IT USED TO LOOK LIKE A COFFIN ..changing the look!!!.... YAY for FRIDAY!!!!!

WOOT! the week just sped on by ... and here I was busy as all getup working on that coffin-looking structure that was discovered in the basement of our new over 100 years old homestead .... 

I am soooooo ready for Friday ... with health, energy, mobility and drive to spare I am tackling a million and one chores and other activities over the awesome weather weekend coming up and I plan to enjoy them all .... but today... today is FRIDAY!!!! YAYYYYYYYYYYY.....

I can't wait to get home to finish working on this awesome old as heck cistern that scared the daylights out of me when we uncovered it in our huge unfinished basement in our 3 stories homestead close to the water just for the 4 of us .... I am loving it ... that we are doing-it-ourselves ... mostly that is .... and before the drop ceiling and the flooring is placed I am just changing around the look of that which I want to keep .... 

Ye old cistern .....errrrrrr "concrete coffin looking thing" according to my description ... looked like this ... I had to ask my friends WTH is this thing??? an old cistern turned out to be ....  so I decided to change the look of it ... the bricks behind it are next in line....

and I am just getting started ... with my roughest draft looking like this and I am keeping my blue hues and hummingbirds theme down there .... when I am done I am taking wicker furniture that I have and painting it blue from white and making light blue cushions for them with embroidered hummingbirds that I will sew on my awesome project runway brother sewing machine... and my machine will do the embroidery too ... and what is much more fun yet I can download the picture I want to embroider and just program my machine to do it ... I don't even have to use a foot pedal ... with just the press of a button this baby SEWS!!! I love it...

I love love love changing looks ... I am going to paint the base in a wicker pattern in blue ... I am rolling the idea given to me by my friend Mary in my head .... I just have to get it out the way I see it from had to paint brush.... 

This is my totally unfinished no longer 'coffin-looking' cistern .... when I am done I am going to make a lamp like base with an led bulb and shade to put over that pipe sticking out of it where it served as an old water reservoir over 100 years ago ...

and I am going to paint my wicker white furniture that I bought from my old patio from where we moved and paint it like this picture I found on google...

So today I am so feeling YAY FOR FRIDAY!!!!! my fingers are itching to get started .... then I will be finishing up the curtains and spreads I am sewing for the third floor where my daughter will be residing .... I will also finish up the master bedroom on the second floor where I will be moving up to ... and ... and... and...there is sooooooooooooo much to do .... I NEED MORE THAN 24 HOURS ..... Monday comes wayyyyyyyyyyyy tooo soon!!!

I am rocking my workday Friday with awesome plans to work on my projects .... Having lost and kept off 203 pounds have afforded me energy... mobility and health .... ohhhhhhhhh my I can just keep going and going....

This is my Friday ... today... 6 years and 2 months post RNY ... maintaining happily for life...

an awesome morning coffee .... YUM

it really hit the spot...

Yesterday I sipped an awesome few ounces of Soy milk on break...  ...

and the day before break time found me enjoying awesome Wasabi Peas YUM YUM YUM....

Life is awesome in moderation .... and I am rocking my journey .... Yesterday and Today and I am making it last For-EVER!

I love my journey and I am enjoying every bit of it .... I am taking the good the bad and the ugly and making an awesome collage of experiences to live/learn from .... I cherish my happy memories ... and I am making lemonade and virgin margaritas with the odd lemons life occasionally throws my way .... I have captured it all in my empowerment journal 'A Picture A Day Keeps the Pounds and the Inches Away' .... I am embracing JOY and making it happen to me EVERY DAY .... my cir****tances with not dictate my destiny ... 

Thanks for allowing me to share SNIPPETS OF MY JOURNEY ... on my walk away from morbid obesity one day at a time.. one choice at a time....

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY IT'S FRIDAY .... HAVE A HAPPY DAY EVERYONE!!!! WHEREVER I AM IN LIFE OR ON THE JOURNEY I AM JUST GOING TO ROCK IT! MY FIRST MIRACLE HAPPENED TODAY ... I AM ALIVE!!!! AND WELL... FOR THAT ALONE I AM HAPPY!

You look cute as always, where did you get the jeans boots, they are great!!!  I have on boots and leggings today also, although not sure why since it is going to rain cats and dogs today.  I can't wait to see the finished basement, I am sure it is going to look great!  Enjoy your fun.  I think its cute you had to get a whole new "old" house to paint. 

LOL ... it is one of those awesome solid older houses close to the beach ... it is three floors with 3 full sized apartments but zoned as a 2 family house .. .it is awesome and is in mint condition ... it is all finished except the basement is all concrete and wooden beams with awesome storage and work tables/areas as well as washer and dryer hookup and the oil tanks but  you know me ... I WANT  a finished basement LOL and I will have one too.... SOON ....

I am kind of a bit overwhelmed with this ... the house is huge and it is us ... it was an interim choice between moving back home and having a homestead here ... and we all fell in love with it ... I have not done much except spend a bunch of elbow grease ... the mechanics of the house are awesome ... the furnaces are less than a couple years old ... we filled our oil tanks once only all winter and have been soooooooo warm ... of course my adult children live with me ... DD is a work-a-holic like and and DS is artsy fartsy and moody ... I have a picture story that I started a month or so ago ... we moved in right before Xmas last year and in 3 months it seems I have not done much ... YIKEs....

This is what we have so far...  I just dumped a whole bunch of pictures I took in March to share my progress with my friend Mary and Diana and Susan  .. it was when I ASKED my husband to sand the cabinets on the 1st floor kitchen so I could use milk paint/stain and acrylic clear gloss like I did the ones over the stove and HE TOOK OVEN CLEANER AND SPRAYED AND RUINED THEM ...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ... I have since sanded and fixed them myself.... the pics were taken of the third floor before I got on hand and knees and scrubbed and polished them the old fashioned way ..... I AM HAVING FUN WITH THIS ... lol ...

Ahhhhhhhhhh my boots ... did I tell you my DD loves getting me crap she finds online and then DARE me???? LOL ... I think these were one of those multiple occasions ... OR she gets herself something that she does not like and 'pretends' she bought me a gift LOL ... I love that gal...

oops this is the link to that picture story about the house and where we are at 3 months in it .... I have not even put a dent in it ... http://s259.photobucket.com/user/martitalinda/story/16477

It doesn't look like a coffin now--it looks like a work of art! Beautiful! As usual thanks for sharing. Have a great weekend!

Have a great weekend yourself my beautiful sista!!!! wrapping it up... I can't wait to get home and slip into my work gear (errrr old painted up clothes LOL) .... I have a couple ideas stuck in my head .... PLUS I decided to bring my small kitchen set that we don't use from the first floor up to the third floor before my dogs chew its usefulness away LOL ... so I want to do that first before I get my hands all messed up with paint....