M's bedrrom

Got the bedroom painted, and the loft bed in place. Now, all we need to do is put the shelving back up and some pictures on the wall, and we're set. :) Whew! Another project finished!

Last weekend, I stopped by my friend's house to help him try and clean out some of his dead wife's stuff....what a collection! We only made a tiny dent, when I collected all the yarn and pattern books, and took them home. I really don't know what else to do with the rest of the stuff, other than advising him to have an estate dealer come in, or a huge garage sale. :(

So, my next project is to go through all this yarn, etc., and sort out what I want to keep and what I want to give away I've sorted the patterns, now it's just a matter of going through the yarn...four large garbage bags of it! :o I suppose that should be my afternoon project, but I'm procrastinating!! :D

Work projects

Hmmmm...how did I get roped into this, anyway???

My last post mentioned buying paint for M's bedroom. Spent a whole weekend on that project, and it turned out well. :) That same Sunday, DH cut the lumber for the loft bed. He brought it home that evening and set it up in the garage and said (paraphrasing) "Okay, it's all ready for you two to sand and stain". :O Huh? I thought you said that morning, that you were going to do all that at the farm so it wouldn't be so messy at the house!

So, guess who ended up sanding and staining--AND varnishing--the damn bed (with a little help from the boy)?! I slapped the varnish on Thursday evening, and it got the opportunity to dry really well all weekend, since we were all gone out of town. Then, this morning, DH says, "There's some pretty rough spots on that bed--it should probably have a swipe of some steel wool done to it" (hint, hint). So I told to have at it, cuz I had to go to work today. :p

Guess who had to go out and buy some steel wool and brought it home this afternoon. And, guess who is conveniently out of town today, doing a "rainy-day" project?! Uhhh, yeah--that would be ME who's now been elected to fine sand the damn bed. Good thing I got little hands to help me as soon as I'm done writing this. Hey, if he wants to sleep in it tonight, he better get out there and help! ;)

What they say about taking a list to the store...

...is SO true!

Okay, so I forgot my list. I had about a whole 5 items listed--all odds and ends that are located in every separate department of that store, of course. Matthew and I put our heads together, and come up with the basics that we thought were on the list; pantyliners for me...litter for the cat...yarn for me....okay, what else? M says, how about new curtains for my room? Well, as long as that particular aisle is right in front of us....Two sets of curtains and rods later....

Hey, the paint department is right here, too! Let's look at paint for M's room. One gallon of green, and a quart of rusty yellow/orange later (pretty much the same shades as on my blog page)--along with masking tape--we head towards ladies' socks department. Whattaya know, aren't these new vacuum cleaners pretty? yeah, you guessed it, a new Bissell ends up in the cart.

We finally get to the yarn and throw that in the cart...finally get to the socks and throw them in the cart. Let's see, I think we just need a few groceries....(M says) Mom, I need new tennis shoes. I don't know what they have against kids, but this store's selection of shoes are baby, toddler, and then jump to adults. But, we do manage to find a pair for him--ONE in his size.

By this time, I'm pretty much shopped out, and I have to go to the bathroom really bad. Off to the grocery section and throw in a few items, and we're outta there with over $100.00 more spent than originally planned. Good thing it was payday yesterday.

Of course, now that I have the paint, I need to actually be productive and USE it! :o Egads, I can hardly walk in that room much less empty it out enough to get to the walls and paint them. :p