If You Really Loved It Then It Wouldn’t Be on the Floor
I have apparently gotten some kind of bug. Not the sneezing or stomach ache kind, but the kind that drives your family insane from your a constant need to organize and clean.
My New N
I’m still messing around with some of the things I got at Round Top a couple of weeks ago. Jars and springs and other useless junk sits waiting for me to get inspired, which may take a while.
VOTE FOR LISA!
It’s time!!!
I need for you to go on over to One Project Closer and vote for my Noah’s Room project!
Before & After Winner!
We are this week’s winner in the Before & After contest. I’m so excited!
After a hard week with my dad, this was such a boost. Thank you to the One Project Closer
How to Make Useless Giant Legos
For those of you that are interested in making extra-large, paper covered, useless Legos….here you go.
The Mess
So many of you have been concerned about the pressure I am putting on myself to get the room finished.
I appreciate your concern.
I am going to give myself a break.
I listen to my advisors.
Day Seven
Details, details, details! I’m ready to be finished with the details!
The new room seems soooooo cloooose to being finished.
I didn’t work on it yesterday. I needed a break.
Today when I woke up I just KNEW that with a little elbow grease and some bribery for my 18 year old son I could get it finished.
But NOOOOO. There are so many teeny-tiny, miniscule, seems-like-they-don’t-matter-but-they-do type of things that I didn’t make it. I am STILL not finished.
Before you start to throw tomatoes at me and boo and hiss and declare me a failure, never to read my blog again….let me remind you:
Building a Bed
I sat on the living room floor putting the new bed frame together.
“I’ll help you Mommy!” says a little voice.
Eight years old and eager to use the tools.
Day Six
I didn’t make my own personal deadline of finishing the new room in a week. It was just too much. Today I felt like I was possibly losing my mind and nothing was going right. I was the only person that could measure with reasonable accuracy and the only person that could use a saw….
Day Five
Another long day of working on the new room. It’s going to be great! I’m glad there’ll be a bed in there so I can fall upon it and sleep for three days after this is all over. We got it primed (pe-yew!) and then started painting. I decided to paint stripes on the short…