White Wednesday

Welcome to White Wednesday hosted by Faded Charm:

This morning I jumped out of bed at 6 remembering today is White Wednesday...so I took advantage of the morning light coming through my bedroom window...after I made coffee.

Playing with light...

Upstairs bathroom

Dining Room

I love Wedgewood...

Kitchen...

I had no trouble taking the pictures this morning but luck would have it, for some reason they wouldn't upload on my home computer... so had to wait and load at the shop. Sorry I am late.

On the way to work this morning, I saw a coyote hunting for mice in a field. I see them every once in awhile and we have them around our house, but this is 35 miles closer to Chicago. I feel so bad for them, even though they have adapted pretty well. We keep taking the land from the wild life and keep building these strip malls, how many Home Depot's do we need??? Don't get me wrong, I love Home Depot but I would be willing to travel 10 miles to go to one, here there are 4 within 10 miles. It doesn't matter what state you are in anymore you will see the same scenery of strip malls and unless you read the signs you won't know where you are... I'm sorry, I despise it... And now, I am going to think about white and visit all your wonderful blogs and settle down. I hope you have a wonderful white day.

Blessings

Rebecca

Sunday Offerings

Forgotten treasures...will be your treasures too... Great old tintypes and I have no idea where they came from or when I bought them!

Christmas in July...that is what it feels like today. I have been in my studio for the past few days cleaning. I have 2 studio's one at the shop and one at home. The one at home is attached to the garage and has been neglected for a year and a half, since I opened the shop. I am at the shop 6 days a week so there has been little time to putter around in my studio at home. So the spiders and dust have taken over! But I have found buried treasure...things I put away in bins that haven't seen the light of day in quite awhile...for instance a box from France postmarked 9 of 07 unopened...little treasures. All this I owe to Karen at My Desert Cottage because I joined her studio tour "Where Bloggers Create" July 24th, next weekend. It feels great to have my studio back and it will give me a new incentive to create when I get home. I thought I would share in my found treasures and offer a --Give Away-- just leave a comment and I will pick your name at random the day after the studio tour and announce the winner on White Wednesday. Oh, and what is the give away? It will be a sampling of found treasures.

Here are some of the found treasures...this is an old needlework with metal thread, it looks German but I can't read it. Anyone know what it says?

Some wonderful chenille and metal netting.

Love the tag...

This old French print fell behind a shelf...

Basket of old clay millinery stamens.

A box of military bullion

I found these drawings I did, when we were in England. They are of the cottage we stayed in with Judy at Tapestries of Nature

Old composition embellishments

My box from France...

And a bin of Christmas goodies

A box of pictures...my sister and I in our Easter dresses our grandmother made for us.

More French goodies

Christmas garlands

Old silver garlands

I hope you are having a wonderful Sunday...Peace to you and may you find a treasure today

Blessings

Rebecca

White Wednesday

Welcome to White Wednesday by Fadedcharm



This is Alex, we enjoyed him for 18 years but he went to kitty heaven this past year. He of course loved cream...

Last week I had White Wednesday in my home, this week I am in the shop. Here is a variety of shop stuff...I use architectural elements in the shop and at home, it adds texture to white decor, white can be flat and lifeless without it. There are many shades of white, I think Benjamin Moore has the best selection of white paint. I never use a ceiling white, I tend to always use creams and linen color with my antiques. If I am painting a piece that needs to be white I never-never-never use a spray can. I brush the shade of white on that I want using a flat or eggshell finish, then I use Brewax over the paint after I sand and then rub. This gives the piece that old hand rubbed look. The only exception for using a spray can is on wicker and then I use a brush over the spray paint.

I don't know why that green is showing, it is not supposed to :(




I love cake toppers and have a collection of old wedding treasures in my dining room--these are just a few of them that I parted with and brought to the shop.

I enjoy decorating old bottles.

My daughter Jody's photography

One of my finds at the Paris flea market...an old sketch book and post cards

Thank you, Kathleen for including me on White Wednesday - it has been fun. Thanks so much for stopping by and I look forward to hearing from you, I enjoy all your comments.
Have a wonderful white wednesday!

Blessings

Rebecca