playing :-)
~M~
Happy 'Spring Day' everyone...may it be the last of the snow..hardly a drop in my yard..couldn't wait, can't have pond going yet but did set up a little water feature on front deck..said to self, running water won't freeze, it's a feature with a 2 1/2 ft. faux rock, so funny, covered in ice, just mini drips coming out...
Drats, should have planned to bring Stacey (Fairy) who will be arriving this aft. to the show...one can only fit so many things 'to do'in 3 days!
It's sunshine and will be sunshine days over the next 3 or 4 days..perhaps on cool side but sunshine is ok..
AlbertaRosey, the trick to not having it roll on edges is not to purchase the hard finish linoleum (good side one would use on their floors) there are more pliable pieces..just check them out before purchasing...
Finally...
Some nice warm days here - double digit temps so lots of melting going on. Just read in the paper we had twice as much snow this winter as last year! And a lot of it is still here! My flowerbeds on the north back yard are clear of snow. but there is still lots on the south and in front which does not get sun until midday.
I am in the midst of a rather nasty cold - have not gone out for 3 days except to take dog to vet probably another couple of days to go.
My sweet senior foster dog went in yesterday for his dental work and lost 16 teeth! Still lots left though. He also had a big lump removed from his side so I am keeping a bellyband on him so he cant lick - funny he licks the fabric! Tday he is very alert and hungry and went for a short walk.
16 teeth! Geesh, poor guy must have a sore mouth. :( Hope you feel better soon, fancy. Not fun having a cold, especially a nasty one.
Don he is still getting pain killers so watching him eat I dont think his mouth hurts - yet! Of course it is soft food too. He actually wanted something to eat as soon as I brought him home yesterday!