Our New Business

As you may or may not know my sister and I are in the beginnings of launching a new business. We are producing a product called EZ comfort wraps and they are used on the arms of metal outdoor furniture in the summer when the arms get uncomfortably hot from the sun.

I personally use them on my porch furniture that is well over 15 years old because the arms look like this...ugh

 

And they look better like this...ahh

 

Don't you agree ? We are selling them over at ETSY.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/lakechamplaindesign

I am investigating other places to sell them. I'll keep you posted !

Chris

Can you tell I am on vacation ?? I finished my orb candle holder.  I started with embroidery hoops and stained them brown (with watered down brown paint) then I glued them together.

There it sat for about a month......

But yesterday I decided to finish it up ! I went to Home Depot and got a RustOleum bronze spray paint...it comes out having a hammered finish ( I plan to paint my outdoor lights with it since they are brass "pitted" and ugly- but that's another project).

I sprayed a dill pickle jar's metal lid front, back and sides.

This morning I super glued the lid onto the orb and put the candle in it (flame less)...my husband saw it and said don't burn the house down !

I had a beautiful old bracket that I had gotten at a tag sale and painted it white...I don't love that rusted look. Nailed the bracket up and hung the orb....I love it.

This summer I will put the timer on the candle and enjoy it in the evening as well !

My prayers to all those in Boston that suffered such loss !

Chris

Help !! I lost my Pinterest Account and I can't get it back

Something happened to my Pinterest  account. I went to log in and they would not accept my email address and or password.

 Now a few weeks ago my email (that I have for a million years ) got hacked and I was offering Russian dates to people...so I thought I changed everything that mattered to the new email address-including Pinterest. Well...maybe I didn't. When I tried to fix it they emailed a change of password to my old non working email address- ugh ! So I have a new board (hopefully temporary). To make matters worse I hate how they do it now....and I spelled Chris -Chri...so that is my name on this new empty Pinterest account. I have emailed them about the problem...they said it would take two weeks or so for someone to get back to me...really ??

 

Thought I would add this quote today....I am going to go out and smile !!

I recently went up to one of my favorite places in the whole world... Burlington, Vt. I love it not just because of Church Street and Lake Champlain...but some of my favorite people live there.

One of which is my daughter...and my other daughter.

My sister, brother- in- law and niece live there as well...so you can see my attraction.

While I was up there I brought my daughter a house warming gift (okay they have been there a year but I am the Mom)
I made it by putting on repostitional vinyl letters on a white canvas. Painting over the letters then removing the letters. You have to touch up the lettering but it is an easy way to make subway art.

 

See the Orb in the front of the picture ? My project this week. I am going to add a metal holder and put a flameless candle in it. I am going to hang it from a bracket on my porch...and look at it from the inside until it gets warmer !!

Our New LIne of Comfort Wraps

My sister lives in Vermont...not the hottest state in the union !  None the less in the summer the arms on her chairs and chaise by her pool get really hot...I mean uncomfortably hot. Thus started the EZ Comfort Wraps. Simply wrap the material around the arm of the outdoor furniture and wrap the elastic around the arm and "button" it. Just like that  cool and comfortable !

 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/fairtradevt

They come in blue , taupe and white.

They are available at our ETSY store . 
Love it if you stop by and take a look !

Chris

My new carpet

For years we had a little Westie named Mackenzie ...cute as a button. As she got older she started wetting in the house...finally I had to crate her when we were out. Anyway she was particularly tough on our bedroom carpet. She died a while ago so finally we decided to rip up the old wall to wall carpet.


I decided to do carpet tiles so I could pull one up if it  needed  to be replaced, you know just in case. (We still have a 14 year old cat and a 10 year old lab) It was easy to do. I opted for the carpet tiles at Home Depot. I looked at Flor but it was so expensive... here are some pics.

The top picture is the finished room, with Bailey checking it out. The second picture is the floor when I first started with the old carpet pulled up. They say to snap chalk lines and start in the middle but we wanted to just push the bed over to one side and... well you get the picture make it easy on ourselves. It's clean and done...well except for the closet !

Chris

I turned 60

It was a hard age to turn...60  !

Not because I feel old, I don't...but other people think your old. That's how I use to look at 60...in my 30's and 40's.

Now that it has happened to me I gotta say I am getting use to it.

'Cause people tell you you don't look 60....I am not sure what that means...but I am. I intend to live the next 30 (or whatever I have left) with gusto !

And this is the beginning of blogging again. Because I love to read other peoples blogs. When I tell someone I read it on a blog -they say "a what?"

 I still don't understand why I am explaining what blogs are next time I'll just tell them to look mine up ! Chris