My first project should be finishing and filing our taxes, but that is some boring stuff.
(One of the ways I know I've calmed the heck down about a lot of things is that I used to file taxes in January. Of course, maybe it isn't I've calmed down. Maybe it is that taxes are now just one of 8 million things I have to remember to do.)
Anyway, I have been finding new more-fun-than-taxes projects, further adding to my "to-do" list.
The first project will be done by Spring Break (so help me). I wanted to do it last fall, but teaching took up more time than I expected, and fall seems to be a very busy time of year anyway.
I am making little sit-upons for G's kindergarten class so they can go out to the Reading Garden at school and not get their bottoms damp or dirty.
A small project I just finished was to add small tiles to border the kids' bathroom mirror. I had painted around it, but I never liked it. I still had some grout left over from other tiling project, so I bought a $4.99 sheet of tiles at Home Depot and voila!
Also on my to-do list: Clean the kids' mirror. Ew.
My final indoor project is repainting the table and chairs that used to belong to my mom and dad. They bought them used when I was little for $350 (this price included a hutch and sideboard, so I got the frugal gene TOTALLY honestly). Mom and Dad still have the hutch and sideboard, but they bought a bigger dining set which matches the dark shade of wood.
We had had the set as our kitchen table, since we have a matching hutch and table/chair set in our dining room. But the top of the table had completely lost the varnish, so everything was staining it, and I couldn't help but wonder how clean it was actually getting even when I took heavy-duty sanitizing products to it. It was more disgusting than my bathroom mirror.
I decided to switch Mom & Dad's table/chair into the dining room and paint it, and to use what has always been our dining room table as our kitchen table. (We didn't have a formal dining room in our first house so we bought a casual, informal set which looks fine in the kitchen, and even better than Mom & Dad's because it is a lighter wood. Plus, the top is a veneer so we could almost blow-torch it, and it would be fine.)
This is what Mom & Dad's table/chair set is looking like:
I think it will end up looking nice and even matching the rug underneath(which can't be seen under the paint-splatter sheets.
(One of the ways I know I've calmed the heck down about a lot of things is that I used to file taxes in January. Of course, maybe it isn't I've calmed down. Maybe it is that taxes are now just one of 8 million things I have to remember to do.)
Anyway, I have been finding new more-fun-than-taxes projects, further adding to my "to-do" list.
The first project will be done by Spring Break (so help me). I wanted to do it last fall, but teaching took up more time than I expected, and fall seems to be a very busy time of year anyway.
I am making little sit-upons for G's kindergarten class so they can go out to the Reading Garden at school and not get their bottoms damp or dirty.
A small project I just finished was to add small tiles to border the kids' bathroom mirror. I had painted around it, but I never liked it. I still had some grout left over from other tiling project, so I bought a $4.99 sheet of tiles at Home Depot and voila!
Also on my to-do list: Clean the kids' mirror. Ew.
My final indoor project is repainting the table and chairs that used to belong to my mom and dad. They bought them used when I was little for $350 (this price included a hutch and sideboard, so I got the frugal gene TOTALLY honestly). Mom and Dad still have the hutch and sideboard, but they bought a bigger dining set which matches the dark shade of wood.
We had had the set as our kitchen table, since we have a matching hutch and table/chair set in our dining room. But the top of the table had completely lost the varnish, so everything was staining it, and I couldn't help but wonder how clean it was actually getting even when I took heavy-duty sanitizing products to it. It was more disgusting than my bathroom mirror.
I decided to switch Mom & Dad's table/chair into the dining room and paint it, and to use what has always been our dining room table as our kitchen table. (We didn't have a formal dining room in our first house so we bought a casual, informal set which looks fine in the kitchen, and even better than Mom & Dad's because it is a lighter wood. Plus, the top is a veneer so we could almost blow-torch it, and it would be fine.)
This is what Mom & Dad's table/chair set is looking like:
I think it will end up looking nice and even matching the rug underneath(which can't be seen under the paint-splatter sheets.
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