Got my Slipcovers!

So the slipcovers for my new (old) sofa are finally done!

What do ya think?

 you can read about the sofa progression here if you like...

Of course there are throws strewn all over it, and it's all a little messy.  I'm always attempting to take photos around messy pillows, and throws, and guitars, and cords from guitars, doggie toys, remote controls, crooked lampshades, eye glasses,cell phones,  glasses of soda... and sunlight blaring in the window.  

If i waited until everything was perfect and staged to take a photo, you would never, not once see a photo from this little house!!

anyway... just look at the coral color on the vintage throw (below) from my friend's shop... i'm debating buying it, but..., 

I CAN'T BUY EVERYTHING!

good grief!!!  

there are just too many wonderful things in the world!

even so,  isn't the color soooo yummy!

and speaking of the coral throw from my friend's shop 

"Fetch Antiques and Interiors"

JUST LOOK at this huge galvanized bucket filled with dogwood and wisteria, and the vintage doors propped on the wall

Oh my gosh, i am dying over this bucket, and i want it so bad, but it is really really big.

I measured and the top is 28 inches across... 

I mean my house is small, just a little cottage bungalow really, and i don't actually think i have a single place for it! 

believe me, i'm sure trying to think of a place!

Anyway, just feast your eyes on this gorgeous stuff...

I'm sure you can see why i would want it all!

so completely wonderful, i can't stand it....

Ok, Cindy, get over it, The bucket will not fit in your house!  It will take up half the dining room and look stupid, and you can't afford it!!!

But, but, but....

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Little Chair ...

My friend had this sweet little vanity chair at her shop the other day, and of course i picked it up and hauled it outta there...

I swear she must look for things she thinks i'll like when she's out shopping, and just wait to see when i'll spot it in the shop and grab 

it up...

when i walk in she probably starts counting

5 - 4 - 3 - 2- 1

bingo! she spotted it! 

I'm pretty sure i'm her best customer!

Here is the chair with a little makeover

 Recently i was at another cute little shop in town, and found this vintage tablecloth, i think it is barkcloth fabric, what exactly is that anyway???

It has the most wonderful texture, and i couldn't resist the flowers and  cheerful colors.  

It was a little tattered and worn in spots, but i just couldn't leave it... 

Why does the barkcloth feel like that, why is it so yummy!?

As i paid for it i was thinking, 

i don't need this, 

i don't know what i'm gonna do with it, 

why am i buying it... etc... 

...you've probably been there...

anyway, it wasn't long after buying the tablecloth that i ended up with the sweet little chair

and voila!

the pairing was meant to be

it was fate

sigh... so romantic

is it mentally ill to fall in love with "things" like chairs and fabric???

here is the before

   

 here is me draping the tablecloth on the chair getting the idea

is that how you spell draping, or is it drapping... why does that word always look so weird?

and, here it is painted,  dressed up,  and ready to use as spare seating anywhere!

 

that fabric just makes me so happy every time i look at it!

it's funny... i don't even like red

but i love this

and Courtney's red and white gingham sofa

scroll down you'll see the edge of it

and you'll be at the most beautiful blog ever! 

anyway, hmmmmm, maybe i do like red

geeesh

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So it's my daughter Ellie's birthday again

and time for another pansie cake!

  

 so easy to make

and so unlike the purple penis cake her friends gave her

lord help me

I was a little short on pansies this year, so I went to Home Depot and stole every one of those pansies

just chose the best colors to match yellow icing, plucked a few here and there and left as pretty as ya please

heeeyyyy, it was for a good cause ya'll!

 

see how i justified that

i'm  a total criminal sometimes

  

anyway, Ellie turned 23 April 15th

and she's finally almost sane!!!

YAYYY!!!!!

well, except for a few exceptions 

and that's pretty much all i've got for now!

 

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I HAD to Show Ya'll This....

Just LOOK at this crazy romantic sofa!

You may remember i have a friend who has a shop with two other partners

I am the featured artist for the shop

My friend always gets really jealous when other shop owners want to sell my work

and she'll say

"You are exclusive to my shop!"

she's sooo bossy about it too!

But it makes me feel kinda good for someone to get jealous over me and my work

so i kinda like it...

seeeeee... here is one of my paintings at an event held at the shop

 

Anyway, one of the partners brought this sofa in to sell the other day

I almost fell over dead when i saw it!

Isn't it fun and cool and pretty!

 

the coral, white and gray pillows from Home Goods look so great on it too... 

a modern touch to the whole Romantic, Hollywood Regency flair and fluff

it even has a matching chair!

Donna, the partner who discovered and redid it said,

  "you should have seen it when i found it"!!

which says to me that the sofa must have looked fairly rough around the edges

most likely with some very dated worn fabric and cushions

She had it covered it in a heavy soft white linen

and tada!

a masterpiece!

she looks like a million dollars! 

i thought ya'll would get a kick out of it too

 

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Just Stuff... !

Hey there!

I've been sorta all over the place lately.  Trying to figure out how in the world to work full time,  paint paintings, do house stuff, clean my dogs ears, pay bills, (thanks Verizon for the random upgrade fees) do dishes, cook, groom, garden, vacuum, wash windows, clean my car,(thanks for the massive bird poop blast right after I washed my car birdie!)  shop, plan birthdays, keep up with my kids unending dysfunctions and drama, answer emails, manage panic attacks,  mail prints, fix dinner, clean the toilets, do laundry, figure out what to wear.... etc etc and on and on... much less blog, catch up on facebook, Pinterest, (oh how I love you)... manage Etsy, keep my webpage even remotely current...


Hmmmmm... 

does that sound like too much stuff to you?  it does to me!


 ok, and i'm not like... ohhhhhh poor me... I know you have lists just as long, probably even longer!


i mean what the heck man!!??

is life supposed to be this crazy?
why are we so busy??


So, you know what i think, I think we should just stop everything right now and look at pretty pictures of pink hydrangeas! 

and get our nails done...

and go shopping !

check this sweet little thing that I found at Trader Joes today

don't love Trader Joes that place is crazy!

I'm a Whole Foods girl myself
(not that it isn't crazy there too!)
 but I sure do love this hydrangea i found there

let's just be with how pretty this is for a minute

 




I did a hydrangea photo shoot and tried it out everywhere in the house of course...

I mean, it's Spring, it's Spring, it's Spring!!!
YAAAAYYY!

thank the lord!

I'm putting flowers everywhere!

ok, one more... this is a painting waiting to happen

the hydrangeas were in a little pot, with bright pink paper,

so I put them in a round vase

and took some brown paper and wrapped it around

and added the sticker from Pom Pom interiors from when I bought my pink pom pom throw from them

I saved it because it was so cute

 I know it's random and makes very little sense to have "pom pom" on the whole thing

but I don't care, it looks cute to me!

you can see the cabinet door open in the background

why are cabinet doors always open?

So to continue with this chaotic rambling about life and flowers and whatever 

which maybe involves being 59 years old, and celebrating mr. fractured's 60th birthday and heading to 60 myself

and thinking every twitch in my body is an impending heart attack

which is completely not out of the realm of possibility now

I decided my priorities included getting my nails done, and even had little flowers painted on one of them


thank goodness i didn't get each one painted with a different type of cupcake or something  


it's hard to resist all the fun painted nail looks out there 
 

...listened to Missy Elliott (rap) on my car radio full blast

 awesome!

I love rap

Loved it the minute I first happened upon a rap song on the radio, before my daughter was born 22 years ago

I'm such a rhythm Ho

went to the local consignment store and found a dress that makes my boobs look good

well sorta...

 

maybe with a cute jacket and some black leggings and boots... ?


 I mean they're only gonna look so good at 59
 

 and those big ole reading glasses give me away a little

ya think?

and i think it's waaay past time for some Botox in those gigantic crevasses between my eyebrows
they make me look like i'm mad all the time! 

geeeesh, I think i'm having a mid life crisis

wait a minute!!!

mid life crisis was 20 years ago!

is there even a name for a being almost 60 crisis!?


I mean that really is a freaky emotional age milestone... 
eeeewwwwww... i don't like it

Ok, so i don't think we should talk about that anymore


did you notice i have a new sheepskin rug from Costco?

I think I like it.. not totally sure
but the dogs sure do!

And, I finally got some fabric to recover my sofa!!!

YAY! 

I sold my other sofa so I have the money to recover this one!

excited about that!

...anyway... 
I brought a little spring to my mantel with this sweet little bird from TJ Maxx 

I'm a sucker for bird stuff

found a tarnished silver tray at the thrift shop, and added some white tulips to it

changed out a light fixture from my little entry

from this...

to this...

I have no idea what to do about the cord showing

you can see where I need to touch up the paint on the wall
finally got that done after this photo was taken
 

this was last weeks bouquet from my yard....
sweet little spring blossoms
 

and mr. fractured got me a new computer at a discount from his job at IBM which is so sweet of him

the computer has a whole new operating system called windows 8

it is very very different than what i'm used to

very different

in fact I'm pretty sure I broke a record  for the most frequent and imaginative use of the "F" word in the last week

yep, pretty darn sure

...don't get windows 8... 

Aaaanyway... that's a random combination of just of a few of the things going on with me

I've missed so many of your posts, i hate that!

I try catch up whenever I can..

It makes me crazy

I feel like all my friends are out doing fun things

and i'm stuck at home doing my homework 


so i'm off to catch up on you guys while i have a minute!

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Mama Sheep Snuggling her Sweet Baby...

Here is a new painting still sitting on the easel with wet paint on it...

Phew... it was pretty challenging

And, as always it's never finished while i can still get my hands on it...

Even now as i look at these photos i see things i want to touch up and change

small changes, but it will drive me nuts until i get to it next weekend

  

 I'm just gonna show it to you guys anyway cause i don't have anything else interesting to talk about!

 She is just like any mama...

Always happiest when she can keep her little one close by and safe...

mama has snowy white eyelashes...

and baby has just a touch of pink in her little nose... i want to kiss that nose and that fleecy little face!

Here is a little picture collage to show you the progression of the painting...

Oh yeah,  and if anyone is interested in purchasing a giclee print of

"Clairebelle" 

I just took her to my photographer for a photo session and she will be available as a giclee print soon

She is 24 x 24 and i don't know the price yet, but will soon...

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I want to ask ya'll a couple of questions

Two people have told me they are not getting my updated blog posts in their email like they used too

 has anyone else noticed that?

And have any of you had problems with Pinterest showing you lots of random pins instead of the pins from people you follow?

I've tried to contact them...

You can imagine how easy that is

Anyway, after i stalked them with complaints someone finally wrote back and i explained the problem in an email

Haven't heard back yet, so just curious if any of ya'll have had the same problem???

So anyway, that's all i've got for now

 I'm off to see what you guys have been up to and to catch up!

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ok... just got an update on the Pinterest thing so i thought i'd share it with you in case any of you are having the same problem
here is the response from Pinterest

Hi Cindysfracturedfairytale,

Thank you for contacting us and I'm sorry to hear you've been having so much trouble with this! We're always trying new things to improve pinners' experiences on Pinterest. You're currently seeing one of the new things we think might make Pinterest better. This is temporary and your home page should be back to normal soon. In the meantime, you can find your following feed by going to pinterest.com and clicking Following at the top of the page. There you should find your normal feed from people you are following.

I'm very sorry for the confusion this has caused!

  I tried it and it worked!  So now i can see all the beautiful pins from the people i follow again,!

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