Keeping busy while Hubby is Away...

How is the weather your way?
We have been having high winds with LOTS of rain. Mind you the temperatures have still been mild. Really lucky...

Hubby had to leave over the weekend for a business trip and will only be arriving very late tonight. Since he has been gone I have been keeping myself busy trying to finish up the little things in and for Tabitha's room. Also DH started a breakfast nook a few weeks back and we left it at that. So I also decided to work on that today since yesterday I finished what I could in Tabitha's room.

We are very limited on space so I had to do my painting and staining in the kitchen since it was raining. This is a quilt rack that DH made many years back. I painted it a light purple, I know it looks pink but it is not. Tabitha wanted me to give it that old look so I sanded it and stained it. It turned out wonderful.
This is her night stand...a old table that my parents gave me again many years back. I also painted, sanded and stained it to match the quilt rack. I love it!
Purple, Pink and Lime Green goes so well together...
Here her room is starting to look like a room again. The painting is all done and the butterflies to. Even though you can not see them from the picture, they are there with their little lines to look like they are flying. It was a long project but I have completed them. Her carpet got laid last Friday and the people did a wonderful job. You can not even see the seam. The chair slip cover and quilt at the foot of the bed I made a few years back for Tabitha. When I first began sewing.

Mike still has to put baseboards, crown and her closet doors. He said he will work some more on it on Wednesday, his day off work. Tabitha is so excited!!! She LOVES her room so MUCH!
Here is the quilt rack all displayed. Everything looks all so good together. This quilt here was made by Tabitha herself. What do you think??? She did a great job! I have a little sewer on my hands :) The little painting on top was also made by Tabitha when she was 3. I bought the canvas at the dollarstore and gave her colors that were in her room and let her go at it. You can't ask for a better piece of art to be displayed in their rooms. She still treasures it today.
Once I got the girls off to school this morning I started the breakfast nook. I had to sand it a bit and then put enough coats of varnish so it will be protected from the spills. It's looking great...
We also purchased chairs a few months back to use at the nook. I got them at wholesale and they were what I wanted. But they came unfinished, that is why they were so cheap. I decided to paint them black to give that off set from the color of the cupboards and nook. This is what they looked like before I started...
And this is what they look like painted...

Now I have to let them dry and once they are dried, I will sand them and give them a coat of stain to give them that worn look.

Well I must go back to work...but of course I will check out a couple of blogs...hehe
I would really like to finish the chairs before hubby comes home. Surprise him...
I hope he makes it home tonight because I guess it is storming really bad at the bottom of the province. He is in PEI and has to cross that so very large bridge and when the weather is really bad they close down the bridge between the provinces. It is already a 7 hour drive so it could take longer. But he promised to call me once he got out of meetings. I miss not having him around and the girls to.

So until next time ladies...

Sandy