What I've Been Up To...

Paint and floors!!! Oh if only it was that easy!!! We have had nothing but problems. To start with, the tile that I had picked out only a few weeks ago...DISCONTINUED!! The good news is that the store manager happened to walk by the flooring dept where I was unwillingly picking out a different tile, noticed my plight and offered to price match the new tile...So I got 13x13 tile for $1.48 A PIECE. So long as I don't compare this new tile to the original tile, I like it. Then my husband hired 2 neighbors/friends of ours who could use the money to do the work. Together they worked one full day and two half days before one of them quit. That left the other guy by himself to finish up. I guess it was a good thing, or so I keep telling myself, because I have had to repaint everything the Quitter did, since he just slopped it on. At least the job wasn't over and paid for before I realized the shitty job. Good for the other guy to stick with it, but parts of the floor have to be redone in the hallway, because he didn't cut the pieces right around the doorways, and I still don't have one single transition piece down. I have a friend of mine whose Hubby does floors for a living (and probably should have been the one to do the floors in the first place...) and he's going to come over and do all this for us (for free)...God love him, it made me cry. So I just have to finish glazing the cabinets and refurbishing the hardware and the kitchen will be done. And then we can move on to our next bane...I mean, home improvement project.

EDTA: And all my scrappy stuff has been relocated to various hiding spots so it won't get ruined and has yet to come out of hiding. To be quite honest I don't know when it will come out...I want to scrap badly but I just don't want to deal with the mess...sigh...

If you have stuck with me through this novel...you may now enjoy some pics of said hell...


"Bayou Shade" in the living room...


"Lunar Tide" in the dining room...ok, bad pic, it's a light green...(and yes, the light fixture is going to be replaced eventually)


Freebird (the non quitter) working on the floor...


The (2nd choice) tile in the kitchen...


"Drumskin" base coat on the cabinet doors...


"Bark" glaze...Love it!!