More home improvement projects, 2 sold paintings and 2 doodles

As July comes to an end things are not much different than when the quarantine began back in March.  We are in phase two so there are more businesses open. We are required to wear masks when in stores which does not bother us.  We would rather be safe than sorry.  We continue to keep busy at home with another home improvement project completed.  We  redid our tiny powder room which is just 3ft. by 6ft..  We tiled the floor and walls half way up.  There is new paint.  We replaced the light fixture, vanity and sink, mirror and toilet. Here are photos.

This first picture is of the smaller vanity we put in to replace the large bulky one that took up so much room.  This is called European style.  I changed out the knobs that came with it with ones that I bought at Hobby Lobby.  I love the sparkly bling.

Speaking of sparkly bling, the new light fixture is nothing but sparkly!  It really brightens up the room.

I got a large metal wall decoration also from Hobby Lobby.  The mirror came from there too.

The painting I hung over the toilet is one that I did a few years back in MI.  I had to change the frame from gold to silver.  A quick coat of paint took care of that.

I am including a close-up picture of the floor tile. I always wanted to use this small hexagon tile somewhere so finally got my wish.

I am so grateful that Roger has the ability to turn my dream designs into reality!  We have a few more home improvement projects that are on our to-do list.  I'm not sure when we will start the next one.

I sold two more paintings at the Owl and Rabbit Gallery since they re-opened in their new location.  The new store is really nice and much larger.  Here is what I sold.

The first one is called "Fabulous Feathers" and is 16 X 20.

The other one is "Sunflowers in Blue Vase".  It is 14 X 11.  I found out that the same customer bought both paintings.

I continue to doodle.  I have started my third sketch book since the quarantine began in March.  Here are a couple of new doodles.

I recently had 3 paintings excepted to show in the downtown Burlington Art Walk.  They will be there for a month.  I'll post photos of those at a later time.

I am not sure who reads this blog but every time I check the stats I see that people are seeing it from all over the world.  My view numbers are not huge in comparison to others in social media but I am getting close to over 100,000 hits since I first started.  I am sure some of those may be robo hits because I see that sometimes I'll have 50 at a time from Italy but most of the others are just a few at a time from the US and also other countries.  Anyway, I'm not concerned with the numbers, I just enjoy doing this for my own pleasure.  It is sort of my form of journaling.  I look back at old posts every so often and find it is a great way of keeping a record of my artistic life. 

June catch-up!

I can't believe I did not do a blog post in the month of June.  Time has a way of passing too fast.  Here are some things that went on in June.

In my last post I showed photos of our patio project but at that time we did not have our patio furniture.  Here is a photo of the finished patio with furniture.

One of the projects I did in June was to refinish this candle ring that one of my neighbors gave me.  It goes around the umbrella pole in the center of the table.  I didn't have it in the photo above.  It was copper in color when I got it and I decided I would refinish it to match the umbrella.  Here it is.

We have been taking an early morning walk every day, weather permitting.  When we come home we enjoy breakfast on our patio. Since we can't go to our exercise class because of the virus, we decided we must take a long walk every day. We walk around 2 miles in the morning then do another mile in the evening when it cools off.  On most evenings we stop and visit with a group of friends who meet in the open garage of one of the neighbors.  We keep our chairs at a social distance and enjoy each other's company. One evening they came down to our house and met on our patio.  It reminds me of the old days when I was a little girl and neighbors used to spend time together on their front porches.

The Owl and Rabbit Gallery where I have some of my paintings was able to open under Phase 2.  During the shut down they moved the gallery to a larger building in the downtown area.  I have not been there to see it in person but have seen photos and it looks great.  I sold two paintings after they reopened.  Here are the paintings that sold.

Another thing that happened in June is that our oldest son, Mark, turned 60!  We helped him celebrate his birthday with dinner here.  His wife, Leslie, made the cake. It was yummy.

I think I mentioned in previous post about Mark's woodworking talent.  He used that talent to make us gifts for Mother's Day and Father's Day.  He made this chess set as a gift to me for Mother's Day.

For Father's Day he made Roger this clock and this door letter.

I spent a lot of the month of June doodling.  Here are a few that I did.

Our current home improvement project is our powder room.  We stripped it out and have repainted and installed a new light fixture.  Roger has just started working on the floor tile. When that is done he will tile the walls half way up.  We will replace the vanity and toilet and mirror.  I'll post photos when it is done. 

That is it for now.  We are doing okay in this new way of life and are thankful that we have things to fill our time.