The saga of the boat continues...grab a seat

Sorry guys for my absence..we have been celebrating the fourth of July!  Well, I've been mostly celebrating.  Poor Jay has been working on the boat.

So many changes.  I am so proud of my handsome man.  I have also been semi-busy with the seats.  Some old and new pictures are included.

Yes friends..the boat is gonna be red!

Sweetie's desk in the office!!! OMG :-)

When women gush about their boyfriends or husbands, let's all admit we roll our eyes.  We think in our heads...well yeah but I bet he doesn't put the toilet seat down...or take out the garbage...or worse, snores:-) But brace yourself, I'm getting ready to gush.  Because my sweet Jay snores but he built me this amazing table for my office.  So all else is forgiven..at least for a while.

And even better, I talked him into giving up his huge TV so I could add his old TV cabinet to the office for storage.  He even offered to paint it for me.  Yep, he is adding up those brownie points.  The pictures are after a day of frantically opening boxes and trying to get some things put away.  I still have about 6 or 7 boxes to go and a cabinet in the man room (garage) that needs to be cleared out but it is a pleasure to work in the office putting things away.  All storage is dollar store or yard sale or goodwill.  The whole project cost about $100 if you include paint.

If you want details, just comment and we will provide the answers to any questions. More pictures of the room to follow and boat pictures are always on the way!

BTW, Jay thanks!  and I love you!

Sweetie's desk...finished painting

On Saturday, Jay finished painting the desk/craft table painting.  All that is left is to put it together and load it up with all my treasures.  The pictures are in the next post!

The skeeter...day 2

Jay is enjoying working on the boat so much.  He was out in the garage yesterday in the 96 degree heat covered in fiberglass.  I think he would work on it 24 hours a day if I was not here :-)  He made amazing progress on his journey to put the boat in the water.  Here are some pictures.

A desk for his sweetie..me!!!!

Jay is a wonderful man.  He does things everyday to make me happy.  When he saw how happy I am when I am painting, or sewing, or crafting...he knew his life would be happier if I stayed that happy.  Then when I saw an amazing craft desk and wished out loud that I had one...he had a mission.

The mission has started with a cheap and pretty ugly desk ($15 at the thrift store) , a couple of inexpensive book shelves ($20 each), and bi-fold doors ($7.00 in the Lowes damage door area).  I will follow his journey to give me the craft table of my dreams.

Here is the beginning :-)

The boat...day one after pressure washing

Here is the beginning of the journey.  The boat has been pressure washed.  It will now be moved to the garage for the work to begin.

In the beginning...there was a boat

Well...this is a story of a man and the sea.  No not that one...this one is a different story.  This is a story of the love of my life, Jay.  And his love of the sea.  Jay has spent most of his life on a ship.  A couple of years ago he had a stroke and has been unable to continue working on the wide ocean.

Now we rent a home in a lovely town in Virginia among fabulous people who support us daily.  We live on the water and love it.  But the water calls him.

To say we don't have much money is an understatement...but we have love and we both are very crafty.

We buy inexpensive flea market (or pickup road side trash) and refurbish it for our home.

Jay's latest adventure is a boat.  A flea market boat you ask? Not quite.  A $50 boat.  Yep, it is what you expect. But he is dedicated to his vision of fishing and crabbing.  The boat is a 1973 skeeter bass boat.

I am documenting this journey.