A Cinderfella story

Once upon a time, there was a Viking Artline chair. His green vinyl coat was tattered and someone had splashed his body with flesh-toned paint. He thought his last days were destined to be spent on the porch of a small little junque shop and he shivered at the thought of Vermit winters.

One morning just as he had given up all hope, Queen Dusa spied him on her way into work. She contacted the proprietress of the the junque shop to pay his bail. In short order, the Viking moved to her castle, where he languished for several months in his deplorable state. Finally Queen Dusa lovingly dismantled him, removing his torn vinyl and painted sacrilege. She applied baths of Red Mahogany and Gunstock Miniwax stain to his wood, and gave him new cotton padding and a jacket of grey tweedy suiting fabric.

He has regained his rightful place in the Mid-Century court where he shall live happily ever after!

I gotta get a bigger car!

Because this side-of-the-road foundling didn't fit in the Saturn. Amazingly enough, it was located right next to the apartment of a co-worker. So I tied a note to him and left him on her porch. Another co-worker who lives near me graciously brought Rotex home to the CattyAbode. My plan is to have a local upholsterer make removable denim cushions (just waiting to hear back regarding yardage, etc.)

And the coworker on whose porch I left Rotex? Had scoped out the chair the previous day, but decided she didn't have enough room for him in the apartment. She found it funny, that when she went out the next morning, he had mysteriously made his way to her porch. I'm just amazed nobody adopted him before I did!

Thinking Spring

It's been waaaay below zero here for the past few days. To counteract the chill that seeps into bones (not to be thawed for a few more months), I'm thinking Spring. (all images from Google Images, saved to my server) 

Lilacs (should have been our state flower!)

Lambies!

The Green Mountains

The cure to what ails me

When I'm not feeling motivated or crossing items off my list, a quick organizational project makes me feel better. Here's the top drawer of my tool chest. I just sifted through some of the stuff that had accumulated there and put it all in the proper containers. *sigh* I'm happy for a little while.

And hopefully the touch up spackling and painting project will be finished this weekend. I sanded down the craft room area and found it needed one more coat before I painted.

Another one off the list

Here's the upstairs cat tree torn down and ready to fix. The wall has its final skim coat and is curing before painting. Let me go on record saying the CatMan rocks my world: he was all over the this project!

Here's the cat tree after stabilizing. The CatMan attached L-shape brackets to the underside of the shelves and main pole. I rewrapped the torn areas of the main pole with rope and we reassembled it.

The cats are still a bit tentative - I haven't witnessed any 'flying squirrel' leaps which is their normal late night behavior. After one occurs, we'll deem the project a success.

Oh, the indignity!

Of a cat hat. A co-worker saw this pattern and thought it looked like fun. I knitted one up, but it was too small for all the cats except Isabelle. I modified the pattern a tad, and the other two were fine! No, Izzy isn't mad - she's 'just drawn that way'. And yes that's a yellow, treble crochet mohawk.

All the seasonal decorations have been purged down and organized into 3 boxes. I'm looking forward to  going to just one place to find what I need.  

Good Intentions

Ah, the fresh beginning of the new year.

Ah, the reality of the weekend after as witnessed below - 

One project on my to-do list is to organize all my seasonal decorations in one place. Well I got them all in one place, but this is neither the organization or the place where they will eventually reside. 

(See that white strip behind the chair? That's one of the spots I need to finish spackling/touching up.)

There's more on top of the pie safe. 

However the interior of the pie safe was purged and organized this week.

With all this organizing and purging, the knitting WIPS are languishing in the project box. :- (

 Here's hoping 2011 week 2 will see some items crossed of the list!

Hello 2011

image courtesy of Google Images, saved to my server

We're back from our Tour. Much fun was had by all, gifts were given and received (and appreciated on both sides), and I even got in a little junqing in Lewisburg and State College. I'll post some pics once I finish digging out of our dirty laundry!