General

What a busy weekend – you’d think that since I had no plans for anything at all (other than church which I have to play piano for at 8 am every sunday) it would have been a calm weekend. Denis’ plane came in very late on Friday…4 hours late, in fact. So that shot Friday night. My mom and I went shopping on Saturday. Because you can never have too many swimsuits when you have a pool in your backyard – especially when they’re 50% off! And I spent sunday cleaning. Yuck. We’ve got company coming for the 4th, and our guest room is a disaster. But on the bright side, I bought and put up a new wallpaper border in my kitchen. (No, I haven’t learned from the last project). Now all I need are new curtains, since they now kind of clash with the border…these projects never end, do they? It was weird, though. I thought I was covering up an old wallpaper border, got up on my stepladder to try and take it off – it was painted on! It was a rather intricate little design (which I hated) that somebody probably spent days painting on. Oh, well. But I’m not feeling too guilty about it – I like my new border much better!

Oh, and Denis did in fact notice the new walls (they are, after all, a different color) and likes them! (Insert big sigh of relief here). :)

The Wall Disaster, Update

Well, aside from the fact that the trim looks bad now that the walls are freshly painted, I’m done. I will never, as long as I live, do that again! Right. At least until next time. But it looks great! I’ve never done any “faux finish” techniques before…why are they “faux” anyway? I mean, it looks real to me. We’ll see if Denis notices tomorrow – it is drastically different from the wallpaper that was up there – but he’s, well, a guy. :) Molly, however, has definitely noticed. Once I finally let her in the foyer, she spent 20 minutes just sniffing around each corner, as though she’d never been in the room before. Of course, she had the same reaction to the pool this afternoon, and it took my brother Dan and me several tries to get her to jump in. It’s not like she’s never been in the pool before. Go figure.

The Wall Disaster
(or, how to redecorate while your spouse is away)

OK, so it was a stupid idea in the first place. After all, if I were the one going on a business trip, he’d probably just hang out and play computer games or something fun like that. When I think of all the wonderful quilts I might have finished by now, I wonder what on earth I was thinking. But I really wanted to change the (awful) wallpaper in my foyer. Simple enough, right? I’ve had some experience taking down wallpaper and repainting, after all. But, everything that could go wrong, has. Now I’m stuck with primed walls, with paint blistering all over the place (why???) and two evenings left before Denis gets back from Japan. Hmmm… Well, maybe he’ll be too jet-lagged to notice. :)

A whole bunch of my friends have weblogs and it looks like such fun, so I decided to give it a try… I can’t promise anything – after all, my journals growing up tended to last about a week before I got tired of keeping it up-to-date – but let’s see what happens!