WORKING OUTSIDE….

New neighbor???
Opened the door this morning and look at what I seen…cute  little kitty…never seen him around before this…Maggie did not see him..thank goodness…she wants so bad to get close to kitties…very courioues about them…since she never gets close to one…looks like my yard needs mowed… 

Some work getting done….
They did a very poor job fixing and reseeding the mess made in yards during this constructions of water lines..left stones and roots…put very little grass seed on then covered it all up with a bunch of straw…so I just took off all the straw..raked up the stones and roots and what not…and reseeded it with my grass seed…I will be here to keep it moist so I will not need more straw…so the garbage man took it all away…

Also the other day I cut back the rose bushes…so today I tried to clean up the rest of the area…pulled weeds, grass, and other things not wanted like tiny starts of maple trees…I don’t have a weed eater so I pulled everything out…including the long grass that grew around my rocks…then rearranged them …it really needs mulch… but this late in the season I am going to wait until I get back next year…Why I did not stain the lattece work around the porch is beyond me…but I might be doing that next year also…

This is the front where I also cut back the roses…but that’s all I got done…I might do more here and I might wait until next summer..

So its about 1pm and what am I going to do the rest of the day..oops…forgot to hang out a load of laundry I did….that’s now done…it is so beautiful out there ..it makes me feel so good…good to be alive…I do have more weeds and junk to pull..but I am tired of that for right now…what I want to be doing is …on the road…geocaching, exploring, finding fun places to see …you know all the retirement stuff…but Florida..Dad said last night when I talked to him..it was hot and humid that afternoon that it about knocked him back in the house when he opened the door to get the mail…that I am not looking forward to…well that’s it for now thanks for looking and come back soon…blessings G&M

NEW BLOG?? A BOX & A LOST CACHE

LOST CACHE AREA

REPLACED LOST CACHE

GLUE THE BOX

GLUE PAPER TO BOX

LESSON I

PAINT BOX WEATHER Temp 46 was to be at least 55 but never made it. Some rain , and cold. nasty day!

New blog. I am thinking on making another blog, like two is not enough. If any of you have read my other blog you will know that I have been a decorative painter since the mid 80's and did it for a living over 15 years. Well its time to change my direction, and think I have found my new hobby I say hobby cause now I'm retired, lol. Altered art is the name, but it comes in many forms, the one I want to do right now to start is collage. Early this summer as I was purging I ran across a couple of cork bulletin boards. And thought they would make great inspiration board that I had been reading about on a few blogs on altered art. So I put them aside and finally this week got around to playing with them. I will show you what I got done so far on my next post.

But for this post I want to show you what I did today. I have several old cigar boxes, don't ask me why, cause I don't know why, so I thought might like to start on one of these. This one is a paper covered wood box. I left the paper on as it would be to hard to remove, and just covered it over with some sheet music I got at a yard sale. Music is from a book late 1800's . I used mod podge for the glue. glued all sides with the sheet music inside. Named this box Lesson l . You can see it in the third pic, it came from the first lesson in the sheet music book. Then on the outside I mixed it up with a few different colors of paint.

This is all I got done so far, but I loved doing it and I will keep you posted on the progress, but I really think it will be on a totally new art blog.

We were going to do some caching today but nasty weather put a hold on that. So here is that cache I lost a couple weeks ago, he replaced it and we went back to claim it. It was really way to easy.

Another thing I did this weekend of playing around is some sketching. I was reading this one altered art blog about how she took an on line class on drawing faces. This on line class thing sound pretty cool to me and I checked a couple pic's she posted of her work. Well I have never ever before drew a face (maybe tried a santa face) and I never sketched before, only doodles.

Sooo while looking at her sketch from the class I tried it and low and behold I did it! And it look like a human face, on the prim side as I don't know alot about shading and a lot of other things.

So I have been sketching up a storm all weekend. I know one thing when I get a new puter I am going to take some online classes. I can't wait!!

All for today folks, thanks for visiting.

G&M