Ghosts 9: Death By…

 

9: Death By…

Hole punch heart

More than stationary 

A series 

Of 

Neat

Round

Swiss cheese 

On brand 

Perforations 

Making 

You understand 

The trouble 

I had

With the scissors 

Ghosts 8: On Becoming A Cloud

 

8: On Becoming A Cloud

A Wisp

A Riddle 

Savory Fog

Spindles 

In offense 

To the doctors orders

Hiding all the skies

Dusken hue

China blue

Halcyon 

In perpetuity 

Limpid Pool 

That I 

Alone

Find buoyancy to keep

Hidden

Behind 

This Cloud

Ghosts 7: The Shadows Slowly Gather

 

7: The Shadows Slowly Gather

Designated 

Signal sucker

As the thoughts 

Of travel

Thru the planes

Thru the flames

On the sides 

Of the visage 

Staring back

Thru decades old specks

I will take you 

I will bring you 

To an Ivy valley 

Bitten by stone 

Trod on 

And cascading 

Emeralds abound

Allowing you privacy 

In a conical solitude 

To make up 

And dig up

A friendship 

Ado

The Feline Centinel 

Joins

As you mingle 

And promenade 

Gently 

Quietly 

Together 

As 

The Shadows 

Slowly 

Gather

Ghosts: 6: The Haunt

 

6: The Haunt

So local

The que

Not the quo

I knew

So proud 

As the 4 top

We were 

Asked 

To go

Or stop

Brunch 

Were we a group 

Or a coup

Laughably

Laughable 

As space and time 

Crept in

On this crypt

Floating 

In 

Ethereal Unconsciousness 

As a favorite 

Has 

A dish 

Served 

Cold and Collected 

How many Ghosts will be released this week?

x~Jen

A Quick Kitchen Table Primitive Makeover

Today Friends, we visit with the toilings 

That Were

The Projects That Were Started Last Week!

Like a lot of us, we have a room that is an odd size with 

maybe...

Just maybe...

Too many doors and walkways, etc...

And we struggle with its practicality and use,

&

Ability to have the size of furniture that we would prefer to have in it...

So, 

With a Semi-Functioning Adult Brain at the ready,

I Remembered that we had some old Ladder Back Chairs in the Basement!

Pictured Above is the Pintrest Inspiration that set all of this in motion!

And this inspo is the one that solidified it!

Going into the 'Ber Months with a gothic heart, how could I not, 

AND I MEAN  N O T!

I had never considered painting the rushed seats before...

Our chairs were originally purchased in the wild of the Olde Hadley Flea Market,

Which sadly is no more... moment of silence for those times of old...

I'm not crying, you are.

Okay,

We are all crying!

The song playing in the background as I write this is "Fix You" by Coldplay...

Oof...

Anyway,

The rushed seats of our chairs were not in the best condition, 

and they had been the subject of many scratchings of kitties...

so,

LET THE PAINT BE THE GLUE!!!

In our finest hour of the Fine For Now Mentality!!!

I started 

with the chair 

that I thought 

was the one in

 the worst condition...

Turns out that the Pink one there...

All along the back 

Most of the strands were completely broken!

oh noooooo...

*Here's my tip*

Get yourself a plastic putty knife

so 

That when you are plastering these types of things down

you can save your fingers by not touching the hot hot lava glue!

I knew this well enough, and it made the project of smoothing and securing

so much easier!

I kept onward!

Despite the issues with the rushing

and the Paint!

I said to Paint, "Why do you not like your topcoat? I stir you the way you like,

and still you reject your lovely top...?"

These small cans of paint were bought not long ago...

I just might change brands for all of my Satin Black needs...

But still

I kept onward!

This is just dressing it up 

in the fine way

 I wished!

kk we will keep going!

OH, this too, k thnx Pinterest!

I see you...

The Windsor chairs we have

will need a Satin Black treatment too I see...

More for me to keep my mind off things, sure, sure.

The finish of the Benches we have

Is to dictate the next step!!!

Finally taking their moment in the spotlight, 

because when we ordered them in white, they came in the darker finish with black legs...

Sometime you get what you need....

Now turning the top of the plain pine table from Ikea to match it...

You know the one, its a tiny table with the under $80 pricetag...

If we ever get around to demolishing that old pony wall in the kitchen, 

maybe we will buy a second table to tack on when more (any) people come 

for the dinners or the suppers.... IDK, 

ANYWAY,

I have never. Ever. Applied a stain to raw wood before...

Looks rustic,

I think it fits the brief.

Just don't look close...

I did not mean to say that... ;-)

Hey lookit all of the shoes...

any org tips, 

anyone... anyone...

Future me prob... LOL

Meanwhile

Back at the Pintrest...

Should our Guest Room Look Like THIS...???

Oh Goodnesses and Graces there's Inspo spinning all around me now.

Furniture Edit Coming....

To put in the Basement or to Curb Alert...

That is the Question.

Yes

Yes

Yes!!!!

Cooking up Historical-Adjacent Color Pallets!

Making a list of Behr Paints to get testers made....

Story Time!

My old Apartment was a Block away from an old Mom n Pop Paint Shop,

I used to go in and browse all of the tester pots at the front displays...

$3 bucks a pop, I would fill my arms with all sorts of hues...

I still have a couple left in the basement...

Doubt they're still good, but, if I were to be desperate enough...

I could probably add some water and stir them back into being...

oh yeah,

We came to the end of our over the stove microwave days, 

and...

Finally installed that hood vent that we bought on sale 

way back when we first moved here in '16.

A good old patchy patch job was required for the duct passage, so I got out the wee

bucket of spackle & got stuck in.

Letting that project finally come to an end, 

I guess, really sent me into full steam ahead with the thoughts of a 

"Primitive Styling" for the table and chairs...

I really want to try and give us a Faux Fireback 

type of Backsplash 

for the wall between 

the stove 

and "new" hood vent, etc...

we shall see...

And that's how it got done.

Really trying to get some fun projects done & dusted.

I've been finding it really helpful since we lost the fur loves last year.

I'm really not bouncing back as fast as I thought I would, so I am finding myself taking time to concentrate on the big projects that aren't involving social media. And they are exciting new things, things that are a hope for fullfilment on a very large scale. So, with getting into the grove on those fronts, more writing and music, and videos will be made. And of course I have this new fever for the Primitive decor to drive me into fun - which is so needed for this point of the journey. 

Luck to all, for we are searching now more than ever.

x~JM

Strategy

That's all it takes

Every Day

When you've grown

In the woods

Amongst

The most invasive plants

Strategy

Numbers

&

Scenarios

Trouble Shot

& 

Worked around

I settle like sand

Churned up 

Like the Desert of Maine

Same Plot

Twisted

By the same Crop

Its a cat 

Of nine tails 

Now

Heard 

Clocking Out

After The OverTime

Triple Time

& 

Holiday Pay

The Living to Work

Stuck the Landing

As it fulfilled 

The next round

Of Famine

For the sake 

Of Carrying it over

To feast

& 

Feed

Endlessly

Until We 

Dig

Deeper

For more

Strategy

Portal in Time

 

The Heart 

Breaks again 

Gentle glass

Slivers and shards 

I’ll sing you to sleep 

I’ll pet your silver threads

Anything to break

This spell

It’s not 

Insensitivity 

That teases you so

It’s not 

How timing 

Just won’t line up

It’s this 

Double loss

It’s this

Not being able to jump through 

This 

Portal in Time

That holds 

You fixed

In

The ability 

To rewind 

This 

Portal in Time

A gift

That will remain 

Forever lost

In the tossing and turning 

Of your 

Never Ending 

Fog

That now 

Owns you 

In the knowledge 

Of a wish

Answered 

And 

Forever 

Out of Reach

Garden Explosion!

Just a few snaps from our Garden today...

Peony 

We only have one

But

It is going crazy with blooms!

It was supposed to be 

a very productive week 

in the Garden last week...

But the Wildfire Smoke situation

 was way beyond what my system could take.

I got this done last Monday

As you can see

We are building up beds as we go

with our cardboard acting as weed block

or as it appeared to be

very fun toys 

for the baby foxes to rip up

& drag all over

and I wouldn't have it any different...

The Summer Wine Nine Bark came into its own this year

Took a few years

but

worth the wait.

Humming Bird Loving the Irises

we love them too!

Cranesbill Geranium

Has become a full shrub for us here...

and 3 others have popped up for us in not so far off spots....

Free plants 

Thank Goodness!!!

There are other regions of garden bed building here

The process is going way too slow for me

especially not being able to be out in it last week...

We have propagations of plants from cuttings that are doing well...

There are some nice bits of colorful 

vertical interest...

And

We finally got our Mailbox!

after 7yrs

installed and functional

&

Giving me more thoughts on Landscaping for 

minimal

Low maintenance

scenarios around it...

Evergreen Groundcovers anyone...???

Anyway

Life is happening at lightspeed over here...

Posts may be intermittent while a few wrinkles 

get ironed out

lots of decisions that require

full attention and time.

Wish us luck!

x~J