Thursday Evening...

Lots of projects in the works!

First, my little angel...I call her my little Oxford Angel because I bought her in the neatest little florist/gift shop in Oxford, Mississippi when we were visiting friends at Ole Miss, in 1983...I don't remember the name, but they had all these snow-white doves that they used for weddings (I guess they released them and then they all returned...) ~ I was impressed!

Anyway, I thought she was long over-due for a "face lift"!

As you can see in this photo from last winter, she was still in her original early 80s "peachy-terra cotta" mode...

I really didn't know what I wanted to do with her...I finally decided I was going to use my "default finish"; white spray paint... I used Valspar Satin White, and then a sanding sponge to distress her a little.

I liked this look, but she still seemed a little "stark", even with the sanding...so, I found some Plaid Mushroom/Champagne Glaze in my paint stash ... it was old, so I doubt if it's still available, but it's just a very cool, light brown...probably less concentrated than regular acrylic craft paint, but I watered it down considerably, anyway.

My youngest daughter, Katie, never did really care for the angel. For a while I used her indoors; she sat on a deep windowsill in the kitchen ~ and, I have to admit, when viewed from outside behind the translucent blinds, she did sort of look like this...

At least Katie thought so...

  

I can see it....;^)...

It was so pleasant out this evening; nice that I could just plop her down in the grass and not have to worry about the mess I was making with the glaze! At first I was just going to dab it on (and wipe it off) with a damp paper towel, but since she's really kind of a rough casting, I finally decided to use an old brush.

The consensus from "the boys" (who were working on the fish pond near me) was that I was painting her the same color again ~ (they didn't see the difference between peachy-terra cotta and mushroom)...after I had wiped her down I was told that "now she looks like she's just been dug out of the mud"...was that the look I was going for? "Yes", I told them... "Yes, it is...that's exactly the look I was after!"...whether it was or not, I was commited, now (and I still had half a can of satin white, just in case)...

Here she is so far...(the "freshly excavated look") ~ I'll let her dry over night and finish her transformation tomorrow...

While I played, the fish pond was being leveled and filled for the first time...

And, one last picture...(from the Wildflower/Weed Woman) ~ a clump of vetch that was pulled from around the rocks in the new flower garden...it seemed such a shame; it was putting on a pretty nice flower "show" of its own...so I had to get a photo before it sadly wilted...

More to come!

TGIF!

♥ ♥ ♥

Anne