Tinkering Around

I was told yesterday (by mr. josh) that I should proofread my entries before publishing them. I should mention that I rarely do that, even though I really should. It's a bad habit. I tend to not think about that when I'm rambling on about one thing or another.

Yesterday we went around to participate in some fallish activities. First was the craft fair at the local high school which was packed with people and vendors. I was happy to see that most vendors were selling handmade items rather than already purchased ones. We came away with a beautiful wooden accent table.

Josh hadn't been to the fair in almost twelve years and was really looking forward to visiting his old school. High schools are funny in the way they are all the same in how we remember them. The smell, the long hallways, the water fountains, the gym and the cafeteria. All of our memories are tucked away in the walls.

The quilt display was pretty amazing too. They asked us to vote on our favorite quilt for the viewers choice ribbon. I should mention that these ribbons were pretty nice, I found myself drawn to the tiny quilting work on them. My vote went towards the outer space looking quilt. I knew I wanted to vote on a quilt that didn't already have a ribbon, and I wonder if anyone else voted that way too?

After the fair we headed to the pumpkin festival for pumpkins and a walk in the corn maze. The maze was hard, which we weren't expecting. If you didn't have a map you could get lost in it for hours. Getting lost in corn would be a nightmare, a breeding ground for insanity.

Tinkering: I'm still putting things away around here. Everything is unpacked, but I have a huge to-do list as far as decorating goes. I love that about moving into a new place, which oftentimes can turn into a never ending to-do list.

I once overheard a lady saying that it took her about six month to have her apartment how she wanted it. I can relate to that. I've been doing little things here and there. Painting a rug, hanging shelves, jotting ideas on paper, moving furniture around and collecting ideas.

My friends+sister are coming up next weekend for a visit, plus my mom and her friends rented a cabin nearby too so I feel like I want to get as much done as possible before then.

I'm really excited about the rug I painted about a week ago. We lack carpeting in our new place as well as the wooden floors we left behind in Brooklyn. So giant rugs are filling in where the cold tiles are. There was a green rug left behind in he dining area that was kind of sad looking and knew I wanted to paint it. I found inspiration for a simple rug pattern in one of my home decorating magazines and figured I could do it freehand.

I'm totally in love with how it turned out. I was worried it would like like a five year old got a hold of paint and went crazy on the rug. It might actually look like that, but here it is:
Before:


After:
Sorry for the bad lighting, I don't have my usual photo editing program at the moment. Until then, these will have to do.

I also started decorating one of the walls in our dining/living room area. I'm rethinking the plates so close to the top of the wall, and really want to paint over the light blue borders around the top and bottom of the house. This table I got from a stoop sale in Brooklyn for ten dollars. I think people were surprised that I wanted to bring it home, its really old with cracked paint on the top. I love it, and would love to find out why there are arms that fold out in front of it. I've thought about repainting it, but I just don't have the heart to cover up the chipped green paint just yet.

The cake stands are from the salvation army in Brooklyn. A daily refuge for me right across the street from my old job. I miss that place so much! Most of the items came from the Fort Greene neighborhood meaning: really great stuff. There was a book editor who gave away all of his/her pre-released books too.

What else? The old keys are gifts and from ebay. I also have my own version of the "keep calm, carry on" posters circulating the design world lately. And my little print I made of an umbrella with the words "I've got you covered". I have plans to make a few more digital versions of that one and possible some painted ones for my upcoming etsy store.

Thats is for today, Its Sunday and I'm going to do some planning for the week.