Busy Weekend of Cooking

It seems like I have been cooking for most of the weekend. Today I made 5 turkey pot pies for the freezer (and one for dinner). They will be nice for one of those February days when Cold Tired Husband comes in from snow blowing/shoveling a foot of snow from the driveway and I don't feel like cooking.

Here is the one we had for dinner tonight:

I used phyllo dough for the top crust - this brand (they chose a different spelling). This makes a very, very light top crust. I am not fond of pot pies with pie dough on the bottom and top, so I always omit the bottom crust.  DH and I  both thought this was delicious!

I have no recipe as I just made it up as I went along. I did use carrots, onions, celery, potatoes and peas.  Whatever your favorite pot pie recipe is, will work.

On Friday (while I was at work) Sweet-Husband-Who-Probably-Felt-Guilty since he was off all day, went to Sherwin Williams (at my request) and bought a quart of 'Recyled Glass' paint to do a tiny wall just off the dining room.

Here is the wall before he painted it--it's a drab off-white color:

and here it is after he painted it:

I think that oil painting looks so much better against the green walls. Regular readers may have noted that 'Recyled Glass' is the same paint I used in the living room and dining room.  I have to say, I am really liking that color. I am tempted to buy another 4-5 gallons and paint (have DH paint) the family room and kitchen the same color.
It's been 5 days since I made that big CC jewelry order and they have not even sent it out yet! They must take a 4-day weekend for Thanksgiving. I am slightly upset as I wanted that stuff before this Thursday and I probably won't get it.  I have been noticing a decline in the length of time it takes Coldwater Creek to get my orders delivered.  A couple of years back, I could order and have the item sitting on my desk (they deliver to my work address) in less than 5 days. Now it's almost always closer to 10 days.

Early this morning, I did remove the Ho banner from the tree. Thanks, AZ, for your honest opinion of which I totally agreed.  I also added some huge real lollipops that I forgotten to put on.

I don't know if I will put up any other trees. I think not. I will probably just do something in the dining room when I remove the Thanksgiving decorations and call it good.

I am very happy to report that I have not stepped a foot in any store for over a week--no black Friday shopping for me!

I Will Probably Regret it Next Year

Today I went out and sprayed every one of those invasive poppies with Roundup. It's the only way to get rid of them and even then it takes multiple sprayings. I just can't stand them flopping all over and popping up in places I don't want them.

There are plenty of them growing behind the rock wall because I toss them back there when I dig them out. So I will still get to see a them blooming out in the wild as they should be. I did keep a few plants that bloom later and are not invasive. I wrote before about the two different kinds of poppies I have. One is very nice and well behaved and the other is a weed (in my humble opinion).


Besides killing poppies, I have been painting again today.

I had a desk that was peach sponge painted for the past 10 years. Sometimes I use this desk in the living room and sometimes it just sits in the basement. It's been sitting in the basement for the past year.

I decided to repaint it green. I did that last week. Today I decided to paint blue stripes on the drawer to tie into the new blue wall color. I started by putting masking tape on the drawer.

Then I pulled off every other piece of masking tape. The green areas you see will be painted ice blue.
Here it is painted. The ice blue looks white on my monitor, but it's really a nice icy blue color.

Once it's all painted, you just pull off the masking tape (I do this before it dries). This is what it looks like when done. The ice blue stripes are the same as the wall color. What fun! I loved doing this even though the stripes did not turn out as clean as I would have liked. There was a bit of bleeding under the tape and I spent a lot of time trying to fix that. I guess I will just leave it "shabby chic". LOL.

To bring in a little blue color, I used my teenage head vase and went out and picked some of my iris and some silver King artemesia for filler. It's nice to be able to enjoy some of my garden flowers inside since that is where I am spending so much time lately.

Now I am re-painting all the picture frames in the room to give them a cleaner updated look to go with the new paint color.

DH is painting the hallway walls. I did the four doorways. We still need to do the doors tonight and a second coat on the walls. I am also working on a new valance for the living room.

So this is my relaxing weekend...........I hope you are all having fun, too!

Just so I remember what paint I used I need to include this:

Living Room walls: The Big chill Ace Hardware C45-2 Eggshell
Living Room Ceiling & Beams, Hall Ceiling and Walls: Ace Hardware, High Hiding white E34 Satin Finish

LR Windows, Floor Molding and Doors, Hall Doors, Molding: High Hiding White Semi-Gloss