Tear down that Wall.................

Good morning everyone !

A quick view of what's been going on in my world......................

Last week I showed you this photo

now here's what the other view of that looks like

We decided to open up a wall that was previously here - to make the dining room on the opposite side of the living room

Here's the view before

It made the entry way dark - opening up the wall allows light to come through like you can't believe

There's still a ton of work to do on it ( obviously lol ) but it's on its way !!!

Meanwhile over on Hometalk - where I post my makeovers - my sideboard has created some controversy - I noticed my stats were abnormally high last night - here's why................

Thought I'd share some of the comments with you for your viewing pleasure - ( and my responses of course )

1) I must say that I totally dislike the makeover. For me, a beautiful wood piece has been ruined. Redo an old pine or plywood that doesn't have much integrity anyway, a rich dark wood deserves better. I'm just saying.....

I replied

Well you felt like you " must " say it and you did lol

Now I feel I must tell you this is a reproduction piece - it's veneer - and because it deserved better I painted it !!!

2) Amost cried when I saw what you did to a lovely piece of furniture. I agree with Ronnie Edgerton.

I replied

Really Marion? I've been crying over missing planes and mudslides where too many have perished..............Don't think I've ever wasted a tear on something someone did to a piece of furniture that wasn't mine in my life!!! Sheesh - really - it boggles the mind - you don't have to like it - but please don't CRY over it - it really isn't worth it lol


3)  sorry making perfectly good furniture look like old junk just upsets me, the before picture is something I like, the after is what we threw out on the farm 50 years ago

I replied

Good grief Bev - can you be any more blunt? I don't think this is what Hometalk was supposed to be about - LOL - you sound quite vicious ! Wish I would have been around 50 years ago - I would have snapped up everything you were throwing out LOL


4)  PLEASE STOP painting every piece of beautiful wooden furniture !! some of it you have done is georgous....but you are actually ruining the value of this piece and the origionality of it. Im just not partial to painting older pieces. it is pretty this way 

no doubt, but.....id rather see the true wood. sorrryyyy. i know to each his own. and thats what is important is if you like it.

5) I replied

Hey Sandra and Connie - I wrote a post for people like you ( naysayers of painted pieces ) You can find it here http://suzyq-vintagous.blogspot.ca/2014/03/i... 

- the thing is you won't enjoy anything I do at all - because I'm am just that - a furniture painter. And I paint for people that like painted pieces. I would NOT go to your site and dread the fact that you have a wood piece lol - I'd simply leave without saying anything at all - to each his own - at the end of the day - that's the motto I live with. I have a pretty strong character - so 

I can simply shrug it off - dig out my paint brush and paint ANOTHER piece tomorrow - but there's a comment further below where someone wants to paint their dining room set- and says she'd never post it because of naysayers - and that is just so sad to me - that she can't share her creativity.

There's TONS of them - I wrote up the post " I paint furniture " ( HERE ) a couple of weeks ago and posted it to Hometalk as well - I specifically wrote it to post on Hometalk actually to stop all of this silliness - and THAT post created a ton of controvery -  I thought it would die down............... http://www.hometalk.com/3214189/i-paint-furniture

No way Jose!!!

The saddest comment of all ( to me anyway ) was that someone told me they were going to paint their dining room set but would never post it because of all the negativity out there.

How unbelievable sad is that?

These forums are supposed to be a place where we can share our creations - 

Not a place where we're attacked - wth?

I can sleep easy at night knowing I have never left ( not once ) a negative comment on a blog  ( or any other forum )  over something someone did.................

These people act like I'm abusing children - IT'S A PIECE OF FURNITURE EVERYONE -AND A REPRODUCTION ATTHAT lol

It makes me so grateful for the wonderful followers of this blog - truly - from the bottom of my heart - GRATEFUL !!!

Have a wonderful day all 

( I'm off to quote a price on an antique dining room and bedroom set someone wants painted LMHO ) 

Much love,
Moi
xoxox

P.S - to be fair there's a lot of comments defending my actions as well -
it's quite entertaining if you want to have a look !!!
SIDEBOARD MAKEOVER
and there's far more positive comments than negative -

( I hope they don't see my post on painting floors - I think it would send some of them right over the edge LOL )

P.P.S. - 

AND this beautiful comment arrived in my mailbox after posting this - 

Hi Suzan, think about you often, dropped in on ur blog this AM. Wow, total strangers, giving negative comments, unreal Internet allows anyone to visit all sorts of sites, but as u said, don't like what u see, move on, don't go back and certainly don't leave a mean comment!!!!!! Are you finished Gillians furniture?  her mom Kathy has been away most of the winter, so haven't really been in touch. keep up your beautiful transformations, people should realize that if you didn't do what you do, landfills would be even bigger!!!!, Love and hugs, xoxox

Sign - and THAT cancels out every single negative comment - since that comes from a previous Client turned Friend !

If I was born in 1959

Does that mean I'm turning 55 this year?

I used to be so good with numbers - I could whip up what anything was going to cost including taxes - in a heart beat.  AND problem solving was fun for me - I actually enjoyed it ( my brother sent me a test once that my nephew had passed - making him almost a Savant - he declared - and I solved it in under 2 minutes )  So you see when I tell you I'm a genius it's not just empty bragging LMHO.................
(I sent him a text back saying he'd better check the source of that test btw.)

So WHY am I having such a difficult time with THIS equation?

2014
-
1959
=
___________

IT CAN'T BE 55 - can it?

No - it absolutely can't be.

I can't be turning 55 in 3 short weeks?

I'm the Mom of these little guys after all

and it doesn't matter if they've gotten a little itsy bitsy bit taller - this is how I still see them deep in my heart - and if that's how they are to me - and I had them in my early 20's then you can see how the numbers don't add up, right?

I want to pull them out of those photos - and read them Narnia all over again
I want to chase them around the house playing hide and seek
I want to make trees in the mud ( brocolli and gravy ) and Teddies on a cloud ( teddy cookies on vanilla ice cream )
I want to dance with them - and sing with them - and I want to see those eyes open as wide as possible when they discover that Rudolph left poop on the front lawn ( oreo cookies broken up )
I want to see them fresh out of their baths in their jammies watching Care Bears.
I want to hoist them up on my back at bed time and jump up and down neighing or snorting or doing whatever animal they require me to be
I want it back - because it was only yesterday after all.................

And if it was yesterday - then I'm only 29 years old -

Forget Math - I'll take History any day ( or my version of it anyway )

Ashley - Lindsay - Gordie -
No creation I can ever come up with in this life time can ever compare.......................

And the next time I complain about my body - I have to remember that this is the body that created them and I will be eternally grateful to it.

They are the three hearts on the watermarks on all my photos

p.s. most of you know I have twin girls ( ladies now I suppose - even though I'm only 29 )  - want to see a photo of twin boys that'll melt your heart away?

Oh Megan - I could stare at this photo forever !!!
OUR PINTERESTING FAMILY

Enjoy every single moment - because before you know it they'll be grown - and you'll be as confused as I am now

Have a wonderful day everyone.
Don't let it go by too fast!

Much love,