Another One

Another Center Street house is for sale. I don't want this one quite as much as the Van Wagenen house, but it still looks lovely.



http://utahrealestate.com/802491


Refreshingly, I think this one is only $20,000-$30,000 over priced.

A long weekend?

Matt and I both had yesterday off for Memorial Day. It was a long weekend that didn't feel very long at all! We were considering taking Winnie to the zoo yesterday, but it turned out to be rainy and a little cold. That coupled with the length of my to-do list kept us home to work on projects, but I still don't feel like I even put a dent in my list!


We painted Winnie's new crib/toddler bed black. For this painting project I used Krylon 360 spray paint. I love this stuff! The paint went on with a beautiful finish and had a great nozzle that really is much easier on your fingers than a traditional nozzle. Right now the crib is airing out in Matt's parents' shop because the 360 is a lot more smelly than the Krylon H2O I used on the dresser, but when everything is assembled and in place, I'll post pictures.

I made a mobile for my cousin's baby shower, which ended up being cancelled because baby decided to come a month early. I've been planning to make something similar for Winnie since before she was born, but never even got around to buying the supplies until last week. The shower was a great motivation to get going on this project.

I actually really love how this turned out, but couldn't get a picture that I think showed it well. You can't really tell in this picture, but the leaves are green vellum so they have a nice translucence. The birds are regular card stock, and the branch is from a Redbud in Marshall and Susan's yard that died last summer. The arm in the top corner belongs to Matt and does not come with the mobile. I'm planning to make Winnie's about twice as large (I had to keep transportation in mind with this first one) with red vellum flowers instead of leaves. I am somewhat concerned about how well this one will travel from Utah to Las Vegas--especially since, when we got back in the car after leaving it at Aunt Sue's, I found a leaf that had already been pulled off. If it doesn't make it in one piece, sorry Patrice!

Other than that, Winnie took her first tumble down the stairs, we did some projects around the house (a new shelf in the office, some hooks for my aprons in the kitchen, miscellaneous wall repair for damaged caused by my tendency to hang things on the wall and then decide to move them), tried to organize the office/Winnie's room/Matt's recording studio to help them all co-exist peacefully, and did laundry, laundry, laundry. How can 3 little people create so much laundry?

Spring in the Garden

New Old Dresser

I have a dresser that's been in various stages of stripping/refinishing for probably 20 years, and before that was in a flood in my great aunt's house. Mom inherited it and started to strip it but never quite finished. I, in turn, stole the dresser from Mom's basement because I loved the lines and of it and love free furniture. :) I've had it for 7 years now and never finished stripping it, so I finally gave up and decided to just paint it for Winnie's room. I never remember to take the right pictures when I do projects, so there is no before image but here's the after:

Okay, so it's only mostly "after" because I still haven't finished painting the carved details white. The green is "Moss" Krylon H2O spray paint. I hate rolling/brushing paint and love the ease of spray paint. I really liked that the H2O dried and hardened much faster than a brush-on latex paint would have and had very little odor. Unfortunately, all four cans of paint that I used on the dresser didn't have a uniform spray--it almost came out looking foamy, so it was really hard to get a smooth finish. By the time I'd sprayed all of the coats, most of the paint looks smooth enough, but it's not the even finish I've gotten from other spray paints.

Now I just need to buy some drawer liners. I have this funny quirk where I love antique furniture, but hate to think about my clothes (or Winnie's clothes, in this case) touching drawers that have been exposed to 100 years of dirt.

Books

Winnie reading to her newest baby.

Rough Start . . .

Matt started working at the public defender's office Monday. It was a rough start, thanks in large part to me having given him the wrong address. I wanted to go see where he'd be working, so I looked the address up on online and we drove by and checked out the office on our way home from work/school. It was after hours so we didn't try to go in, but didn't have any reason to think we weren't in the right place because their signage was on the door. Unfortunately, after waiting around for about 25 minutes for someone to open the door, and about 10 minutes after Matt was supposed to be at work yesterday, he discovered they'd moved--2 years ago! Oops! So much for my power to find anything on the Internet. When Matt arrived at the right office, he was told that that the person he's supposed to report to is unexpectedly out of town for a week, so they didn't have much for him to do--except go to some hearings at the court house that had already started.

The good news is that Tuesday went much better and Matt is getting to spend some extra time with Winnie.

On another front, they dropped the price of the Van Wagenen house another $50,000. Another $100,000 to go and it will be priced where it should have been all along:

http://utahrealestate.com/745603

I hope someone buys it that appreciates the wall paper in the bedrooms. The wall paper in the kitchen and the dining room need to go, but the bedrooms are lovely.

Slip Covers

I bought the fabric for my chair slip-covers. It isn't the Sunbrella fabric that I originally wanted, but it is half the price of the Sunbrella.

(On my screen the fabric looks a lot more green than it really is).

I'm going to use cream piping and put cream ball-fringe around the bottoms of the skirts.