After completing Harper’s room last night, Mallory moved on to Saige’s new room. She did the cutting in for me. And then she went home. Although I was sad to see her go, I didn’t want her out in this weather! Saige and I got the first coat done before we went to bed, and then I got up early this morning and finished cutting in and Saige then rolled the second coat. We love how it turned out. I am so in love with the colors, I thought about kicking her out and making it into a craft room! Just kidding. Sort of.
This room presented a few issues. If you recall, during the pandemic Harper wanted the room painted, but we were staying home, so we utilized a hodge podge of paint we had left from other projects. One bright green wall, one bright blue wall, a couple of dark gray walls. All difficult colors to cover. We got that done. This room also used to be Quincy’s, and she spilled a bottle of gorilla glue on the carpet, so we have that issue! We finished all the painting around 1:30 this afternoon. We then cleaned the carpet. Saige had to wait for the floors to dry before moving in. That was a difficult process!
Harper helped me hang these really adorable curtains. I love them.
Saige has quite a bit of unpacking to do, and moving her stuff out of the “Preston/guest” room before we can begin in there. In all honestly, my shoulder/arm is killing me so no more painting for me today anyway.
At least no more painting above my head! I did put a coat of paint on this dresser I am painting for Harper. The dresser is in great shape, but the veneer fake wood finish was peeling. So I sanded it down, took it apart and threw some paint on it. Normally, I would not do a project like this in the house, but we are currently having an ice storm, and are I think in a blizzard warning. At least according to my phone we are. The TV says winter storm warning for our particular county. Either way, a project like this can’t be done outside today. This is my first time painting wood dressers. I married a man who loves wood finished furniture. However, he also likes to fix things up and reuse them rather than throwing them away, so he seemed to think this project was ok. I’m happy he was receptive, because I have big plans for some chairs and a table I got for free. ;)
In the midst of all these projects, we also managed to get the laundry done, and made a big dinner. I don’t know if it’s just me, but ice storms make me worry about the power and I wanted clean clothes while the machines still worked. So far, so good on that front. Also, the girls and I spent quite a lot of time in the barn rigging up heat lamps and making sure every single critter had bedding. I purchased several bales of straw so that we could bed them down in the bad weather. We got the goats a nice place made up in the barn with fresh straw. We also put their hay inside for them so they didn’t have to stand out in the freezing rain to eat. I got the rabbits all bedded in straw and turned around to realize the goats were having a nice snack - of straw. Goats are going to be sleeping on the dirt I guess, since they ate their bed! Stupid goats!
When we came inside, I decided that snow days mean big meals. Everyone is going to end this day with happiness over projects accomplished, and full tummies. I’m also praying for our power to stay on, and for the lineman who work so hard to keep us with power. Particularly my favorite lineman who I always worry about.
Mass has already been called off for tomorrow, but I wasn’t going either way. I had a hard time walking to the barn, no chance I’m driving around if I don’t have to! I will say my prayers from here- for the safety of those who don’t have any choice but to be out there.
No comments:
Post a Comment