Playing With Pictures

Every time Mike goes out of town I find myself some projects to work on. Things I've been meaning to do or wanting to do but for whatever reason never seem to get to them. I had several little things I wanted to get done while he's away this time. First, I wanted to fiddle with a lot of pictures that I have and wanted to get put out. I know I've mentioned this before, but I LOVE those Kodak picture makers! We have one of Mike's baby pictures framed. We did have it hanging in our bedroom with one of my baby pictures. They didn't look right together though because his baby picture is black & white and mine is in color. I took my baby picture to the Kodak picture maker today and copied it as well as turned it in to a black & white picture. Tomorrow I'll head out to find a black frame for it so I can hang them back up. My original picture had a crease it, that's the line you see in the picture. It's pretty old, you know :).

I also took along a really old picture I have of my brother and I when we were little. I remember when we had it taken too....My parents took us to Six Flags for the first time. When we first got there my dad gave each of us some money to spend while we were there. When we saw the Old Time Photo place we both wanted to get dressed up and have our picture taken. We split the money my dad gave us for them. I'm so glad we did that. I have a small one in color that I wanted to have printed up again in black & white so I could frame it and put it in my little room. Here's a pic of the framed picture and then another of it on a shelf I recently put up in my little sewing room. It sits beside the buttons that Mike gave me. My mom painted that ceramic girl for me on the right of the shelf when I was something like 7 or 8.

After I printed those up, I got crackin on some pictures I've been wanting to print up in black and white for a photo collage I wanted to put downstairs. Yes, I do have a thing for black and white pictures :). Most of the pictures I've put in here have a story to tell. I love all of them and remember what I was doing when each one was taken. They all make my smile. I think it turned out really well, although I do wish I would have bought a much better frame.

One of my next projects is going to be to re-cover the seat of a chair. I bought this chair at an antique shop in West Virginia when we went to visit my parents one day last year. It was only $5 and I couldn't pass it up. It's really old and the seat is really ugly. The chair's in good shape though, so I'll re-cover the seat. I thought about painting it, but I'm not going to. I love that it looks old. I'll be putting it in a corner in my little room so if I'm down here sewing or something, there's a seat available if someone wants to come down and visit with me. I went to Joanne's today and brought home a bunch of fabric samples. I decided on a blue fabric with a small white pattern that runs through it. Here's the chair with it's ugly old seat with a scrap of the blue fabric I'll be heading back to get tomorrow. It's a lovely little chair.

Thanks so much to those of you who left comments and emailed offering your condolences for Mike's Grandmother. I am incredibly sad that we're not able to go to the service tomorrow. Such is life. Everything can't be easy all of the time. I am keeping myself very busy with my little projects though so I've not had too much time to sulk. Plus, I've got a lot of things to look forward to over the next several weeks :).