We went to visit our #2 Daughter, who prefers to have as little internet presence as possible (not everybody wants to live online).
One of the reasons we went was to see the quilting table Charlie made for her, which she took home in sections, painted, and assembled.
Here’s the finished product, doors and all. More about the doors after the picture.
She made the doors. Charlie made open shelves, but her cats got in and raked everything off so they could sleep there, so she constructed doors out of wainscotting trimmed with thin baseboard. She also made the cloth baskets on the open shelves on the side.
I wish I had gotten the green hanging you can see a bit of in the upper right; it’s an art quilt she made of a black cat in tall grass. The flat stuff on the wall behind the table are her cutting and measuring boards, hung on a nail to keep them handy and out of the way.
This picture is not of a door, but it is of an opening: Charlie built a well into the table-top for the sewing machine to fit down into, so she can feed the quilting material straight through and not up over the machine base.
Before I came to another door, we checked out her massive snowball bush. Hand included for scale. No nail polish, sorry. It was Sunday afternoon, and I had removed the week’s work and not put the new week’s on yet.
Okay, so then I snapped this picture of her shed, door ajar.
And what’s that inside the door? Let’s look!
It’s the feral kitten she’s trying to tame! He’s just getting to where he’ll get close to her. We didn’t try to approach him (this is a zoom shot), because we didn’t want to mess with her progress. When she wins his trust, she’ll betray him by having him neutered. Such is life. But living in the country means you either neuter any cats you can catch or break your heart watching kittens picked off by bigger, faster predators.
Thursday doors is the brainchild of Norm Frampton, photographer extraordinaire. Visit his site, enjoy his wonderful photographs, follow his directions, and enter a world of doors.
Just in case you’re wondering what my nails look like this week, here’s a picture.
A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: Write about a wild animal.
MA
dan antion
August 15, 2019 at 8:43amNice teamwork on the sewing table. I like the cat prints on your nail. I guess that shows exactly where they have you wrapped 😉
Marian Allen
August 15, 2019 at 9:40amLOL! I believe you’re right about the cats. 🙂
Ally Bean
August 15, 2019 at 8:58amThe doors on the sewing table are beautiful. I like the detail and the reason for it. The cat motif on your fingernail is wonderful. And suggests a certain joie de vivre that makes me smile.
Marian Allen
August 15, 2019 at 9:44amThe doors were so cleverly done! Charlie and I were like, “Where did you get the doors? They’re perfect!” And she was like, “Oh, I just put them together out of scraps.” Which, when you think about it, is perfect for a quilting table!
Jean Reinhardt
August 15, 2019 at 12:53pmI love what they did with that table/desk. Very inventive with the top, too. Sorry to see that a cat walked across your nail before it was dry, lol. Nice colour choice.
Marian Allen
August 15, 2019 at 1:22pmYeah, that darn cat! lol! I bought orange polish just to match those paw prints, to be honest. 😀
Stephanie Finnell
August 15, 2019 at 3:13pmLove that she’s caring for the kitty! We had a heated ‘cat house’ (everyone loved to tease us) for our Scooter. Now that she’s gone, we have inherited a wild kingdom of raccoons and opossums. I’d much prefer the cat as cats don’t eat the tomatoes.lol
Marian Allen
August 15, 2019 at 3:57pmOur #1 daughter also cares for a pod of feral/semi-feral kitties. Her dad built a cat house for her to keep them warm in the winter. She said she put a heat lamp in there for the coldest nights. She said it’s a red light. I said, “Of course it is.”
If the raccoons and opossums have moved in, it’s time to disassemble the cat house, or maybe install a dog.
Teresa
August 15, 2019 at 5:44pmGreat collection of photos Marian… and loving your nails by the way ?
Marian Allen
August 16, 2019 at 7:41amThanks, Teresa! I’m having fun with nails this summer. 😀
Marian Allen
August 16, 2019 at 8:22amTeresa I tried to visit your blog but the address is wrong.
Marian Allen
August 16, 2019 at 8:26amIt isn’t wrong but for some reason I can’t go there unless I put in the / at the end. ?? ANYWAY I’m a-comin’ to visit! https://travel-with-tech.blog/
Joanne Sisco
August 15, 2019 at 8:26pmMy favourite part are the tiny little paw prints ?
Your daughter is a creative problem solver. Nicely done!!
Marian Allen
August 16, 2019 at 7:42amSince my publishing house is Per Bastet (House of Bastet), we’re all about cats. lol Our BOOKS aren’t all about cats, although our best sellers seem to be. 😀
Norm 2.0
August 16, 2019 at 9:00amTerrific idea to build that inset in the table for the machine to be level with the table top.
Your Daughter did a great job with those improvised doors. Who say that only necessity is the mother of invention? Sometimes it’s cats 😀
Marian Allen
August 16, 2019 at 9:43amLOL! You got that right!
joey
September 2, 2019 at 2:33pmOne: “I had removed the week’s work and not put the new week’s on yet.” Guess who also does her nails on Sunday? Me! Do you also do your wash on Sunday, or because you don’t have to leave to work, do you do it on Monday, as I did when I stayed home?
Two: I love the snowball bush, oof!
Three: I cannot BELIEVE how clean and clear her quilting table is when it’s not in use. What a tidy, tidy quilter! Love the cabinet, especially doors. Creative, practical daughter is so creative and practical.
Marian Allen
September 3, 2019 at 8:13amOne: From the Department of TMI: I do my wash when I run out of clean underwear. Since the number of those items does not equal seven, I don’t do the wash on the same day of every week.
Two: All her plants grow crazy good. They know how she loves them.
Three: One word: Perfectionist. <3