3-22-11

10:00am

Good news, I was able to get

the hair coloring off my skin

with regular white toothpaste!

This morning I was in a paint

tinkering mood.  The walls aren't

painted the new color so I use

them as a practice canvas, lol.

So I tried my hand at old world 

faux painting.  To do something

like this would take a lot of

work and time on all these

walls so don't know if I would

do it.

I washed the painted wall area

with a yellow tinted glaze first.

Wiped it down with a dry rag

then put some cinnamon colored

walmart craft paint in a cup

with some water to dilute it.

I dipped my fingers in the cups

and fingerprinted the wall.

It ran down the wall some which

was ok.  I then took a dry sponge

and smeared the cinnamon color

in just a little then blotted

with the sponge.

Did ya get all that process?

See told ya it wouldn't sound

like fun doing large walls like that

or even a whole room. This

is all done over top the camel

paint color.
You might see it better
if you click and enlarge.

Faux painting can be fun.

Here's part of the faux wooden

train car I did in my son's room.

The windows in the train car

are done with a glow in the

dark paint.  

Up close photo.
Sure looks like wood!

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A tip from Dollar Stretcher-

Lawn Luxury

Create a thick luxurious lawn. With winter finally coming to an end, we all look forward to a thick and beautiful lawn without chemicals. You will need:

    * 1 cup seaweed extract (from nursery)
    * 1 cup fish emulsion (From nursery)
    * 1 gallon of cool tap water

Place all ingredients in a large bucket and mix well. Use a hose end sprayer to spray the lawn. This spraying is normally done in the spring and the fall and should keep the weeds out of the lawn, too!
MKW

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Birdie at feeder this morning.

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10:45-12:15pm

I wanted to see what my camel

paint color looked like on a wall.

Paint samples don't do it justice

once you see the whole picture.

It will still need another coat

because I don't have the proper

paint supplies and are only

using a mini roller.

I went ahead and left the original

wall color and didn't primer it

with white first.  I figured the yellow

color would be good for the undercoat

of a warm camel color.

Before and after.

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Mom had gone to the senior center

this morning and brought

me back these freebies:

bag of multigrain French bread slices,

onion hamburger buns,

2 large yellow onions and

2 large bags of grapes.

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Tonight's supper-

Potato soup with toasted
French bread slices.

I needed to use up about 
8 pounds of potatoes.
I'm getting tired of them staring at
me, literally, they've started
producing eyes!
So here's all the ingredients
going into my soup.
Got about 4 pounds of the potatoes
cut up (with skins) in a pot
of boiling water.
I'll take about 1/4 of those 
and mash them up.  That will
be the thickener for the soup.

 Mom's been getting me free bags
of French bread slices.  Trying
to find ways to use these so today
I took the bag she got me and dipped
them in a mixture of olive oil,
season salt, parmesan, and Italian seasoning
then spread them out on a cookie sheet,
sprinkled garlic powder on top
and baked til crisp.  I don't have
any crackers for my ham & bean or
ham & potato soup so will use these 
crumbled up on top.


The house smells sooo good with
 French bread slices in the oven!

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4:55pm

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 COLUMBUS, Ohio — Tornado sirens across Franklin County will sound on Wednesday morning as part of Severe Weather Awareness Week.

Franklin County Emergency Management officials said the drill, scheduled for 9:50 a.m., is part of a statewide tornado drill, 10TV News reported.

The test will take the place of the weekly siren test, which usually happens at noon.

We are also expecting severe

thunderstorms tomorrow.

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Tonight we had to go to Henderson
Rd. Kroger to get Tony's prescriptions.
While there I got me 3 more
Cadbury Eggs and 3 Peanut Butter Eggs
for free again.
We had to stop in Speedway to get
gas so I picked up a bunch more
of those candy coupons.


I also found at Kroger in the 
mark down bin some flameless
candles made from beeswax
and scented vanilla for $2.50 each.
When me and mom were in
Target last week pricing
them they were around $10 each.
So I jumped on these.
They take 3 AAA batteries
in each candle and not the round
and flat kinds.  Which is good
if ya ask me.  I can get rechargable
batteries for them.
The packaging said the batteries
should last 150 hours in these candles!
That would be like running
them 6.25 days straight.

Tomorrow we plan to get some
cheap black spray paint.  I then can
paint my lights I want to put
the flameless candles in.
Right now I have taken those
lights completely apart to get
ready to paint.  Let's hope I can
remember how to put them back
together!


Tonight I need to mark on 
my shelf I recently got
where Tony needs to cut it.
He plans to take it to work and 
do it.  Then I want to spray
paint it black also.


And (as if I don't have enought
projects going) Tony got me
some paint trays, a brush, rollers
and roller heads to be able
to paint on the walls some more.

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No longer using VHS tapes
and don't have a use for them.
Use the tape to crochet
reusable grocery bags!

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Has anyone tried Bio Oil?

I've been considering splurging

and getting a bottle.  

There's a $2.00 coupon on their

website if anyone could print off one

or two for me :0)

At the moment it's on sale at

Walgreens for $14.99

reg. $19.99 for a 4.2 ounce.

A 2 ounce is $11.99.