MC AND "HIS" SPACE

He's getting there!
I would say we are 70% finished with the "Room".  We still have a few projects left.

Only one OOOPS moment when one of the large shelves I was holding while MC was bracing the side piece fell on my hand...but....  Really, it was OK.   One of those moments when you are afraid to look at your body part for fear of what you will see.... 

MC'S WALL UNIT

This side has been dedicated to his Air Force life!

Under the Clock is his Sword from his ROTC Corps life at VPI...Today known as Virginia Tech

 MC is making a sign to place on the back wall  of this shelf.  It will read,  MC's Little People. He also will be making stands for each of the figures

 In addition to MC's Little People

we have

His School Stuff

Cook books

and....

A special needlepoint that Patti made, just for him, eons ago!

(you don't see the copier, do you?  Just pretend it's not there.)

  The room is directly off the Foyer at the front door, at the front of the house.  This makes it very, very visible. It's one of the first things one sees when entering our home.  We never paid much attention to the detail of the room, felt good it was kept neat and orderly!

When a neighbor commented that we had put so much into the other rooms, we realized we needed to address MC's private space!

What's left for the Wall Unit are round black knobs that are on order for the lower cabinet.

The largest,  of the other projects,  are drapery panels for these two windows that face the street.  We have  Bali Neat Pleat shades which are perfect for privacy, add nothing to "design"!

I have been looking at fabrics and fabric ideas for these windows for over a year.  Never had the need to make a decision and never had a direction!

Saturday, MC and I went to OHCO Warehouse.
http://www.ohcoinc.com/

 

 

We played it safe and brought home 8 swatches, or cut off pieces, to see if one would stand out.

It's funny, the second we brought in all the cut off pieces only one said IT'S ME!  It was perfect!  Guess which one?  Clue, it looks great with the clock.
Added feature....it was a Bargain Lover's Huge Bargain!!!

MC is going to paint the old gold rods he made (that started out white) black and we picked up black rings with hooks.
He will do his IRON ON TAPE magic!  This will be fun!  It really looks great in this room!

One other project is for the smaller wall opposite the window wall.

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Don't you love MC's TV.  You can tell he's not into sports!  He actually uses his computer monitor more !
Told you he was "DIFFERENT".  Just give him a good book!

What we are planning here is something I've not approached before.  I am going to  use  some of the family pictures that were on the IKEA units that were behind his desk.  We bought six 11 x 14 black frames and two 8 x 10 black frames.  We will use matting and center 8 x 10 pictures in the six large frames and smaller pictures in the two 8 x 10 frames.
Best part....got these frames at the Dollar Store.....total $8

This is my starting point....Get the idea?  The TV will sit below the two pictures in the center.

I love this chest.  It's the one we bought in Senoia a few years ago.  Never dreamed it would end up here!

So, this is where we are today.

I don't think it will take too long. I'm sure it will be finished by next month.  We're having a large meeting for the 2012 Holiday Tour Of Homes.  All the "Committee Heads", Homeowners and the Homeowners that are selling their crafts in our new addition this year.  THE GIFT HOUSE!  It will be a great place for everyone to do some shopping for gifts and "secretly" for themselves!  This is the second year Steve and I have headed up the Tour.  Had a lot of assistance with another couple...That made a huge difference.  Last year our home was on the Tour.  Now, that was one of the best days we've had since we moved here.  We spent the afternoon  relating the stories of all our treasures.  The HIGHLIGHT of the show.....Erica's Christening Dress!  Our Holiday Decor was secondary!  I have tons of pictures.....will make a new post later in the year!

Wish MC Luck with his new projects.  He's resting up!!!

ERICA'S ART

After being "featured" on Beth's Blog Design Post Interiors, there has been great interest in seeing more of my Granddaughter,  Erica's, Art!
I am so proud of Erica.  She has done outstanding pieces for our homes over the last number of years.

Her first work was done for our Kitchen for a blank space we had over our counter top and lower cabinets.  Our counter tops were covered with glass tiles.  She took these tiles as her "inspiration" and incorporated a tile in each piece!

 



 




 
This is not the best of pictures, but I there is a Tile in the center of this piece....Can you find it?

Eric did another fantastic piece for that home in Norfolk.  I love this one.  She drew inspiration  from the architecture of our building.

When we moved, she did a piece that fit our new home.  We moved from our Norfolk condo to a high rise condo in Charlotte and Erica's inspiration came from the massive buildings with their height  and boldness.

We kept moving and Erica kept doing more and more.  She is fantastic and we had a ball.  I would send her a paint "chip" with our wall color and she went from there......

Our next piece was for our first home in SunCity Peachtree.  She did a beautiful interpretation of "Endless Love"  for our 50th Wedding Anniversary

We have many Asian accessories and treasures.  To celebrate this love of ours,  she did the following,

But it doesn't stop there!
For Christmas a couple of years ago, we received this gorgeous, unique GIFT!!!  It's all wrapped up in a Bow!!!

The following is so outstanding and so meaningful.  I had our family's Christening dress that went back to the late 1890's.  Every member of my extended family was Christened in this handmade dress.  It became apparent that it had reached the end of it's life.  The bodice was so delicate and deteriorating.  I left it in Erica's hands and she preserved it !  I can't thank her enough.  I have some plans with what I will put on the console it hangs over.  I thought I would try and find photo's of my personal family members that have worn this dress.  Frame the pictures and place them on top of the console under the DRESS.  This will take time and I really don't know if I will succeed......I will try!!!

 

I hope you have enjoyed seeing Erica's Art.  I am so, so proud of her.

HAPPY HAPPY PATTY........

REMEMBER LAST WEEK .......

I WAS THE LUCKY WINNER OF A GORGEOUS GLASSY BABY CANDLE!

LISA MENDE AUTHOR OF LISA MENDE DESIGN   http://lisamendedesign.blogspot.com/ had a contest for all of us that voted for her to be the 9th Spotter for High Point Style Market on Olio board!

Not only did Lisa WIN THE CONTEST........, BUT  I WON HER CONTEST!!!!

MY PRIZE

ONE OF THESE GORGEOUS GLASSY BABY CANDLES

http://www.glassybaby.com/home.aspx

THE FOLLOWING IS DIRECT FROM  LISA MENDE DESIGN BLOG


"The glassy baby votive holder was won by
Patty Day of Griffin, Georgia!!
Patty is the author of Patty's Epiphanies which is a blog
about Patty's interior design interests and retirement life with her
adorable husband MC.

If you aren't familiar with the glassy baby story please take a minute and
 read about glassy baby and it's founder Lee Rhodes !    Home page http://www.glassybaby.com/home.aspx
Story page    http://www.glassybaby.com/about/lee-rhodes.aspx 
A percentage of the sale of glassy baby goes to help cancer patients with expenses."

Lee Rhodes and Family

TODAY

 MY  GLASSY BABY ARRIVED

 

 HERE IT IS IN PLACE

THE "ELEPHANT" COLOR

IS

PERFECT
I just knew it would be !!!

 

 THANK YOU LISA....
EVERY DAY I WILL LOOK AT THIS PERFECT  GLASSY BABY AND THINK OF YOU!

I would suggest everyone go on to Glassy Baby's website and read again their story and order one for yourself and as a gift for that special person in your life!
http://www.glassybaby.com/home.aspx

"Labor" Day Weekend

First of all, to all of us who are "retired", there are no weekends.  "Holiday  Three Day  Weekend"  just means the garbage is picked up a day later and four days of mail instead of five!  Now,  that is the worst.   The US Mail, FedEx and UPS are our lifelines to the outside world!

MC has spent his Holiday Three Day Weekend working on the wall unit for his room!  I can't tell you how many times he has been to Lowes and Home Depot the last four days!  It's all part of the game!  He gets home and realizes he "forgot" a very important tool, nail or piece of wood, so back he has to go.

I have to say that the project is coming along very quickly and it's looking pretty good!

I snapped a few pictures while he wasn't looking........want to see?

He built a "base" for the lower cabinets to raise it up from the floor.

After all the base cabinets were in, he began the upper shelves.

The second upright was where I had to come in.  No picture for this reason.  I had to hold it in place while he "fastened" it to the wall and ceiling.  Not too easy!


Then the shelves began.   I had to hold up the lower one, the first one to be put in, while he secured it in place.  OOPS  he dropped it on my hand!  A little hurt there!!!  After a  little time out  the others went up!

Second side went up  a lot easier!  Leaned from the first!

Taking it all in!

ADORABLE MC

Now a little "trim" work

Just playing

 

Looks pretty good from the Foyer. 

L

A LITTLE BREAK!

he deserves it!

Some trim work left and then the doors!

TBC

Deja Vu

This probably isn't the best time to Post.  Most are on a three day weekend or traveling to one.  But maybe there are a few, who are sitting back with nothing new to read.....Maybe?

The other day I was reading my new morning "newspapers"  Those being all the posts of my new blog friends!  Let me add this is taking more and more time each day!  My reading list grows daily, like grass.
It's interfering with my Preventive Cleaning Routine!

Soooo... Tuesday morning I decided to look up a couple of new sites.  I was planning on going to the Expose' on Wednesday and decided I'd "read up" on the Panel.  I know Sherry, but I didn't know that much about Lisa or Lori.

I found out that Lisa is the Atlanta Editor for Better Homes and Gardens and Traditional Homes.  She was so gracious when she saw my name tag.  She said, "Patty, I know you, you did the piece on Melanie". 
Amazing!  That can make your day!


I read that Lori has a wonderful,  successful design business, she even WON a HGTV Design War!
Her post on Tuesday was about cleaning up clutter and accessories.  That is something I am passionate about and I was really enjoying this post.  About half way down, she had a photo of a room, from another Designer, that hit me in the face.  I couldn't believe what I saw!  There was a to die for console table with gold accessories.  BUT THOSE ACCESSORIES...........OMG...Were my eyes seeing things????
There on the Blog was a picture with OUR THREE DANCING ASIAN GIRLS! Only they were gold and ours were a brass green..

Back in our previous life, when MC was an USAF Navigator he flew all over Asia.  It was during the Sixties...as in  the 1960's!   I know most of you weren't even born!  The "Wives" were left at home while our Fly Boys traveled the world.  Jealous, are you kidding??   We were left to  care for screaming babies, diapers and many, many trips to the Base Hospital with "emergencies" from high fevers to cuts and gashes!!!  It was the  period of my life that created the "Control Freak" I am today!

In return for our "Suffering" back home we gave our husbands LISTS of items that they were to bring back.  Depending on the Country they flew into they had items they dare not come home,    without!  We had Lists for each Country!  Needless to say that not only did most of us live in Base Housing....each exactly generically identical, but we also all had the SAME decor, (well-- stuff)!. Our lists were all the same!  If a husband found something new and different, it didn't take long before it was added to our lists!

Most of these treasures today are scattered among our children.....the irony of this..our youngest son Steve, has many pieces,...pillow table, Asian folding screen and a brass tray on legs,(our coffee table for many years), just to name a few.  He also has our ORIGINAL green elephants.  The irony.....he's living in Seoul, Korea and his company crated all these things BACK TO ASIA!

OK I rambled a little.....
Here's the Pictures that hit me!

Designed by Tobi Fairley

NOW LOOK DOWN AT THE PICTURE BELOW.....look at the top left shelf!!!!

 
 There they are!!!!!

While we're here I want to BRAG!!!!

The wall unit......THAT IS THE FIRST PIECE MC EVER MADE!!!!   

circa 1969

Also you can see my wonderful "design" bookshelf displaying in it's early stages.  This picture is priceless.  Look at the furnishings ....  orange shag rug, Danish Chair....Oh that lamp was from Japan. That is long, long gone!   There are no words to add.