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A couple of weeks ago, my staff member Butch, learned of a giant house that was to be torn down.  There were many valuable things left in the house; refrigerators, cabinetry, granite counters, huge solid wood doors.  It was really quite remarkable so many valuable items were left for the ripping ball.  Butch got permission to salvage things before the wrecking ball arrived.  I was lucky to be invited and spent a few Saturday hours salvaging a couple of  rusted iron window planters, garage vacuums, some wooden blinds, and thinking of my need for curtain rods, two pieces of copper pipe.  Butch salvaged pounds and pounds of copper; can't wait to hear how much he gets for his work!

Anyway, thinking about my copper pipe curtain rod made me ponder a curtain rod holder.  Ran across a brand new box of flexible copper tubing at our local Re-Store ($5), did some research on how to coil the stuff and came up with some pretty darn unique curtain rod/hanger assemblies!!  I think this is Pinterest stuff here!!  Just need to figure out how to get something posted on that site!!

The beautiful fabric is another great find!  Two panels of French fabric found at a local second hand store for $4.00 each.  This fabric goes for $58/yard.  I snagged it fast and the five yards of beautiful red print raw fabric.  I turned the edge over, added some grommets and now have the most perfect curtains for the sunflower room!! This fabric even has sunflowers on it!!  Woot!  Woot!!

And the bedroom project is complete!  Master Carpenter Mike is quite happy to be finished and pleased with the result, as am I.  The bedroom is beautiful!!  We just love how the corrugated metal wainscoting turned out!!

Isn't it wonderful?  The picture above the bed is a real find and a great story about a local program called "Art from the Heart".  The local Whole Foods and Re-Store have a program where you can donate your art and they put the money toward local affordable housing.  There were 3 of these pictures by Howard Behens (check this artist out at Info of Artist Behens ) hanging in the grocery store the other day.  I sought out my art adviser, Victoria Trumbower, who coached me to snag them, even if they were not originals!  They are limited edition giclee creations which have the 3-D oils effects he was famous for creating.  You'd never know the difference looking at them.  Troweled-on globs of oil create these beautiful images.  Quite lovely.  I like them, and I got them for a steal!  Thanks for your nudging Victoria.  Mike likes them too!! 

Now we wait for the snow to melt so we can get farming!!  There is still at least 18" of snow.  It did get warm enough for me to flip-flop my bee hive and I was thrilled to see how many bees remain after one of Wyoming's longest and coldest winters!!  There is hope for honey and comb this season!! The big bonus for me is the bees were calm and happy.  It was great to light up the smoker and crawl into the suit again; knowing so much more than I did a couple of weeks ago!!