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I hope your birthday is filled with laughter and joy. And maybe Shelley will set up a birthday jigsaw puzzle for ya, LOL.

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Marian

HEY!!! Did you read my mind????!!!! <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />


I was just about to post this:

http://www.jigzone.com/mpc/view.php?D71BI52EF

Happy birthday, Leequi!! Lots of hugs today!!! :love:

Happy Birthday, Leequi! Hope you find joy and love from family and friends today and always.

Shelley, that was a beautiful puzzle. The leaf colors were wonderful. Provided some inspiration for card making, since that's what I'm working on this morning.

Thanks everyone. :love: The blue butterfly with the vibrant green background in the jigsaw puzzle is beautiful, but being the birthday girl didn't help my puzzle solving time. :rolling: The colors are appropriate, too, as I'm sort of in a blue/green period myself, with the blue for my mood but the green for renewal. We're doing some interior house painting and the dominant color in the birdhouse-themed powder room is a *dill green* (more like the herb in color than the pickle :rolleyes: ). Bet none of you have ever decorated a powder room around a birdhouse theme, have you? Painting the plain wooden birdhouses is something I've put off so far, but will be my next project.

Leequi

Happy Birthday Leequi!!!

Your powder room decor sounds wonderful. I hope you take pictures to share with us. I think creative paint in homes make them so much warmer and personal.

While never having painted one with birdhouses, I did paint a white picket fence with irises and pansies behind it for a boarder in a bathroom two houses ago. I also had one bedroom with trailing verigated English Ivy, as well as an 8'x10' mural of a beach sunset scene framed by bamboo in the living room of that house. The kitchen had a bright, primary, Mexican boarder with strings of chili peppers painted in strategic spots. It took me two years to paint these accents in that house and two weeks to paint over them when it was time to sell. Most people just don't appreciate so much diversity in their decor. LOL

Hope your birthday brings smiles to your face, if even for a moment.

Rose

Leequi, I once saw a birdhouse in a bathroom that was actually a cover for a kleenex box! (I have a decorative birdhouse hanging at the entrance to my kitchen.....)

I'm sure your powder room will look very beautiful. A couple of *Birds & Blooms* magazines, strategically placed and your guests may enter, roost, and never emerge... <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

That does sound lovely. In my house in Pocahontas Co. I had a birdhouse hanging in the corner of the bathroom and one sitting on a shelf near the toilet. Our bathroom here is done in a pond theme. We redid it last fall. I have a shower curtain with lilies in water (kind of a Monet' look to it) and the drawer pulls and knobs are shaped like dragonflies, butterflies, frogs, and salamanders. Rose, I think the paint work in your other house sounds wonderful. You might be surprised how many people like creative decorating and painting. I would like to find time to do some painting like that in our house. Maybe this summer....

ok since i don't know what most people are saying (lol sorry)

just saying happy Birthday!! :music: <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I'll be sure to share pics of my new powder room decor once I've completed painting my birdhouses. I love the sound of your creative artistry in that former house, Rose. And just because it is such a personal thing, I can see why painting over before selling was a sad, but necessary thing to do. I can also picture the beautiful Monet/pond theme in your bathroom, Lois. It sounds so appropriate, too.

After the powder room is complete we'll be moving on to the kitchen which will be painted a gold that should coordinate nicely with the transitional hint of green in the hallway. I plan to play up some of my rooster collection in the kitchen and dining room, but haven't worked out the details yet. Since there had been a leak in the kitchen ceiling, part of it will have to ripped out to get to the source of that leak before we get to the creative stages.

BTW, thanks for your birthday wishes, Joe.

Oh I remember when my husband tore out our living room ceiling. Someone along the way decided to put in a drop tiled ceiling only a few inches below the other ceiling (we still haven't figured that one out). So we tore it out first thing and put in a new ceiling before we did anything else.

But while my husband was doing that, he had a surprise fall out of the ceiling along with the insulation - a 5 foot long black snake! He said when he tore out that particular tile, he noticed something weighing the insulation down, making it sag a bit. So he put his hand up under it and it moved. Then the whole thing fell down onto the floor and he just wadded up the insulation real fast and threw it outside. Unfortunately (yeah, right) I was not home at the time. He took the snake up past the barn and released it, but we've seen black snakes mating in our eaves since then. Wonder if it's the same one that came back.

Could you imagine sleeping in insulation. I get itchy just thinking about the stuff. It must not have bothered that snake too much.