Showing posts with label cat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cat. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

For Today...


FOR TODAY
Outside my window... it's overcast, not too sunny, but hotter than H..L
I am thinking...should I bake the bottom of the wedding cake first or the top?
I am thankful for...my husband going off to work,
From the learning rooms...I'm learning to remain calm, it doesn't always work but that's what learning is...
From the kitchen...cake, cake, and more cake.
I am wearing...my pyjamas (did I tell you I love to bake in my pyjamas)
I am creating...quite a mess, with baking in one room and life happening in the other...
I am going...to the supplier store, haven't gotten a topper for the wedding cake yet. I'm thinking if it's too hot to travel by bus, I may just use some real flowers
I ...just finished reading "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake"
I am hoping...no one of the guests can taste my "feeling" in these cakes. But even if they do, they will only taste my complete joy of baking/and eating cake.
I am hearing...our ceiling fan whirl around.
Around the house...I've decided I need to focus on this cake and it's assembly so it will just be clearing up kitchen after baking. If I am /when I'm finished I'll do a quick crumb coat and then pop them into the freezer, much easier to decorate a frozen cake.
One of my favourite things...baking
A few plans for the rest of the week:Dr. appointments, seniors visits, another stopover at my mother's, and then... no painting this week,
Here are a few pictures I am sharing...remember that rose that's given me such a lovely view all spring and summer, I just needed to capture it.


The inspiration






So when my cat was sitting at the window, I decided he was uncomfortable, not to mention he keeps falling off and getting mad, I thought I'd paint a shelf one of my painting buddies gave me.




The purpose.




It looked like this when I got it.






I painted it a black/brown and photocopied a sheet of music, (the actual sheet was too thick to apply) I then painted the copy with tea, yes tea, applied it to the shelf (which was already dry) and let it dry also. Then I painted these two roses on top. Fini








What do you Think? It will be screwed to the wall just under the window frame. I'll have to put a protective coat on so I don't have claw marks.




I have two of these so, one for the kitchen window and one in the dining area. Not to0 cheesy?



this meme is hosted by The Simple Woman's Daybook.

P. S. Jennifer asked how I applied the sheet music, I use a product called Right Step, is a prep for surfaces to be painted. I suppose you could decoupage this, but I'm using this for my cat, so I expect it will need to be washed or dusted and any sort of moisture in my experience re-activates the decoupage medium, whereas, the Right Step can be painted, sanded and varnished and it works well with water, like when I leave the window open and it gets rained on, or watered with the sprinkler, I can even sand it lightly and re-varnish. So depending on what you do with it... I believe Right Step is available at Michaels, and other craft/painting stores.

P.P.S, you'll notice my Dutch Clogs in the background of my photo, it's my little reminder of a Welcome to my World, wish I could remember to speak Dutch, we did when we were kids, can you imagine Polish kids speaking Dutch, it must have been quite an ear full.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Good Morning, Good Morning...

On Tuesdays when I post my "just for today" thoughts, one of the prompts is around the house well!(sigh). This is what's happening today around my house. I don't often get to sleep in in the morning, so today I thought it's Saturday I don't have to be anywhere before 2p.m. I'll just have a little lay in. Between my husband and my cat... that didn't happen. My husband is off on a surveillance adventure with his Private Investigators Company and he's obviously a little nervous. He's been packed for days, and yet he keeps checking his stuff, and then the cat wakes up. When we first got this cat he'd wake us up at dawn, and then we figured he's hearing those little birds in the little birdhouses my neighbor has. So I just shut the window, that gained me a half hour of sleep. Now I'm not sure what his problem is, but he wants to eat at 5a.m. so my loving son is suppose to fill up his bowl before he goes to bed, if he does not this is what I find in the morning...


He sits and waits (loudly)for his teaspoon of milk. My eldest son taught him this one, he use to get up to open the pool at 5a.m. and have cereal so they would dine together. Now he doesn't live here anymore and we're stuck with this task.

You know how you can't teach an old dog new tricks. And then he has his teaspoon, I'm fully awake and he crawls back to sleep in his swan.

By the time I get to my function at 2p.m. I'll need a nap. So good
morning, good morning.


And now I need to shop for some blue shoes...

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to my wonderful son,  it's bee 33wonderful years. Hope this year proves to be the best yet.