Bull's Eyes and Bathrooms

First of all I had to look up "bullseye" on dict.org to find the proper spelling...and found out the word has nothing to do with targets! Very interesting stuff but not what I thought. So I tried "bull's eye" and bingo, that's right.

So anyway (I get distracted easily!) I put mine and Mom's bull's eye swap blocks together and it looks pretty cool.


Since it's a swap it's quickly apparent that we all had different definitions of 10", 8" and 6" circles. :-) But it adds to the charm. Mom and I had signed up for Vicki Tracy's QUBED workshop last month but couldn't go due to the tropical storm. Happily, we were given the DVD instead and I used that method for sewing the blocks together. The DVD is very talky and over-long but the method is simple enough and I'll use it again. Now for the border. I think it's crying out for a scrappy and colorful piano key border. Don't you?

The bathroom is done. Yippee! I have to paint a new section of baseboard and do a better job of the ceiling when I get out the heavier duty primer, but it sure looks nice even so.

HGTV would be horrified, it's old fashioned and small but it suits me just fine! No stone...granite or otherwise. Yay! And it's the biggest vanity and medicine cabinet I've ever had in my whole life! All the stuff I had perched everywhere and stuffed behind a curtain on shelves over the toilet fits nicely into the cabinets with three drawers left over! Woohoo! The sink is big and the counter level is much higher than what we had before. Wonderful. It just makes me smile every time I go in there. Well dang, look at that. One of the lights is out already! Go figure.

And even room for a few knickknacks. Gotta love it! Mom's china shepherd and shepherdess and some other stuff I just like. Somewhere I should have a box of small knickknacks I picked up as a small child at the White Elephant Sales at church and also, believe it or not, at the town dump. I hope the box hasn't gone missing. I haven't thought about it for a long time and I don't remember seeing it in the last move. Hmmmm....


Ok. Back to work. I've got sewing and household projects all shouting at me to come and work on them (including a new shower curtain!). Sheesh. Retirement is not restful!