August 21, 2004

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  We did SO much that today I can take it a bit easy. I am glad because I am wicked crampy *ok, TMI I know..sorry*. I only have a couple things left to do from the big list, so I am erasing all the "done" stuff. This gets small fonts today because it isn't today's focus.    Don't have a focus yet today *yeah, I know it is almost 2 p.m. ... I need to pick a focus. Living Room: Done Family room: Done Kitchen: Wash front of fridge *I will add cleaning inside fridge shelves for this week* Dining Room: Put up windows hardware and water plants Breakfast Room: Done Laundry Room: Vac and straighten room Master Bedroom: Done Brenna's Bedroom: Done General: -clean & vacuum a/c units Main Bathroom: Done Master Bathroom: clean shower, vacuum floor, dust shelves, clean sink, put new toilet seat on    I think today I will focus on not feeling icky. 800 mg Motrin is my best friend today.    On a nicer front, Thursday a teenage son of a friend called me. Daniel was helping his girlfriend Ashley and her aunt finish moving. She had a vanity that they weren't taking with them and that was going to wind up being trashed. Daniel wanted to know if I could use it/wanted it. I told him sure, as I had to come pick up Brenna over that way in a few minutes anyway. If I couldn't use it, then I would see if anyone else, could, or I would drop it off at the thrift store.   Brenna will soon have a vanity for her room. I had been thinking of something EXACTLY like this just a few days before. God is so cool! I plan to sand and paint this with primer, then white, and then I will pick a floral pattern and give it an antique painted furniture finish. I plan to do that with all her 1960s era maple furniture that was her daddy's. It is good furniture, but it just happens to be just about the only type of wood I don't like! lol Paint is a wonderful thing. Here is the dresser in its current state ( and current location of my family room, soon to be remedied ): V More projects! I love them but I have enough to keep me busy at LEAST full time for a year. Last month my friend Brian *Daniel's dad, in fact* gave me an old Lane Cedar chest from the 1960s, early 70s.   It is laminate over cedar, and it looks "very" 1970s. I plan to cover the laminate with wainscoting material and white wash it, and paint roses or something else suitably shabby chic on it. The foot piece is just screwed onto the bottom, so I think I will take that off and buy fence newels *ya know, the round nobby guys* in pine and add those to the bottom. I will white wash those also. That will go in my guest bedroom as a blanket chest, most likely. I was going to work on that outside today, but between my cramps and the drizzle, that idea is toast.   Another project which I am going to finish it this week is the stenciling on my kitchen table: Mike primed and painted the table for me, and now I need to stencil the top. I picked pretty stencil and am going to use a delft blue. Then it will be polyurethane topped. The bench and chairs will also be white-washed, and a cushion made for the bench. I will be reupholstering the chairs. I have three of them.    This is my sideboard in my dining room:     I paid $25 for this at a thrift store! It is solid wood with a cherry veneer. It has damage on the top * very visible here* and on the bottom left the laminate has a damaged spot. I am trying to decide how to "relife" this piece. I am leaning towards painting it black with gold trim and highlighting hte routed edges in gold also. I may paint florals on the top, front, drawers, etc. and make it look like an antique painted piece. I have seen original pieces like this and they are FABULOUS. What do you think?    Lastly, here is my pie safe that is about 100 years old.    This was Mike's great grandmother's. His aunt that was here last night is the one that stripped it. All the family was looking at it and saying it looked familiar.*they are up visiting from Virginia* Finally, they realized it was their grandma's piece. lol I am just going to treat this with tung oil and put it in my spare bedroom. It will be a TV chest and used for storing my sewing fabrics inside.    If I am able to get these projects done by mid fall I will be ECSTATIC. By the end of the year, really happy. lol If the weather cooperates today I may be able to get something started as I feel better. If I am forced to stay inside I will do my stenciling on my breakfast room table. Slowly slowly...  D                                                      Blessings..                                                Kathie

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