toile, toile, as far as the eye can see.....***

kinda, sorta ***
i got a few yards in that sale, black/ivory toile.
i got a polkadot black with white dots and a stripe to go with
not as many yards as i would have liked but hey all toile goes with all toile right?
besides, i am itching to make over my 8.00 chandelier...something tells me that i had better post pictures for you guys......am i right?
it's a 5 arm, so i'll be making 5 shades for it as well. (i'll be looking for shade frames next)
i decided that the arms themselves will be cream and just the bigger areas will be toile. me and my decoupaged toile..... trimmed in the other fabrics. so.....looking at the picture the skinny arms will be cream, and all the rest of the brass will most likely be toile, unless i feel the need to break it up a bit with the other fabrics

i'll play it by ear.
for 8.00 i can't screw it up!
this way when i go to reupholster the loveseats ( and i am so going to MISS that burgundy on them, i love that color on a chesterfield)-i can use just plain unbleached canvas or drop clothes and do up the trim/pillows in a mix of these fabrics.
oh man i am so not looking forward to doing the reupholstering but i have to, it's over 30 years now, it's time.

NOW, i mean RIGHT now, i am typing this tuesday evening. we're to get 'weather' and the kitchen guys cometh tomorrow or so i was told....
i'm getting cold feet on that too.
i got the woodstove going again, since i watched the temps drop about 20 degrees from this morning to this afternoon, i also heard that the higher elevations got snow.
you folks will read this in the AM, and i reserve the right to add to it tomorrow too.
meanwhile i ate toast today....lots and lots of toast ......
which i am not allowed to eat at all
i couldn't help myself
i do occasionally have to have toast with a tiny bit of melted butter..... i like it, but it sure doesn't like me
oh and back to the weather......the sun just came out! but the wind is picking up... wonderful the sun is out in time for sunset.
in knitting progress, i am up to row 9 on damask, doesn't sound like a lot but at 297 stitches per row, it's getting there....... i am seriously liking this ella rae 117, enough to maybe go looking for another skein in earnest.
lately i have wanted to knit bright pastels, eastery pastels.......guess it really is spring fever huh?
today (which is tuesday for me remember) i ran around inside putting easter eggs all over the mantel and the front window and under the easter tree... hahahahahaha
oye even in some silk plants
i got it bad i think
i should be fine by the time the garden is actively growing.....although i  gotta tell you all, i been going out on the deck daily and counting the spinach sprouts
yup..... sad huh? (i got 5 seedlings out on the deck, see i told you i counted!)

supper tonight is pork chops, but i don't know what i am doing with them yet- i was thinking stuffed with fruit but i don't really have the time for that tonight, as i have to get the birds all in still..... maybe i should make them with mushrooms sauce? i still have a jar of my home canned concentrate (if you can and like mushrooms i recommend canning mushroom concentrate, sautee a mess of mushrooms with onions and some garlic then can with either chicken or beef broth....it makes suppers so much easier....use it as a base for soup, casseroles, gravy...what have you)