BEFORE & AFTER PAINTED ARMOIRE

I couldn't budge this even 2 inches to get a decent photo................but here she is finished
( shadows and all )
My Son and SIL brought it in - I painted it exactly where they put it - and they took it back
( and brought 2 more pieces to be done while they were at it )

The family I painted these pieces for wanted to refresh their daughters former bedrooms - so that the grandchildren could sleep in the same rooms when visiting - with the same furniture as their Mom's had - just updated a little !

I distressed all of the molding to make it look like an old country armoire

and now on to the dresser and end table :)

Life is usually crazy busy around here - but between trying to get ahead with house reno's and outdoor work and furniture - well -  these last few weeks have been a little more so - sorry for posting and running but here's me signing off rather abruptly because I have a line I have to cross

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and it feels about a million miles away :)
Have a wonderful day everyone !
Much love,


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Good morning everyone !

PINTEREST

We had a house once - in the middle of the city ( 2 houses ago - before I was blogging ) where we had a very tiny garden..............

To add impact to it I surrounded the perimeters of the fence with climbing roses 

I think the garden was the hardest thing to leave when we sold and moved on to the next one.  ( which had no garden basically ) just a tiny courtyard that was mostly shaded................so the dream of recreating those rose covered fences was put to rest.

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But now we have the biggest garden we've ever had................with lots of fences 

PINTEREST

and so yesterday we picked up these

2 big pots of them..............and John had to restrain me because I would have bought 10 of them 

except I'd already gone a little crazy with other things

like 10 hanging pots ( here's a few of them ) 

a few bagged plants 

and dahlia's

some geraniums

and tons of other beautiful flowers...................

John says - Once again - over kill

Suzan says - How can you " over kill " with flowers?

John says - If anything can be over killed - you're the one to do it

But this house?

These renovations?

THAT's overkill - 

Having an oasis outside?

Somewhere to escape to?

THAT's priceless.

Did I mention we got climbing roses?

To put along this fence?  ( last summer's photo ) 

Have a wonderful day everyone

( John's golfing for Father's day - maybe I should run and get some more flowers? )

P.S. - I don't even know what kind of roses they are - this is all the tag reads !

I just know this summer will be filled with days of wine and roses.........................

Big hugs,

Me

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