This is our 2020 Christmas Card. Past cards tell about all our activities, traveling, visits from family & friends, and family news. This year there were no visitors, no traveling and all outside activities were cancelled. The big BUT in all of this is we have had lots of time for home improvement projects. If you read my past posts for the year you will see everything we have done. Currently, we have started the master bath project. New counter tops, sinks and faucets will be installed soon. Roger has painted the walls and as soon as counter tops are done he will tile the floor and wall. That should take us to the end of the year. In January we will do the master bedroom.
From the time we bought our first house in 1960 we have had a ton of fun renovating each home we have lived in. Back then we had no HGTV to give us inspiration. I think my inspiration came from my mother who was way ahead of her time with the interior design projects she worked on while I was growing up. She had no formal training but was a natural when it came to visualizing how to renovate a place. When I was 7 my parents bought a dilapidated old house and converted it into apartments. My mom did the interior design and my dad did the work. The apartments were open concept long before anyone knew what that meant. When her friends saw what she did they asked her to help with their homes and one of the first things she did was knock down walls. I grew up seeing this done so when we bought our first house I told Roger to imagine how good things would look if we knocked down a wall to open things up. He had never done any construction work before but said he would give it a try. He was a fast learner and by the time we moved out of that house he built a large addition on the back of the house and had mastered many construction skills. The rest is history. We have enjoyed renovating each and every place where we have lived for the past 60 years!
In my last post I mentioned my next project would be a small 2 door cabinet. Here is a before photo.
I had fun painting this. The bird pattern is from a get-well card that Roger's cousin Mickey received. He said he would like me to do a painting based on the card. This was shortly before we moved to NC and sadly he passed away before I had time to paint it. About a year later, his wife Carol asked if I would do the painting for her in memory of Mickey. After I finished the first one I did 2 more based on that design. The cabinet above is the forth time I used the same idea. Here are photos of the 3 canvas paintings I did based on Mickey's card.
