Sunday, July 20, 2014

My weekend project...

We ordered some doors from Home Depot for our bathroom remodel.  Two of the doors are for the closet entry and one is the bathroom entry.  We were going to get antique doors but couldn't find any that matched and were affordable.  Anyway we were going to have someone stress paint the doors for us but that didn't work out so I decided to take on this project myself.  I have never stress painted (using chalk paint) before but typical for me I take on a huge project.  3 doors both sides is a lot!  Here are some pictures.  I still have wax to apply to the back sides of two doors and an entire door but my arms are beat!
Doors 'Before' Knotty Pine doors from Home Depot

Spray Shellac on the doors since they are pine to seal them.

Chalk painted white base coat and then old white final coat 



Painting the Old White coat

Stressed (with sand paper)


One door waxed on one side

One of the closet doors stressed






Sunday, July 6, 2014

Long weekend almost over..

Sad to say this long weekend is almost over.  It was a nice relaxing weekend although disappointed that the youngest could not come visit after all.  When college-aged kids get a dog I don't think they really think about how that will affect things in the future, especially if they split up and then move on.


Anyway I took a few walks this weekend but that was all and by myself. I guess I should explain myself. On Wednesday I had my dermatologist appointment and after talking with the doctor about the extremely high probability of my moles growing back and turning into melanoma (at a time that would be totally unknown) I went ahead and had the two punch biopsies done.  It is always worse that I am originally led to believe.  I thought they said it'd be 1 or 2 stitches at the most. Well it was really one stitch underneath the surface that dissolves on its own and then 3 stitches on top.  And she did two of these so I had a total of 8 stitches, one on my back and the other on my right shoulder.  Not what I expected. And to avoid injuries to the areas I am not to do any hard exercise or stretching, so not my normal exercise routines.  I was told I could take walks but figured I better not take any of the dogs so they don't jolt my arm.  It was actually nice yesterday because I got to talk to a very nice neighbor that I don't usually talk to.  I always have a dog or two with me and there is no approaching anyone else with a dog and trying to talk to them. My dogs would be barking and pulling too much.


Yesterday I watches some Sci-Fi movies since I really couldn't do much else.  It was relaxing and a real lazy day.  This morning I had some fun on a new karaoke website that someone told me about.  I recorded my first 2 songs (duets) with random other members.  Here is a link to 'If I were a Carpenter' if you care to listen.  http://www.singsnap.com/karaoke/r/b06bfd75f    Mine is the female voice of course!


I wanted to do something while we had this long weekend so today we did go and see the new Transformers movie.  It was good.  I enjoyed all the special effects.  If you like the Transformers movies, you won't be disappointed. 


I didn't really mention the 4th of July but we didn't do anything special.  I went to visit my mom and make her lunch as my dad was away for the day playing bridge in Austin.  She appreciated the help and the company.  We heard some fireworks in the evening while sitting in our living room, but didn't go anywhere to see them.  I don't really care about seeing them or not, like I used to years ago and are somewhat concerned about our dogs as a few of them really get wigged out by them.


All in all a nice relaxing weekend.  Oh made chocolate chip cookies too with the mix from my Southernbellegourmet website.  You can find them here:
http://www.southernbellegourmet.com/zz_products_cookies.php