Back Roads Treasures
Dogwood drive K0A 3P0 Ottawa, ON, Canada

Happy rainy Saturday! I am busy here weeding stencils for my craft kits. Yup you heard that right. I am making take home kits of all my workshops. I'll post some samples soon. Taking orders for all my Fall and Winter projects. Even my much requested Christmas Tree Trio.

Beautiful crisp morning and I am spending it staining a patch of my Porch Pumpkins. They are approximately 20 inches high and come with a reversible hanging sign which you pick 2 short sayings. I have a fall and a Halloween one! Here's to a great start of the week!

What's she making now? Had this idea bouncing around for a while, thank goodness the weather has cooled so now I can make it. Happy little woodworker is she....

Milk Paint by Fusion: Did you all know Fusion was coming out with a Milk paint line this October? Fusion as a company has been doing milk paint for over 30 years, 30 Years is a long time to perfect your formula. Want to learn about Milk Paint by Fusion? follow them here: https://www.facebook.com/MilkPaintbyFusion/ https://www.instagram.com/milkpaintbyfusion/... Now to decide if I'm going to carry it....hmmm. Decisions, decisions.

Anyone else have trouble with the days of the week being indistinguishable since Covid started? It's kinda driving me a bit batty. Not only that: I can't undertand how I can spell words like indistinguishable with no problem, but still use the wrong your, you're..funny how a person's brain works, or doesn't. I mean really first world problems right?

New paint colour alert: French Eggshell. Thought I would drop you some beautiful pieces in this new Fusion colour I brought in last week. I found all these pieces Paint It Beautiful an exclusive Facebook page dedicated to Fusion Mineral Paint. Special thanks to Rosie's Rustics and Lindsay Bowman for allowing me to use their beautiful pieces.

How did it get to be Sunday again? I have zero plans to attempt projects today, how about you?

Got another paint delivery today!!! All stocked up on Picket fence Buttermilk Cream Casement Coal Black... Champlain Chocolate Cathedral Taupe Damask Limestone 12 Casement came in and already 8 are gone to my regular customers. But don't you worry I have more on order.

Just a wild and crazy gal taking super dangerous, wild and crazy chances with fate! I ate raw chocolate chip cookie dough.... shhhh... don’t tell anyone, but why don’t you share with me about your wackiest or out of character thing you done lately?

My paint has arrived!!!! Yay for all.of us painters having a bigger choice in colours!

Yay! Found out Fusion Paints is open and I can put my paint order in. Cant wait to start on some new projects at home. What are you working on?

Most accurate picture of the family and I trying to pivot the business from in store to online. Anyone else? No, just us? Hope you all are doing well!

Two mini fluffles of bunnies "self isolating" while waiting to be picked up by their new owners.

This wasn’t the post I was planning on doing today but here it is haha Had something planned out for these little guys who are making their way to their new homes today (guess this will do)! Welp, should have seen that coming! Fusion Paint warehouse has to close it doors for the next two weeks at least. So I am unable to put in a new paint order, Of course. But I do have some in stock at the moment! Bedford... Buttermilk Cream Casement Cathedral Taupe Champlain Champness Chocolate Coal Black Coral Cranberry CUREiously Pink Enchanted Echinacea Fort York Red Goddess Homestead Blue Inglenook Lamb white Laurentien Lavender Liberty Blue Limestone Linen Little Lamb Little Piggy Little Teapot Little Whale Park Bench Pebble Picket Fence Plaster Prairie Sunset Renfrew Blue Seaside Speckled Frog Tuscan Orange Twilight Geranium Everything is changing so fast these days its hard to keep up. How are you all doing? What are you all working on?

Hey, Creatives! Its been a while since I have posted on here because Sometimes, I honestly just don’t know what to write about and what to say. But I felt it was important to take the time right now and just say thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the love and support I have received from you all this week. The check-ins, the hellos, and the orders! We greatly appreciate it all. As some of you may know already, the store where I had my booth and ran my w...orkshops has unfortunately closed suddenly. I wasn’t sure what to do with myself or what would become of my business. It has been kind of a scary time. But then, people contacted me, checking in on my family and business and making orders for porch pickups. This is when I realized it was time to make a shift in what I was doing and have all of you to thank for it. Since I have been stuck inside now for 9 days with 8 people (yikes!) I think we all have come up with some great ideas so I can keep in touch with you all and keep teaching and doing what I love most! I’m excited to say that coming soon I will have a full catalog of all my classes put together. ATM I know unfortunately we can’t all be together in class, but I will be selling the wooden bases individually. We are also looking for ways for us to connect online via Facebook lives or some program where I can be online with you (possibly zoom). I am putting a Fusion paint order this week for some customers, so if there are colours you need, just let me know and I can order them for you. If you have any questions, please reach out and I can help you to the best of my abilities. Thank you for all your love and support Sincerely, The McDonald Family

these would be perfect for a small workshop! I'm getting some to do a drop in during a Saturday or Sunday.

Full disclosure: Flippin' Fun Creations is a friend, fellow woodworker, builder and workshop design creator. I am so exciting to see what new ideas she is coming up with for this year!!!

What am I doing now? Why I’m timing myself while painting plaid. Yes I said Plaid. Wait until you see it, it’s amazing and coming in a future workshop.