plotting, planning & painting...

over the past month or so,

i have been plotting and planning

to dabble in some painting.

my plotting and planning ways

have led to dreaming big

but alas for reasons i have yet to mention,

will be a little while till the dreams

become reality.

you have to dream big though

so dream away i do...

i dream of our 

'been white for donkey's years' table

going a duck egg blue

or perhaps a vintagey green

i dream of our retro papered wall

becoming less orange 

and more something else.

what else i have no idea

but i ponder it daily

i dream of the rather

'in quite a sad state' midcentury table

found out on a thrifty jolly

becoming less sad and more peachy.

do i keep him all wood and wallpaper the top?

do i give him a once over with the sand paper

and paint his rather lovely lines

a glossy colour to brighten up the winter months?

for now a rather spiffy kitschy plastic doily cloth

covers up his sad ways

whilst i dream big for what he may become

in the meantime

i dabbled small with my paint brush.

i risked it for a biscuit

and i painted a lovely old frame

a rather jolly green.

a green i have used before

a green that is extremely good

at being jolly.

therefore a jolly good green

to know i feel.

the result of which i am most delighted with

and has continued to feed my dreaming big

and kept my thinking ways happy...

Tif 

wordless wednesday...

a friend...

yesterday at the thrift store,

 i found a friend...

a friend for my growing yarny bit of goodness,

for it was quite vulnerable in its current state.

vulnerable from falling on the floor

and gathering up Used Dog's hairs.

vulnerable from a passing pesky doggie

noting its crocheted loveliness

and making it into a nest.

this vulnerability was causing me to fret...

but all fretting has been cast aside,

thanks to the discovery of a fine friend.

the friend is very plastic,

he is also quite blue

and it would be quite true to say 

he is rather fantastic

at several things

fantastic thing one:

 keeping items off the ground

with his handy dandy little feet.

fantastic thing two:

perfectly sized for several yarn balls

and a growing bit of yarny goodness

and

fantastic thing three:

(quite possibly the most fantastic of all)

two handy dandy handles

for picking up on a whim

and taking along on journeys

should they occur on any given day

at any given moment

Tif