Summer has begun, I am behind as ususal!

A Happy Summer to everyone!! It is hard to believe that the year is half way passed.  I always have so much that I want to do and learn (about blogging and marketing online).  My latest excuse... Family has been up visiting this past week.  And I have had a wonderful week with my aunts, uncles and cousins.  I really enjoy doing genealogy and have spent hours reviewing and scanning old documents and pictures.  But this does keep me from doing the necessary things to that I should be keeping up with.  Oh well, those things aren't going anywhere, I can do them tomorrow ;-) 

I did get my stairway stenciled.  I haven't added the color accents yet, haven't decided exactly what I want to use yet.  But I like the simple look of the two colors at the moment.  They brighten up a dark stairway.  

  

One thing I did find out about my stairway is that my stair's riser heights vary.  A couple were 6 inches, 6.5 in., 5.5in  this made for quite abit of adjusting and frustration. Things are never as easy as one hopes.  I repeated the stencils on the upper section of the stairway.   I am really happy with the results so far.  I decided not to put the faux bois graining on the treads of the stairs at this time.  I am afraid that it will make the stairs too busy and take away from the stencilling.  Before I finish with the accent colors, I am going to be doing my son's bedroom floor. (This is what I am behind on).   I hopefully will get the rest of the furniture out of the way and get the old carpet out.   I did order my Large Feathered Damask stencil  (www.royaldesignstudio.com) that I am going to use on the floor.  I am getting excited about finally getting this project moving.   I will post more details in the next posting.  

I do want to repeat that stencils are great tools to use.  They are useful to DIYers, artist and crafters.   I have been inspired in many way by looking at projects others have done using stencils.   The Royal Design website shows many of these. 

One last thing,  If you live around Clark county Kentucky,  The public library is having an art show of local artist during July.  I put my gourds in that I showed in my last posting.  I also put in a Altered Mirror Window and an acrylic  painting below. 

I have to brag that I have a fantastically talented friend whom will have artwork on display also.  This would be a fun day trip for the family or a group of friends.  I hope that my Rowdy Golden Girls homemaker group will met up together and go.   Clark county has a wonderful library.  They do alot of activities for the community and a great research department.  I hope that everyone will come by and visit.

See you all when the month is half past.