Waiting, Worrying & Working…

Still no babies…She is resting comfortably right now as I continually watch her for any sign that her labor may have begun. We had an x-ray done yesterday to determine the number of pups to expect and I’m told four. She herself didn’t show up on the x-ray I had taken for her mother…then again, she was so tiny.

So I wait…

I try to keep busy. I have everything prepared and sterilized for the delivery…My oldest daughter Rachel is on standby…She is on house arrest until these babies have been delivered…She is such a big help to me during the whelping process…we move in perfect synchronization…we each know our jobs and together handle everything calmly…for some reason, Richard makes me too nervous…maybe because he himself gets nervous and I can sense that…Not with Rachel, she’s a toughie…not much gets to her.

In the meantime, I worked on something I found while scouring the local Thrift Store for some things for my “You are SO Trashy” partner…Which by the way, I got Char…the Queen of trash to treasure!! No pressure! Kidding…I’m thrilled…I just hope she doesn’t have very high expectations of me! I already know whatever she sends me I will absolutely love…She always does beautiful job on anything she touches. With me, it’s hit or miss!

Sorry, back to the Thrift Store story…so while searching there…I came across this dry sink/cupboard and I thought it had good bones.

I sent a picture to Richard from my cell asking his opinion…after about 20 minutes with no response from him I decided to buy it. I so did not need another project in the works but for $40 I figured it was a good deal and talked myself into it.

So, here is the before picture…Notice my sidekick sleeping at the foot of it? She was probably thinking “Here we go again!”  :)

I didn’t really like the scrolled woodwork on the top, so the first thing I did was cut that off. It dated it too much for me. Once that was off, I painted it in a grungy green over black and here is what it looks like now.

I’m not crazy about the hardware and will change that out eventually, but I knew it had potential.

Now, remember my last post of the barn find table & chairs? I decided to switch that shaker style table into the dining room with the other set of Windsor chairs that I recently got….as everyone else seemed to like my farm table in the kitchen area better. So, after moving them around, I realized I liked it much better too and that the chairs fit the table much better..they actually seemed to wrap perfectly around the table tops shape. Check it out.

How cool is that? I still need to get started on some floor cloths!

And here is the farm table in the kitchen eating area now with the continuous arm chairs.

What do you think? Would you believe I only got five of these chairs. Now I’m a woman on a mission to find a sixth! I can’t use the fifth in here since that would look odd, so for now it’s in the corner of my dining room…but a set of four side chairs with the two arms would look great in here…What do you think the chances are of me ever finding one chair that matches these? Zero! But I will look anyway…at flea markets, yard or garage sales, etc…

Well, it’s time to go…Wish us luck that everything goes smoothly. Thoughts and prayers would be greatly appreciated!

Sincerely,

Debra