help

LennysRedRose my email is NOT a Gmail address it is a Yahoo address. I set up this account with Gmail by accident. Anyone know how to switch email addys?

My Calling?

So you know when you get that ahHA Moment... the one when you realize something that you KNOW you KNEW all along...,but just didn't know it? when you have an idea or an inspiration...but you have no clue what it is? or how to make it happen?

Well recently I had a brain storm in my head.....

I have mastered the art of creating a shabby chic cottage style home. It is comfortable and lovely. The beauty of this IS.... I do not shop RETAIL ( RETAIL = Bad Word in my vocabulary) I get stuff at Goodwill and garage sales.... and read TONS of cottage and romantic home magazines. I scour websites and blog pages and google shabby chic thousands of times every week so my brain is conditioned has absorbed all things "SHABBY" for years...I have stored inages of the lovely magazine pages in my head and NOW I can pick out a piece of vintage fabric in a bin the size of a mac truck in a thrift store lol...

I spend so much of time striving to recreate what junk and stuff that I have.... into what I SEE in the magazines and to JUST be creative...that I have begun wondering.... how to allow all the captured beauty that I have inside me... to escape. So far I have only used my talents in MY OWN home decor, my entertaining habbits, my collecting.... But Honestly...I have a BIG house folks.... and it is getting pretty FULL.

But I can't stop!!!! ALL my nagging obsessive voices in my head share my need to shop at thrift stores, garage sales and look through other peoples stuff on the curb or in retail dumpsters lol....and ultimately.... my need to make things pretty" conquers my reasoning. And once again...I am dragging something home.

I seem to have an "eye" for good stuff. I can pick out a vintage treasure in a box of dirty dusty crap in a dark musty basement sale....when no one else even looked in it.....and with my skills, clean it up, add a bit of lace... and make it into something wonderful. Or so I am told at least. So unless my friends are all pulling my EAR. I have some sort of talent.

So I have opened an "Etsy"... where I may showcase my "stuff" and use my God given "Eye" to accomplish many things...

To Share my "treasures"

To Express my creativeness....

And perhaps.... even make a little money?

visit me at LennysRedRose on Etsy.com or join my facebook page LennysRedRose ( typed JUST as you see it here)

and let me know what you think.....

No 4th of July for us..... we chose" Happy Apple Green "

So today Lenny bit the bullet and agreed to much dreaded trip to Lowes to seek out the forbidden fruit..... A gallon of the Apple Green paint color better known as the "obssesion".....And so it begins. A saga of scraping, sanding, spackle and sandpaper.....and trial and error. Of seeing the kalidascope of what's inside my soul.....right smack in front of my face to greet me every morning.  Where I wake up & drink that first sip of coffee is going to be morphed. From an ugly dull Catapillar to a beautiful bright confident Butterfly.

 So let's hope.... that  the end result.... will be like finally reaching a destination you have been on your way to.... for a very long time. Creating my version of HOME. Bringing a vision of my extremly safe, comforting "Happy Place" that I have danced in ....many times.... in my minds eye. Is coming to Life. This 4th of July.Next photo's I post will shw the results.

Farmville withdrawals

So the desktop computer crashed. No farrmville. OK. What DO I do then..... Well..... I could sit & read stuff on Craigslist while the baby plays..... But Um..... I don't have a dollar to my name. So sitting and reading ad's for "shabby chic STUFF" for sale and being this broke don't go well together. GOOWILL? Nope. Not until after I get paid later today....but Mom's in the hospital and I need to pay for parking later...so,.... no Goodwill for me  (**Yawn** ) damn I am soooo sleepy.  Exactly how long does menopause symptoms last anyway??

 OK....I will cook Bacon. Oilvia is hungry.

We're back.... breakfast shift is over now.Now  I will go outside with the toddler and water. OK that's done, and we're BACK. Plants watere. Weeds pulled. Sand fom Myrtle the Turtle sandbox EVEYWHERE.... cleaned up.

Dishes done
Sheets off beds in laundry...
OK going to do laundry.

all this was my usual routine... but with a dash of harvesting Crystal wedding trees and gathering Love Potions for breeding SHEEP thrown in the mix.... it was tolerable.

Day 3 of NO FARMVILLE.... will I survive? how much is a pack of cigarettes these days?? Oh yeah...I quit.

It s FRIDAY. That makes me smile.

Good grief is it 5:30 yet?