Friday, April 24, 2015

Preschool open house

Addy's achool held an "it's almost the end of the year" pizza party and open house last night. 

A loved showing daddy her favorite books and pointing out what artwork was  hers.
And eating pizza, of course. ;)

Only a few more weeks left! 

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Office update

The office! If you've forgotten that project, it's the one I started 16 years ago and have yet to finish.

Or, we started it last September, stripped the wallpaper, then realized we should be outside working on the landscaping while the weather was still nice. Skip to mid January. I finally hit my limit of having to dig through a box in order to find any of my books, and I was motivated once again. Only problem, of course, was time. By evening time I'm pooped and definitely not interested in painting or sanding on a project with no required completion date. So I fit the work in during the day, which means I work on it, like, 7 minutes every day. Needless to say, it's taken fooooooreeeeeeveeerrrrr.
Here's what we've done:
- strip wallpaper
- steam and strip glue 
- clean walls
- sand walls
- patch bajillion holes in walls, sand, clean again 
- clean baseboards and built ins
- strip all trim with deglosser
- prime all trim, find holes and patch, sand, prime all trim again
- caulk baseboards and built ins 
- prime walls

Still to do:
- patch holes in walls I missed earlier that I can see now that we have white paint up, sand, prime those spots again
- remove plantation shutters, patch all holes, sand
- prime window
- remove window pane inlay thing, prime, paint exterior color on one side and interior trim color on the other 
- finish paint on all trim, two coats
- finish paint on walls, two coats 
- degloss, prime, paint the built in cabinet doors and shelves (currently hanging out in the basement)
- poly two or three coats the built ins
- figure out how to temporarily salvage the 30 year-old carpet 
- hire electrician to wire and install an overhead fixture 
- order and install new plantation shutters 
- furnish!

A couple in-process priming shots.
All primed!
Ceiling is looking AWESOME. The lighter everything else gets the more beautiful it becomes.

Inching closer. Hopefully I'll have my books back by 2016. ;)

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

All on her own

EJ is becoming more and more, let's call it opinionated lately during meal time. So I finally threw in the towel this morning with her oatmeal and let her go to town.
She was thrilled. ;)