If you adore snow, like I do- then waking up to this beautiful stuff is a dream come true. Now, if I could just get it to go on for about 4 days.
Mmmmm. Heaven.
Pretty Little Pastime
This may just turn into something that comes together at the turn of the next century. Who knows? What I do know is that if there’s ever a teensy molecule of stress or tension in me–anywhere, pulling out a beloved project like this one is guaranteed to soothe it allll away…in a matter of minutes. Just something about the rhythm of repetition that works on my soul. Sounds silly, I guess, but still true.
I hope you have something lovely that works like this in your life.
Tell me–do you?
HOLD Everything!!
We interrupt this regularly scheduled move in…
to bring you–ahem–me, a new rewiring of the whole house announcement.
The guys are working like crazy to update the electrical–which has stalled the actual move in.
But it will be WELL worth the wait.
I mean, seriously, who wants to blow a fuse every time we flip on a computer or run the blender or watch Sea Biscuit for the 6,000th time?
No, no. This is a good thing.
Just happy to be here.
{ The Happy Life }
Happy Sunday, friends.
That~ahem~Wallpaper
Once the Bald Guy got the insulation off the ceiling the next big deal was this ancient wallpaper. Crazy stuff–I’m telling you. It was probably beautiful in it’s day, and not a particularly cheap kind either. But it made the room so dark and foreign looking to me.
I did a ton of research on exactly what solutions would take it off with the least amount of drama and I finally found a natural site that promised good results with just a few ingredients.
We planned a whole day around spraying on a vinegar and water mix and letting it soak. But first I had to take off all the fixtures. The light switch covers were actually very pretty…up close.
And these little pull chain heater vents were just so cute I wanted to leave them.
But we forged ahead and got all the hardware off the walls. Then April said, “See if you can loosen any of the paper from the bottoms before we spray.”
I grabbed a tiny corner of one panel and lifted it up gently. To my surprise, the whole strip just came off in one piece –from the floor to the ceiling!
I tried it with the next panel and sure enough–without spraying or soaking or ANYthing, the paper came off in perfect sheets–like it had never been used at all.
Seventeen minutes later we had a lovely, dry, snow white wall just waiting to be painted. It was hilarious!
So, we’ve moved on to the taping plastic everywhere and painting phase.
In the meantime…
Anyone want some wallpaper?
Hardly ever been used.
HAhahaa!