Three weeks ago I successfully got all the drywall up in my bedroom project. Three weeks ago. I’m still not finished with the mudding and sanding process, but I’m getting close. Before I could finish that, I needed to finish a built-in display case. And to do that, we needed to go to my dad’s garage, or as I call it, Santa’s Workshop.
STRIPPING THE WALLPAPER: PART TWO
So I’m three weekends into our home renovation project. With the dumpster finally gone, it was time to stop tearing things apart and start putting them back together. I’m finding things were moving a little slower than I had expected though. I think it’s because I don’t have a concrete deadline other than ‘as soon as possible.’ But even though it’s moving slower than I’d like, we are still making progress. Each weekend starts with coffee, donuts, and big hopes.
STRIPPING THE WALLPAPER
For as long as I can remember, it seems like long Holiday weekends were reserved for doing some sort of house project. Whether it was landscaping, painting the fence, digging a trench, building a deck, tearing down a deck, remodeling a kitchen, or hand scrubbing the aluminum siding, my family always had something going on. It was mostly work at my parent’s house, but also by grandma’s, and my grandpa’s house too. And then as we got older, add in my brother’s house, and now mine. So while most of my friends would be spending this Memorial Day weekend attending the local Polish festival, going to the movies, having family BBQs or attending cool events called Meat Fest, I would be tearing apart my house.
THE WEREBABY!
Beware! Lock your cabinets and guard your refrigerators for when the moon is full, the Werebaby strikes! With the strength of ten babies and the thirst of a hundred, the Werebaby will stop at nothing to take any baby’s bottle! The only thing that can deter the Werebaby are silver plated rubber nipples. Uh Oh… The moon is full… it’s almost midnight! Gaga Goo Goo… HOOOOOWWWWWLLLLLLL!!!!
CREEPY CRAFTY
Halloween was quickly approaching and we needed to decide if we were going to dress Ellie up or not. We originally agreed to do a Hello Kitty costume, but the only costumes we liked were online and we never made an effort to purchase them. And with a few days to Halloween, it just wasn’t going to work. Then I thought of doing a mummy costume. How cool would a baby mummy be!? The caption of the photo would read “I love my mummy,” even though her daddy put the costume together. Whatever, I’d still love it. But Aya didn’t want our child dressed up as a dead person.
I needed to come up with something else. Something easier. Something better. And I did! But it was an idea so secret I didn’t even tell Aya. Only my mom and I knew. And that’s what brought me to JoAnn Fabrics a few days before Halloween. Continue reading “CREEPY CRAFTY”