What Shall I Be?

When I was growing up I had a board game called * "What Shall I Be?" ; designed for girls with choices you'd expect; nurse, teacher, etc. There was one that I always would pick but never ever did --- "actress". But the music lessons, choir, sewing lessons certainly shaped the things I do & enjoy today, as well as those jobs that I've had & "retired" from.

I've retired my aerobic shoes and microphone, the personal trainer clipboard...retired are the church organ & piano offertory, wedding & hymn books...

Some days now it's my ladder, a paint brush & faux finishing tools. Other days, garden gloves, a shovel & pruners. Often it's the sewing machine calling my name, something for my etsy shop. I need to spend MORE time working on new recipes, maybe a cookbook. For now, I hope you enjoy my shop, this blog & my other recipes!

PS...don't miss my daughter Sara's wedding pictures & blog!

*Object of the game is to the first player to become a Career Girl.
Players move around the board collecting School Cards, Subject Cards and Personality Cards.

Game ends when one of the players has collected 4 School Cards of one Profession and 2 Subject Cards and 2 Personality Cards that are good for that Profession.

Professions and their respective schools are:
College - Teacher

Airline Training School - Airline Hostess

Drama School - Actress

Nursing School - Nurse

Charm School - Model

Ballet School - Ballet Dancer

(No doctors, lawyers, designers....certainly not Vice President or President!)

So You Think You Can Paint!?! Part 4

Trying to get some other angles & shots to show the effect & an idea of the size!

Above is a shot of the main, front area, stage, rock wall. Below is the same area from further back.

Side wall...to the right you can see Kim's grandmother's Kentucky farm house shown up close on the last post.
This scene is on the opposite side wall between 2 outside windows. A path through a stand of trees with a deer crossing. Below is the same wall but to the left, a large lake scene.

Back to the front....

Formally Yours

A work in progress, now wrapping up, I've been working on some decorative painting projects at this BRIDAL shop in the Atlanta/Lilburn, Georgia area. Brides, bridesmaids, mothers of the bride will all find this a fun place to shop for your dresses.

Yesterday I painted the numbers to this VERY LARGE wall clock. The outside diameter is 41"...no mistaking the time here...tick-tick'n away!

Store policies concerning alterations & returns are no longer on a printed sign but handpainted on the wall behind the front desk. this was work I did in late 2007.


Above the mirrors is a quote that has become the store's motto,

"Creating a lifetime of elegant beauty"! Again, work done in 2007 after I'd painted beige walls with the blue & green.

More pics and info tomorrow....