Donating at Life South today

I'm putting my bathroom vanity project on hold for today.  This morning I am off to Life South to donate platelettes. 

Even thought it's only platelettes I still get tired so this afternoon I am planning to work on the remaining 7 string blocks that I didn't get to yesterday.  I should get those finished so I have another string project ready.  This one is Strips & Strings Log Cabin from Mary Johnson's site.

And yesterday I did this pantograph on a customer's quilt.  It turned out really cute. 

I hope this works....

The bathroom saga continues...my latest adventure:

The first coat is on and it looks promising, but OH!  talk about stinky fumes!  And this stuff won't clean up with soap and water, no it cleans up with xylene, some more stinky stuff.  I hope to put another coat on tomorrow morning.  I made a little boo boo and got some sort of debris in the paint which ended up on the surface of the counter, and it's in there for good, so I will have to do a little 600 grit wet sanding to fix that up.  The color I had this stuff tinted is called Haystack, awww, and the color of the walls is warm caramel.  

I have a nice stack of string blocks though, I hope I can get to the remaining 7 this afternoon.

The light was filtering through my window blinds, so it looks like stripes. 

Labor Day weekend summary

It was a busy, and laborious weekend for sure.  The bathroom ceiling is painted, the walls are painted and I have started on the vanity.  The vanity was painted by a previous owner so I'm just freshening up.   I also found a product that I can paint my formica vanity top with.  Okay I'm a little scared about that, but I'm going to tackle that tomorrow. 

I also completed 41 out of 48 string blocks.  I trim these to 9.5".  I can't make string blocks without making crumb blocks too, so I think I got about 5 of those also.

My healthy eating choices kind of went by the wayside this entire weekend, so I need to get to the pool first thing in the morning.  I was so bad! 

Popcorn textured ceilings

It seems that painting a popcorn textured ceiling was more tricky than I thought.  As I was rolling the paint across the ceiling the popcorn texture was rolling off on the roller.  Great, just great.  It took me most of yesterday making phone calls and reading online about what to do with the mess.  I think I have the problem fixed so I have one more coat to go before I can start on the walls.  It's a bathroom for pete's sake, I thought it would be done by now.

Why is it that home improvements, no matter how simple the idea, can always turn around and bite you in the behind?  Is it just me?

Labor Day Weekend Line-up

Lots going on this weekend;

1. Finish a customer quilt, not too much to go on it
2. Prep bathroom for painting and try to get ceiling finished today
3. Zumba Saturday at 9am
4. Continue painting bathroom
5. Working on Heart Strings quilt project sew-in weekend with string blocks, lets see how many blocks I can get done while the paint is drying?

In spite of my quest to lose weight and eat healthy I think I could splurge and have pizza one night for supper.  I'll just make a large salad and have some of that first, and then a slice or two of pizza, beats cooking with everything going on. 

And besides, my DH was rejoicing over the fact that college football starts this weekend, so he will be glued to his chair. 

Have a safe and enjoyable weekend everyone!

Ugly bathroom

When we moved into our house in 2005, after making the move from Colorado Springs, one of the first things I wanted to do was repaint the ugly guest bathroom.  It had been given a sponge painting by the previous owners, and a very bad sponge treatment at that.  Pooey green and silver, yuck.  But this many years later, it still looks like this:

EEWWWW!  I've just about had it, so I picked out new towels and a shower curtain and stopped at my Home Boy Depot and got some trial paint samples.  And so to my DH I'm going to say, "look what we get to do on your day off!".    Do you think he'll be excited?

Heart Strings Quilt Project, cyber Retreat Weekend coming up

My goal for this weekend is to join the gang at Heart Strings for a Labor Day weekend cyber retreat.  I haven't been a member of the group for very long but with all of the strings I have, I thought, why not?  Blocks that are sent to a specified location are shared with other blocks and put together by members.  Because blocks come in from so many places, there is a standard criteria for the blocks so that they can all be used together in a quilt.  If you are curious about this group and the block requirements, click on the Heartstrings Quilt Project.  The actual retreat idea was mentioned on the Heartstrings Yahoo group.  I had my muslin squares and red and blue center strips cut a while back, but I got lost in crumbs last weekend.  When I heard the group was retreating this weekend, it gave me the push I needed to plan the activity for this coming weekend.