My Birthday

Thursday was my birthday. When I came home Wednesday evening after work this new table was setting in my kitchen/dining room. At first I wasn't exactly excited about it. I thought it was beautiful, but it was too tall & bulky for the space.
The package on top, was pretty cool. I loved the textured silk fabric wrapper.

& inside was this neat little oven, to replace my little toaster oven. Now I can put the toaster oven in my studio & use it for polymer clay.

So I got busy & completely rearranged the kitchen. That's the one advantage to having an unfinished kitchen. I can still easily change my mind. I moved all my temporary shevles to the opposite side of the room. I had been thinking I would do this anyway, the new table just made me get off my duff & do it.

I brought in a corner piece from the garage. It was from aunt Ethel's apartment. It was the perfect roost for my chickens. We also went & got a new rug to place under the table. That went a long way toward making it work for me. It needed the rug.

Now the whole kitch feels roomier & mor comfortable. Now I just have to get my oven hood built, & I can get my stove brought in, then get real cabinets & granite countertops, & it'll be done. Should anly take a few more years!

Corey came & took the large guest room set. We moved the trundle bed upstairs, & will get a stationary bike to put in here, then I think that'll be it for the guest room, other than I'd like to make quilts for the beds (once I get the longarm machine).

Extra dining room chairs will stay in here.

This is my birthday card & gift from my friend Kathy. The leaves she made from cement, pressed on to real leaves, then she painted them copper. They're beautiful. I LOVE them. She also sent some Seta Color paints to play with. That may even be something I can do when I'm off after surgery.

Our fiends Mindy & John came over with thier 3 girls. Lindsey, the oldest is home from New Mexico. Mindy & Lindsey made this georgeous plate for me.

I particularly loved the dichcroic bits. I love how they shine. Sometimes I think I must be part Raven, because I just LOVE the SPARKLIES!

We had a fun day with them, eating & visiting & watching movies, & eating more & watching more movies, & some sewing & needle felting happened too. Lindsey has been hooked by the needle felting bug now too!

I also got my hair cut short this weekend. VERY short. I'm really happy with it, but haven't bothered to take a picture yet. Warren said I need to do one & replace the one on the blog. Maybe tomorrow, in my spare time, after I've finished the zillion other things I want to get done before I have surgery 8 days from now!