Desk Delight….

SOLD!!!!

THIS DESK NOW BELONGS TO OUR NEIGHBORS.  THEY BOUGHT IT BEFORE IT WAS STARTED AND WERE ABLE TO CHOOSE THE COLORS. 

I did not get a before picture of this desk, but it was a dark brown.  The desk had great character and some rather unique hardware that attracted Dick to it.  He fell in LOVE with it and had a vision in mind before we left DI’s.

We have new neighbors and they found out we restored furniture and wanted something for the bedroom or bathroom for her to use as a makeup vanity.  When she seen the ugly brown color, she too had a vision and wanted the desk to serve as her vanity.  

The desk was painted sand and lightly distressed then glazed with a chocolate brown.  The hardware was spray painted oil rubbed bronze.

I am so taken with this side of the desk and the marble look that the glaze made.  I found that it is all in how it is rubbed off.  I am getting more relaxed with the glazing part.

My New Friends UPDATE

UPDATE……

My birds have been named!!!!

Since Gramps named the dog MUTT HEAD, EVAN TOLD HIM SHE GOT TO NAME THE BIRDS!!!!

THEY ARE RIO (yellow) and JEWEL (blue/white). 

There was no discussion on her part and when Gramps called them Louey and Bluey, she was very put out with his STUPID names.

I have been wanting to get me some parakeets for a very long time.  When we lived in St. George many years ago, we had two of them.  One was a green parakeet and the other one was blue.  Brook named them Trixie and Dixie.  How she loved those birds and they in turn loved her dearly.  She would play for hours with them.  During our years in Denver, we also had parakeets, but when we left to move to Nevada our bishop’s family took our three birds.

I did have Buddy, the cockatiel, for a few years but he went to a home that could give him tons of attention.  After Nolan and Kelson moved to Denver, he was to lonely to be kept in a home where his days were spent alone.

I found these two beauties last night from KSL and the seller lived just three blocks from us.  They are hand raised and only two months old.  They are getting used to their new surroundings today and have been so fun to listen to.  I am so glad to have these two additions to my life and know that they will bring me hours of enjoyment in the years to come.

They have not been named yet as we are not sure it they are boys or girls.  That will take another two or three months.   One name for the blue one that I am partial to is Callie and the yellow one is Hannah.  I have even tried Hannah and Savannah since they are siblings.   Any ways, right now I am waiting for my two yea hoo’s to come and see them.  Maybe they will have some good names to pick from.

If you have good names for my pets, let me know soon.

Don’t Mess With The Kid….

With a swollen eye that would not open and a pretty smile on her face, this kid was headed to the doctor. 

It was decided that she has an infection in the eye, so is now on an antibiotic, eye drops and and an allergy med.

Get better fast, Miss Evie!!!

35th Wedding Anniversary…

Thirty five years ago today I married my best friend.  There have been a lot of adventures along the way and the road has been paved with gold.

We are never apart and spend all our hours of the day together.  You rarely see one without the other and when we are separated for very long, it feels like hours.  I am so glad that my sweetheart chose me to become his bride those many years ago.  He has made the journey a pleasure. 

Never did we associate September 11th as anything other than our special day.  On our 25th anniversary it became a very important day and now we refer to it as “our 9 11 day”.  No one can ever forget this special day, for it is a day of great importance not only to us, but to the entire nation.  We never have an anniversary without thinking of all those that lost their lives on that fateful day in 2001 as our nation was being terrorized and attacked.

We are looking forward to many more years together and making memories along the way.  Thanks to all our family and friends that have been extremely important along the way.  We love you all.

Ivory Desk…

SOLD!!!!

This desk now has a new home in Logan, UT

This is one of our finds in our treasure hunting a few weeks ago.  The desk had a broken drawer, but other than that it was in great shape.  Dick repaired it, sanded it down then…..

 

…painted the desk ivory and the pulls a glossy black.

The desk has seven drawers with the two bottom drawers deep for hanging files.

  WOW!!! this desk would make an added addition to your study or child’s room.

Quick Update

It has been a wild month of August around the Madsen home.  We had Roy Days, Cache Co. Fair and Davis Co. Fair the first three week and was bushed after the last event.  It was a wild and crazy three weeks.

School has started for the grandchildren and one has a broken wrist, one had surgery, the others are okay. 

Derek and Kelly took the kids to Snowbird before school started and it proved to be a rough weekend.  Kelly and Canyon were going down the Alpine Slide together and wrecked causing major burns to both of them. 

  

This is when Canyon broke his left wrist but it was not discovered for two weeks later.  Little Tike just has such a high pain tolerance that no one knew he had broken his wrist clean through. A cast was put on a couple of days after school started for him.   Kelly got infection and had to be on an antibiotic and a topical cream.

Cody got sick just after he started school and ended up in the hospital for a appendectomy.  He is out of football, which is the biggest sin of all for him.  Oh Well!! at least they have a hospital real close to their house and it seems like the doctor was excellent.

Dick got an infected toe during Davis Co. Fair and had to go to the doctor.  He is on an antibiotic and is waiting to get into the VA Hospital to be seen by the podiatrist.  They did blood work and he is a diabetic with his A1C at 8.2.  It did come down from 8.6 on the last test.  I just wish that he would admit to having it and not blaming the doctor for his bad readings.  How can the doctor make his glucose reading high?  It is a mystery to me.

We had our toilet fiasco and then I have been canning like crazy trying to get the winter supply taken care of.  So far I have done apricots, tomatoes, raspberry jam, corn and am finishing the raisins.  I have been so lucky that all this came into my possession on my two weeks break.  After Peach Days, then I will have peaches and apples to do.  Canning sure is my passion.

We even had the time to go to watch Canyon play in his football game.  He is so fun to watch and here he is with his favorite coach, his Dad.

It was a good month and now we are getting ready for our last event of the year, Peach Days.  Oh how I love this event.  It is so fun to be in your home town.