i think we're going to be busy this weekend

since i was so out of commission this week, and didn't do pens.....i think bernie is going to help me a bit over the weekend.

i am feeling better as long as i don't overdo anything

not too much typing

or drawing or knitting or lifting etc

ok

now i got to show you..........first a new violet i got last weekend. isn't she pretty? her leaves are super glossy too, i don't know if they are glossy from a polish or is this variety like that (some are) of course due to the amount of light in that corner she may get a bit hairier to shade herself, some of the older ones are laying their leaves WAY down ---ok so i need a curtain or something for them- i AM looking for a sheer tier for those windows--- but maybe i should rethink that as well? maybe a tiny folding screen? with sheer parchment paper that is pricked with a pin into a design? or maybe bridal veiling..... sort of hung with all sorts of fabric leaves on it? or even calico yoyo's here and there
just something to filter the harshest of the afternoon sun?

or maybe another house plant? could be.... but everything is outside for the summer so they'll have to wait. now the second thing is this - a couple of baby violets. i put down a leaf. i do that sort of out of habit, every time i get a new violet i put down a leaf....OR if a leaf breaks off i put it down too. most often they grow for me. my mom used to get violet leaves and make me put them down all the time, as she used to say if she did it, they would rot but if i did it, they would grow. so there is a baby violet. actually that one pot has about 4 baby violets all crunched together.

i also got a sewing box today in the mail. it's an old expandable one that i am using for paints...... it will hold a LOT of watercolor paints, and i think a TON of dry pigments not to mention the binders etc (which are almost all powers, except for maybe oil or acrylic paints-eggs are held onto by the chickens)  i have a smaller one coming as well. i like the light wood and the tiny feet on this. -when i was in art school i used fishing tackle boxes to hold supplies for class, this is sort of the same idea only wooden. i would love a wooden machinist box too........ and old map files. (btw, that is the seller's photo, not mine.......my sofa's are burgundy chesterfields....with buttons all over them)
the mail also brought me some depression glass plates and some mugs that may or may not be depression glass but are very pretty ( they are kind of thick so may not be true depression glass but i didn't pay a lot)  i did get to town today, picked up studio magazine and a primitive magazine.
i don't do primitive but i really like primitive stuff.... go figure
i have TRIED to do it but it all ends up like you folks have seen...... a far cry from prim.
i can't change it so i do my own thing

now i am still with the wall dilemma, i was thinking of doing milk paint thanks to garilynn's dh's blog...
cause it shouldn't bother the budgies....... (hey two more weeks and the easter budgies are out of quarantine-then we slowly get them closer to the no more baby budgies*** eventually they all share a cage....and we get two boys)
then i was thinking of starching fabric (unbleached muslin) on the walls.....maybe with some toile.... and some checks and ticking stripes.

hey i need some help brainstorming here cause you all know i don't have much of a brain at the moment....
i hate the darkness of the walls in the studio and i have always HATED the dark wood. it's lighter then the rest of the paneling that was in the house but it's still way too dark for me
if it was a very light almost white pine i would be ok- but it's a medium brown tone-- YUCK .........
double YUCK  i don't actually want a white, more like a sort of cream, and actually if i can rub those walls with an opague-ish buff-ish sort of color over the wood i would be fine with that ** maybe pigmented wax?**
anyway that corner is coming together

sort of........ ok not really but i can work there and i am liking it

anyway please don't mind me rambling away....this is what i am thinking of and any help or suggestions would be a wonderful thing
????

have a good weekend everyone