New Projects!

My darling friend!  How are you this morning?

I have had a wonderful nap (see earlier post :) ), and am now (almost) ready to get this party started!

I am bubbling with ideas of things I want to learn and do!  I am praying that the Lord will stop me from any foolish wastes of time, but I am not making myself nervous waiting for Him to actually slip me His schedule for my day.  :D

That being said, let's run down some of the things I am pondering and you can tell me which you like!

First of all, cheesemaking.  I would love to start making my own mozzarella cheese from time to time.  I may not become a "cheese maker" but I would love to have the skill.  I ADORE planting little seeds of capability in myself!  I might make these seeds grow, like the bread baking that, if I do say, I am fairly decent at.  Or I might sprout them but let them lay dormant (like soap making) until I need them again.  Spending a weekend trying a new skill makes it so much easier for me to take up that skill if I need it in years to come.  I think I will try a batch of cheese for instant gratification that uses vinegar instead of rennet.  In the meantime, I will order some rennet and citric acid to make mozzarella. 

Secondly, I want to redo the screened porch.  It is sort of.....brown.  Like flat brown paint with a weary off white ceiling.  I made the mistake of buying some curtains that I thought would make it look updated but actually just made it MORE dated!  The curtains are fine, but the valances are sort of scalloped and look very grandma-ish.

Now, I love grandma houses!  Don't get me wrong!  I just am not a grandma yet and am looking for something a little different. :)

My plan is to paint the supports of the screen and the ceiling bright white.  I want to paint the floor a happy, bright grey.  I am kicking around what color to paint the wicker--either white or black, I think.  Probably white.  Summers get hot here (at least that is what the rumor is...last summer was very cool! lol), so I want the screened porch airy with teal accents.  I plan to take the ruffled valances and put them at the end of the curtains as a)that will look better and b)the curtains don't reach the floor!

TWS has also offered to put us in a summer kitchen in the screened porch because my stove will not support the pots for canning!  I am designing the screen porch like a little studio apartment with an eat in "kitchen" with stove and running water.

This is where the kitchen will go......TWS can link the water and drainage right into the pipes that feed the kitchen on the other side of the wall. 

 

(that folding door is going to be painted and something nifty done with the inserts)

Do you see where the Louisiana basket is on the wall?  I am thinking about putting the daybed perpendicular to that wall.  I can't put it against one of the screen walls or people will get wet.  I like the idea of using the back side of the bed to delineate where the kitchen stops.

My other choice is to put the daybed towards the end of the room where the table and chairs are now.  I can use that as a seating area, with the bed having its back to the table and chairs which will go....

 

....a little further out from the swing.  I would like to keep the swing--it is fun :)  But we will have to see.  I might move this swing onto the front porch with the other swing that is there so everyone has a swing to sit on :)

If you go to my pinterest board (if you are interested) you can see the look I am going for.  I tried to post the pics here but that would have taken more time than I was willing to spend today--I wanted to get this posted for you :)

Here is the link to my screened porch kitchen board:  http://www.pinterest.com/atropine/screened-porch-kitchen/

It is going to have to warm up for us to do much though--it is too cold to paint.

Do you have any big ideas happening?  Any pinterest-y stuff to get trying?  Let me know! :)