IT NO LONGER LOOKS LIKE A COFFIN ... changing looks ... LET'S HEAR IT FOR...

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!

That's really cool!  I love doing that sort of stuff!  Thanks for sharing your work.. how awesome

Thanks! .. I am going to try to work something similar but more asymmetric to this pattern with my paintbrush using hues of ultramarine blue lightened in some areas with titanium white and phthalo blue and black on the base ... I hope it works otherwise I will gesso it out and try again ... but then if I decide to cover the top with a cushion IF we can get that pipe off without having to pay an arm and a leg then I want hummingbirds on the base ... 

oh I LOVE it! Your painting is so beautiful! I recently painted an old trunk, but mine looks primitive (because I have no talent LOL) And I painted and distressed my bedroom furniture as well. I love projects like that!  

I also just have to say, it still WOW's me to see how beautiful you are. You have done so well at this RNY thing!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!!! .... there is no primitive look and no such thing as no talent ... especially with painting ... that is why I LOVE IT!!!

I love that trunk and I love love LOVE the way you set it up .... ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! 

Gorgeous, as always, and so talented!

Thank you Lynn .... take a look at Ms. Calla's awesome trunk that she painted in her response to me above ... I LOVE IT TOO ... did you see it?