Pieces of Me - Day 3

Oh boy...today's Scavenger Hunt items are (1) front door and (2) kitchen faucet.  Wouldn't you know it's the kitchen faucet after I just put in 3 brand-new faucets in my bathrooms.  Oh well, maybe it's time to get a new kitchen faucet too.  Ooops no can do, have officially run out of money.

OK now how many times have you taken a picture of your kitchen faucet??  Looking at this closely it definitely could use a little clean-up around the ridges.  Should have done that before I took the picture.  Oh well.....

Next the front door....

Just kidding...did I have you there for a minute...did you go "oh my"?  Actually got this off of pinterest, love beautiful old doors and windows, but this is definitely not my front door.  Here is mine....

Or at least a snippet of it anyway.  Actually this is inside looking out and it is the "storm" door, not the real front door.  But it's prettier than my front door so this is what I am showing.  Plus I love all that pretty bokeh in the background.

Today's newspaper had some interesting news....did you know that "50 Shades of Grey" has saved B&N from going bankrupt??  Well, I don't know if it is the primary reason, but according to the newspaper the sales of this book has brought their profits way up.  So I guess this novel has brought delight to not only a gazillion women but also to the CFO of B&N.  Maybe if they changed the name of the book to "The Book That Saved B&N" I might consider reading it but as of today I have not.

And just because this is all about "pieces of me" I am posting pics of Bathroom #2 that is finally finished.  In this bathroom, the wallpaper was stripped and the walls were painted.  New bathroom sink & faucet installed, new curtains & shower-curtain, new overhead light fixture, new blinds, new toilet seat cover, and new "stuff".  It is very difficult to find "gold" stuff these days.  Everything is now burnished bronze or brushed nickel or shiny silver, not so much gold.  But if I wait long enough, gold will return.

So that's it for day #3 in this Pieces of Me Scavenger Hunt Week at Beyond Layers.  Been kinda fun. See you tomorrow for day #4.

"Boredom arises from routine.  Joy, wonder, rapture, arise from surprise."  ~ Leo Buscaglia

Until next time.....

Pieces of Me #2

Continuing on with our Beyond Layer's Scavenger Hunt Week today is (1) breakfast and (2) mailbox.  Oh dear, now I have to confess that many times I do skip right over breakfast.  I just get so busy with drinking coffee, reading the newspaper, catching up on blogs, writing posts, taking pictures in my PJ's that there just doesn't seem to be room for breakfast in that line-up.  I know..."most important meal of the day"...gotta get better at it.  I do enjoy vanilla yogurt on granola, but right now I am out of both, so no pics of that.  But I did manage a little something for the sake of art today....

I did enjoy a softboiled egg altho by the time I broke it open it had almost hardboiled, but it was still tasty.

Earlier in the summer my mailbox was covered with beautiful purple clematis, but not now.  I'll admit I did try to go back in my archives and search for those pics with the flowers covering the mailbox, but after awhile, decided...what the heck, this is pieces of me, right now, not a couple of months ago. As you can see, the mailbox is currently empty which sometimes is a good thing....no bills, no junk mail.

OK, now is where I try and attempt the proverbial 2 birds with one stone trick....I missed posting in Trisha's Barn Charm yesterday and today is Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday, using her new texture "dreamit" which by the way, I absolutely love, so here goes the 2 birds trick....actually I did cheat a little here...I took this pic earlier in the spring, but the texture is brand new.

Oops, just hopped over to Tricia's blog and found out that her modem is down so no barn-charm this week.  So those 2 birds are now one...

And just because, I am posting a couple of pics of my "thank God it's over" bathroom redo.  This is the downstairs powder room.  All that really happened in this room was stripping off the wallpaper and painting.  The bathroom vanity had been updated a couple of years ago with a new faucet and new hardware and a new toilet was added at that time.  This has now become a mini art gallery for a lot of my photography work.  The extra things on the wall all have special meanings...I will post on that in the future.  The color was changed from a dark forest green to this soft golden tan which matches colors in the family room.  I love it...with only a change in the color it made a huge difference.

And today, in honor of the death of Phyllis Diller (I know some of you probably don't remember her, but she was a terrific comedian who was always telling jokes about her age and her marriage) I want to close with just a few of her laugh out loud "quotes".   She lived to the age of 95, probably laughing all the way.

"I love to go the doctor. Where else would a man look at me and say, 'Take off your clothes?'

"You know you're getting old when your blood type's been discontinued."

"I realized on our first wedding anniversary that our marriage was in trouble.  Fang (the name she gave her husband) gave me luggage.  It was packed.  My mother darn near suffocated."

"Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight."

So on that note...Until next time....

Pieces of Me

In Kim Klassen's Beyond Layers Class she is challenging us this week with a kinda Scavenger Hunt in capturing images of stuff around me.  Each day M-F we will get 2 prompts and our challenge is to take pictures of those "finds".  Today, the first day, our scavenger hunt items are (1) favorite chair and (2) on our feet.

The first one is easy peasy...in the summertime you can find me in the rocker on the back porch, my favorite place during the warm weather months.

And the second one "on my feet"  well, not exactly "on" my feet, but most of the times "at" my feet is my sweet, sweet Toby.  He really doesn't like getting his picture taken, so naturally he didn't smile. Note to self...Toby needs to go to the beauty shop for a trim.

Before I sign off for today I wanted to share a few more pics from the Arboretum yesterday.  It was such a lovely afternoon and I did take a few pics.....

When I first drove up to the Educational Center where they have several lovely gardens planted I noticed quite a few people walking to their cars in the parking lot and they were all dressed to the nines.  You do know what dressed to the nines means don't you, or have I just dated myself again? The women all were wearing nice dresses and the men were in suits.  Ofcourse I had to ask "what's going on?"  A wedding....oh that explains it.  And then I saw the bride walking toward me, all smiles since she was now a Mrs.  I really wanted to take her picture but since the "official Photographer" was walking with her I thought perhaps not...!!  But I did get one of the bridesmaids...look at her hair!!

Doesn't this look like a lovely place for an outdoor wedding??

And a couple more....

Loved the light on these berries...!!

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.  All life is an experience"  ~  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Until next time....