A Tale of Two Projects

Remember this?

The slipcover for cats?

It's finally progressed to this.

And the cats approve.

It's not quite done, but a little hemming and some skirting, and it'll be good.

Which means it's time to start another project (or two), and this one(s) a doozy.

This is my youngest daughter's bedroom. We painted it when she was 10 and the color was inspired by van Gogh's "Starry Night." 

And now that she's 18 and loves all things vintage, she wants to paint it Jadeite. But before we can do that, we have to deal with the glossy royal blue  paint on the walls and that's been quite a challenge. First, we had to sand the finish down and then apply primer. What you're looking at is that process about halfway -- two primed walls and two blue walls. 

And guess what? When this room is done, I get to do it again because my other daughter wants to paint her room too, with a nice buttery yellow. Of course that yellow paint has to go over purple walls.

The moral of the story is this: Don't let 10-year-olds pick paint colors.

Comments

[Poppy K]

Hope everything is OK with you - I miss your posts! Since I'm usually busy early on Saturday mornings I can't make estate sales and I have to live vicariously though blogs like yours and dream about all the cool stuff that I'm missing out on!

[Linda]

Hi Poppy
Aren't you sweet! Thank you for checking up on me. I'm OK, just busy, and distracted by a few other things around here. I promise to be back real soon.

[rolex watches]

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