Barbara Pagani's Tresor Cache 101

 So you ask yourself what does one do with these; my grandsons played with them making towers learning how to have a steady hand and how balance works. Now our favorite game is Jenga.  Anyhow I asked the person who bought them from me what she planned on using them for and she is using them as the base for Christmas bottle brush trees. I hope she is able to send me a photo. That's the only thing annoying about Poshmark is you are limited to conversations as they think you are doing transactions off their platform. This was a funny incident I shared with my grandsons wondering if they would have attempted to take one box out of this pile at the store

here are some of the skates that I painted some time ago and gave away as gifts

Finished these choir girls just in time for Christmas and now my finger nails are all full of hot glue

 I found more skates but this is it. They are too expensive even at second hand stores now. I did 2 pairs of men"s skates and they were not easy. The material on them needs to be coated with chalk paint first and then I can use acrylic paints on top. I don't think I will do any more men"s skates unless I find the goalie ones which have plastic on the outside of them. Both were spray painted first in black to cover the ugly brown.

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Here are some of the Christmas decorations for this year. This one is new which I made from an idea I found on Pinterest This comes from Beatrice Banks http://beatricebanks.blogspot.ca/search/label/Christmas And here is mine, a little smaller.I may rough it up a bit more b/4 varnishing it. I will get hubby Chuck to drill a hole in it so that I can hang it. My daughter Sam will tell me the best place to put it as we call her our Christmas Nazi.....as she is the decorator and doesn't allow anyone to just put anything up.

It's that time again to start painting more skates for Christmas gifts. I have a box of them in the basement to decorate. Here are the ones from last year.