Replacing The Broken Glass on Our Patio Table -

We have horrible winds here.  One storm picked up our large patio table & smashed it sideways against the deck railing, shattering the glass top.

After looking at a couple of options, I bought a piece of plywood (they cut it to size for me even) and a remnant of linoleum from our local flooring store.

We should have sealed the plywood with an all weather paint first. 

Then we attached the linoleum with contact glue.  The entire project cost me about $35 and took minutes to complete. :-)

-Update-

This held up great for us, for years.  I replaced the chair cushions two more times before we gave the table away and switched to a picnic table here - and that was just because I was tired of recovering the chair cushions.

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Taufshein, printed & framed

If you are looking for Bender Genealogy, see my genealogy blog here:

http://heathersgen.blogspot.com/2014/10/bender-line-to-heather-sulouff.html

I LOVE old German Taufshein's.  Or any old german certificate.  I search through them in every musuem, praying to find one that relates to our lines. I came across this one a few years back - not the original, just a photo on an ancestry.com tree, and later in a book by Nelson Sulouff.  

So my plan, to have a copy here in my house, was to print it out, trace it, and hand paint it to replicate it.

And then this week I came to my senses.  I have little to no artistic talent, even less patience, and I own a color printer.

Yes I could have uploaded this and had it printed at Sam's club, but this cheap yellow drawing paper (one of those artists tablets you can find at the dollar store, for small children) was rather perfect.  It was too large, I cut it down to 8x10 to run through my printer.

The first time I printed this, I printed just the photo. Then I went back and added the english translation, with a title explaining that this is the Taufshein for my 5th great grandmother, Anna Nancy Bender.

This is one of those 15 minute projects that just makes me really happy.  :-)

Inspiration For Redoing Our Bedroom -

This was our room at the Linck Hill Inn, for the marriage retreat last month.  I am completely in love with this wallpaper and want to find it, or something very similar, to for our bedroom.  It can't really be seen here, but the wallpaper stops about a foot from the ceiling, at a trim.  from the trim to the ceiling it is painted the color you can see to the right.  I want to mimic this as well. 

 Another view of the room:

Peabody's Tail

Each year our peacock loses his tail.  I have a LOT of peacock feathers.  I saved one tail separate from the other feathers, so this swag is one complete peacock tail.  :-)  It looks so simple, but you would not believe how long it took me to sort those feathers and get them all pointed in the right direction!

Martha Stewart Paper Flowers - Easter Decor

These were originally from a Martha Stewart tutorial that I can no longer find.
But OhAmanda! did a step by step, using the same tutorial - 
https://ohamanda.com/2011/04/15/paper-dogwood-craft/

This was LONG before I had heard of a cricut!
Now I have a LONG list of free templates & SVGS for making paper flowers, here:

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2018/01/making-paper-flowers-with-cricut.html

Did you know a peacock loses his entire tail every fall, and grows a new one in time for spring mating season?

The eggs I made a couple of years ago - they are just wooden eggs, painted, then a design is scratched in.  I coated them in wax before scratching the paint off, it seemed to scratch better that way.  For the light colored ones, I scratched out the design, then painted the darker color on and rubbed it off.  Where the wax was left, on the off white color, the paint did not "stick", leaving me with a dark design on a light egg.

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