Month: August 2003

No More Icky Beige Wallpaper!

Sarah General

There’s a special place in heaven for people who take the time to properly prepare walls before wallpapering them! (And an equally special place in hell for those who don’t.) Aside from a couple of seams where I swear they must have used good old Elmer’s glue to stick them down, that was the easiest wallpaper removal ever. Well, almost – I did have to use Dif to remove the paper backing and glue. If you’ve never used the stuff, and you have wallpaper to unstick, I highly recommend trying it.

I should be priming right now…

But I’m not. ;)

More Sneaky Knitting

Sarah Crafts

I finished the front of Janda at Sit & Knit last night…but since it’s just light gray stockinette stitch and looks remarkably like the back, I won’t torture you with pictures. The first sleeve is cast on, and I love how the blue is working up!

I’ve decided that since I really want to finish this project – and wear it soon! – I’m just going to ignore all of the Christmas knitting calling from my stash. There’s plenty of knitting time left until Christmas, right? Plus, a few of the hypothetical recipients have winter birthdays after Christmas, so if worse came to worse, it could always become birthday knitting…

Destructo-Boy Strikes Again!

Sarah Dogs

In an attack that has had all remote controls looking for hiding spots under the couch, TiVo – a one-year-old remote – was found mauled on the kitchen floor. Investigators believe that the bite marks are consistent with the signature bite marks left by Murphy “Destructo-Boy” Reilly. The trial took only a few moments, with the unanimous decision of the jury arriving after only 30 seconds of deliberation.

Destructo-Boy has been placed under house arrest, where he will remain until he repays his debt to society, or until his parole officer returns from work.

The owners of TiVo could not be reached for comment; however, sources close to them have revealed that a replacement TiVo remote had been acquired through an eBay auction and is being shipped via two-day shipping.

Destructo-Boy has told the media that it was simply his intention to ask TiVo to show him Good Dog U., which, tragically, was not even on TiVo at the time of the attack.

Rrrrip-it!

Sarah Crafts

Here are the things I should have been doing lately:

  • painting the basement family room
  • working on MQP
  • practicing piano for a last-minute accompanist job
  • working on a wedding gift
  • working on Christmas gifts

Instead, I’ve been working on the front of Janda…and I paid for my sneaky knitting by having to rip out 20 (!) rows of the raglan shaping today.

Tonight, I promise to make huge amounts of quilting progress in between priming and painting the wall of the basement room that we’re going to install built-in cabinets on. The rest of the walls will just have to wait until I can move enough boxes to get to them. How on earth do they manage to do an entire room in two days on Trading Spaces? It takes me two days to strip wallpaper and patch a single wall to my satisfaction…although maybe I’m being a bit of a perfectionist – after all, aside from the top, oh, 10 inches or so, the wall is going to be covered with cabinets and bookcases…

Touchdown!

Sarah General

Woo-hoo! One hour, five minutes until pre-season football! The pot of chili is simmering on the stove right now. (Thankfully, the AC makes it feel like fall, despite the fact that it’s incredibly hot and humid outside!)

I know I haven’t been blogging much lately – I’ve been busy working on projects that I can’t post about. I’ve also made some progress on projects I can post about, but I’ve been too busy doing stuff to post!