My Life in Charts

Painting complete

Completed the cactus painting.
I think the words add some fun to it.

Recycled - Twice

My mom had taken bolt ends of fabric and turned it into a quilt top.
I then took the quilt top - cut it in half, lined it, and made curtains for my oldest son's room.

BEFORE














AFTER

Tornado Painting Done

I have finally finished the Tornado painting.
The coolest part about the painting is that it fits right about my toilet in the master bathroom.

How cool is that - every time you flush - you see the tornado represented two places!

Bar / Lounge Curtians

It all started when I told my Mom that I needed some crazy velvet curtains for my new formal living room. I told her that I have this awesome bar for the room and a leather wing back recliner and a huge antique cowhide couch. (So it's pretty much got a smoking/ Bar / Lounge feel to it and I needed some big heavy velvet curtains like you would see in a movie set.)
SHAZAM!
Mom dives into her material closet and pulls out 8 yards of black crushed velvet in black. So now I have big black cool curtains for the window.

Monkeying around

Monkey painting for the boys bathroom.
It's kinda fitting because of the antics, funny sounds and number of bananas that are consumed in our house.

CROSS box

What do you do with a pile of old cancelled stamps, a cigar box, paint and a broken rosary?
I take the stamps and glue em to the back of the box add some paint and glitter and then hang part of the rosary on the edge of the box and tah dah! A Cross Box.

2009 - Blog refocused on Projects

I've decided to refocus my blog on ART Projects.

In keeping with that, I have worked on a project that my Mom helped me start.
It will end up being 7 pots with 7 different letters spelling out welcome on the front porch.

I took the terra cotta pots and painted them today - and now I need to add the letters.

Spurs Game

The boys and I got amazing tickets to the Spurs game.
Great game and we ended up winning 109-104.

The tickets we got were down on the private club level.

Snow in Austin

We had our first snow in Austin.
Big flakes! At 1am it started snowing and by 6am it was completely gone.
The best kinda snow, that that you take a picture of instead of shovel.

Christmas Time

I told my neighbor that we put up the tree, had the yard lights out, had about half of the gifts wrapped and put the nativity set out. His comment was, "Did ya make gingerbread houses too, Bombarger?"
My answer - Of course - in fact we made gingerbread trains.

Are Democrats Cheesier then Republicans?

And do Republicans smell like garlic when compared to Dems?
Since it was election day and the boys and I were going to watch the election, color in an electoral map and they both voted at school, I figured that an election dinner was in order.

Yes, I prepared both Liberal and Conservative Mac & Cheese along with our trusty Elephant and Donkey Garlic Bread. We all ate every bit of it.

Questions about the meal lingered: Was the salad independent? Did my glass of red wine help one party?

School Project

It's that time of year when everyone in Kindergarten is sent home and told to make a vehicle for the "Transportation Parade" at school. Mine little one came home and said I want to be a Limo. After weeks of saving boxes to paint black he changed his mind and said, "How about a motorcycle, Dad."

Cardboard, paint, electrical tape, tinfoil and some suspenders and here is what we came up with.

BYIP??????

BYIP Balloons Yell Inappropriate Phrases? NO. Big Yellow Indestructible Poppies? NO. Bulls Yelp Into Phones? NO! BackYard Improvement Project - YES!


Before it's just some bushes.







If you start with 3 concrete rings that I got on craigslist for free, black spray paint, red mulch and plants from Home Depot and add some sweat you come out with a nice backyard.

After a little more interesting.

Patio COMPLETE

I have finished my patio. The concrete was poured, the pergola built and I laid all the wooden tiles on the patio.

I'm a huge fan of these tiles from ifloor.com

Below is the picture of what the concrete looked like without the tile. Now I'm looking at the fence and thinking it needs an upgrade.

NOTE: The fireplace from one of my earlier posts.....now in it's place.

Mexico Photos

Back from Puerto Vallarta, relaxed and the boys had so much fun.

The scenery was amazing and should inspire some artwork...not sure what yet, but hopefully these will inspire you.