Cottage Study, the Last Post, maybe.....

Today I'm going to finish showing off my study.

(Maybe)

Enough about this room already,

 there's so much more to share with you guys!!!!!

I only have the desk area to go over, and then it's across the hall to my bedroom.....

 The desk is a regency period piece that I've had forever.

I really love the legs, they're almost as good as mine...

I can't tell you the number of hours I've sat at this desk,

playing computer games working on my  blog!!!!!

I still have to make the cushion for its chair.

I think that I'll do that within the next week.

I have to get all this done because I'm finally lettingTraditional Home Magazine do scouting shots.

Estelle Bond Guralnick, the regional editor, has been after me for 8 years.

Since I was retired, I didn't see any reason....

but now!!!!!

I'm blogging!!!!!

And I want to get the word out......

So.....

I've been painting and sewing my little heart out!!!!!

I've make the den slip covers.....

painted the panels in the dining room.....

still need to sew some toss pillows, paint the dining table and make a small rod run gathered sheer curtain for my bedroom armoire.

A really good way to finish off a house, is to set a publication deadline.

It's like inviting folks for dinner,

 it forces you to clean up the #$% house!!!!!

So, this morning, I'm thinking about the paint I want to use on my dining room table.

WELL.....

I am really excited about the new milk paint coming out by 

Miss Mustard Seed.....

I don't want to wait till September!!!!!

I need to paint the table by YESTERDAY!!!!!

Amy at Maison Decor (who will be selling it in the Boston area)

said it would be alright if I contacted

 Marion of Miss Mustard Seed fame directly

 to see it I can get my hands on some of this here paint 

NOW!!!!!

This is the way the dining table looks at the present moment....

So, before I heard back from her, (Marion) I was panicking, 

so I started mixing up some Annie Sloan chalk paint,

 in case I couldn't get my paws on the milk paint..... 

I mixed a couple of colors together, looking to match the color of a small painted antique stand I have.

 Then I waxed the color on the right with dark wax....

Then I looked at my email,

and Marion had come through for me!!!!!

She is a trouper!!!!!

So, I am very flattered to be one of the first bloggers to be able to buy a color from her new line of Milk Paint!!!!

I can't wait to see how it will naturally distress on my old dining table....

I bought Lucketts Green, and will be reporting from the trenches about how I do!!!!

WAIT!!!!

I'm supposed to be writing about my study.....

OY VEY.....

I'm like a little kid that wants everyone to know everything I'm doing.....

OK, back to my desk area.

 The curtains in the room are left over from a show house I did on Cape Cod. You can read about that room here.....

The bobble trim is made up from a gimp tape, and a cheap rayon trim with white plastic balls. I had the blue gimp cover the cheap rayon.

This way, I was able to take an affordable detail,

and make it more expensive!!!!!

 I have two computers on my desk.

I couldn't get rid of my 8 year old laptop, because my favorite computer game, Civilization II, isn't compatible with Windows 7.

The funny thing, is now that I'm blogging, I don't really play games on my laptops anymore.

 Maybe it's time for just one computer.

It looks better......

More room for all my 

ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY accessories!!!!!

There's my rebuilt vintage phone,

 that looks great,

but the receiver is so heavy, that when I sit at my desk and answer it,

 I ask the person to hold on,

 while I run into my kitchen, and get my lighter cordless one.....

Let's see....

How does that saying go?????

Function follows Form?????

Here's my pencil cup!!!

It has some dogs on it!!!!!

It holds my pencils!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know anything else about this baby.....

 Here's my pen holder!!!

It has a dog on it!!!!!

It holds one pen (that I don't use)!!!!!

I don't know anything else about this baby.....

 This is a picture of my mother's brother, 

who just happens to be my Uncle!!!

The cut out of a little girl is my mom when she was a little girl!!!!! 

 This brings us to the conclusion of my study, 

please form a single line and exit in the back.

Thank you.....

Latah, Gatah