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RIP George Carlin. I was really sad to wake up and see that headline. Carlin was one of the very first comedians that I really liked instead of thinking it was mostly stupid and not funny... possibly because he did all the Catholic school stuff that I could relate to.
I got the painting done... it could use another coat in spots but the paint was prohibitively expensive and most of the walls will be covered with bookshelves anyway. If I have time, I'll paste up the trim strip in the evenings and then I can address the floor this weekend. Considering that the floor will take me at least one weekend and probably two, I should be able to consider building bookshelves sometime in July. And I have decided to build rather than buy bookshelves for at least one wall. I'm uncertain about the other three. I don't have enough bookcases to fill all of them up...but I don't know how much space (yet) they will take up. Pffttt! After the floor, I can consider that... I'm getting ahead of myself.
While I was painting, I dropped the bucket of paint... which splashed upward onto my arm and shoulder with splatters on other various body parts. (At least it did not overturn!) The clothes were no problem... that's been my painting shirt for years... but getting the paint off my skin proved a bit challenging. So I pulled out a oil and salt scrub that I've had for awhile... baaad idea! It didn't help with the paint and made such a sticky mess of my skin that I had to go get Dawn and a wash cloth to make it let go... and the wash cloth is toast. I threw it away rather than try to get all that gunk out of it. I also threw away the scrub! It was from my old job and I didn't know how bad it was until I had tried a good scrub... namely A Walk in the Woods Sugar Scrub.
In the process of looking for my thimble, I did get the sewing room thoroughly cleaned... still irritated at my brat furry children.
When I finish the library, the bathroom is next on the agenda to be fixed and re-painted (and probably re-floored). I had a brilliant idea for the walls... I'm going to get a gallon of white paint and a gallon of blue and start with the ceiling almost entirely white. Then I'm going to slowly add the blue to the white as I go down the walls so that they aren't a solid colour but graduated... dark blue down at the floor and getting lighter as it goes up. If I can make it work, it should be beautiful! (I could make it work on fabric... I don't know about paint.)
Another note to self, I want to make Mariner's Compass blocks for at least one corner of the Storm at Sea quilts... to see the person who owns it safely home. This is especially important on 80s quilt since he tends to like to travel a good bit.
And one more: Midsummer may not be a fertility holiday... but don't take stupid chances!
Edit: I found the cap to the light fixture! It was lodged in one of the feet of the step ladder I was using. Now, I looked there yesterday, and it wasn't there then. Thank you brownies... I appreciate the return of it. (Note to slef: Leave out creme for the brownies)
I got the painting done... it could use another coat in spots but the paint was prohibitively expensive and most of the walls will be covered with bookshelves anyway. If I have time, I'll paste up the trim strip in the evenings and then I can address the floor this weekend. Considering that the floor will take me at least one weekend and probably two, I should be able to consider building bookshelves sometime in July. And I have decided to build rather than buy bookshelves for at least one wall. I'm uncertain about the other three. I don't have enough bookcases to fill all of them up...but I don't know how much space (yet) they will take up. Pffttt! After the floor, I can consider that... I'm getting ahead of myself.
While I was painting, I dropped the bucket of paint... which splashed upward onto my arm and shoulder with splatters on other various body parts. (At least it did not overturn!) The clothes were no problem... that's been my painting shirt for years... but getting the paint off my skin proved a bit challenging. So I pulled out a oil and salt scrub that I've had for awhile... baaad idea! It didn't help with the paint and made such a sticky mess of my skin that I had to go get Dawn and a wash cloth to make it let go... and the wash cloth is toast. I threw it away rather than try to get all that gunk out of it. I also threw away the scrub! It was from my old job and I didn't know how bad it was until I had tried a good scrub... namely A Walk in the Woods Sugar Scrub.
In the process of looking for my thimble, I did get the sewing room thoroughly cleaned... still irritated at my brat furry children.
When I finish the library, the bathroom is next on the agenda to be fixed and re-painted (and probably re-floored). I had a brilliant idea for the walls... I'm going to get a gallon of white paint and a gallon of blue and start with the ceiling almost entirely white. Then I'm going to slowly add the blue to the white as I go down the walls so that they aren't a solid colour but graduated... dark blue down at the floor and getting lighter as it goes up. If I can make it work, it should be beautiful! (I could make it work on fabric... I don't know about paint.)
Another note to self, I want to make Mariner's Compass blocks for at least one corner of the Storm at Sea quilts... to see the person who owns it safely home. This is especially important on 80s quilt since he tends to like to travel a good bit.
And one more: Midsummer may not be a fertility holiday... but don't take stupid chances!
Edit: I found the cap to the light fixture! It was lodged in one of the feet of the step ladder I was using. Now, I looked there yesterday, and it wasn't there then. Thank you brownies... I appreciate the return of it. (Note to slef: Leave out creme for the brownies)
