i hope everyone's mother's day was good, and i am hoping everyone's weekend was restful.
ok let's see
today i am sanding and painting the trim on the front door
it's a color called cafe cream from behr, UL140-12u in a semi gloss- i took my favorite cream paint chip in (from valspar) and it matched pretty close if not identical so off we go
this paint is got primer build in so i have high hopes of no issues and no more mildew
but we do have to prune the tree back.
we went sunday to home depot to get the paint. now online and in blogland this paint is highly recommended so we'll see
we have picked a color for the front door, it's a violet from the sweet violets out back
and a secondary paint color from another violet.......so i need to get to the paint store with the flowers to have the formula matched
i may try to talk bernie into putting some molding on the door so that i can paint both the violets on it
(one is lighter and one is darker and i love them)
we need to decide on hardware colors too for the door, as we need new...... and with the purple i would like a white silver, but we're so used to polished brass.....hmmmmmm
on saturday, bernie raked up the driveway and the deck, while i worked more in the garden.......weeding season is here.
he also brought me a nice large box of books *used* from the sale at betterworldbooks.com, (thank you susan) mostly ghost stories !!!!
we spent a quiet weekend as three furry little culprits conspired to unplug the phone! which wasn't discovered until sunday
got laundry done, played with ducks and budgies and cats........(chickens were too busy doing their whole chickeny thing)
bernie put in the first movie of the deathly hollows again, this time i am pleased to say i sat through about 75 % of it....that's fantastic for me........i had to keep asking him about stuff though as he's watched it like 4 times and i barely have watched it once
i think this one and the first one are my favorites but i didn't like the dance scene....it was like WTF?
and what's up with ron calling harry 'mate' all the time
i ordered more yarn......in honor of MDSW.......which we didn't go to... it was on sale! two ella rae in i think 119
and two different color ways of araucania itala multy one in oranges/browns and one in browns (to match two coats i have>?) well they were on a serious sale..... the itala was like 12 a skein!
and the ella rae was about 15 so i did well.- free shipping too.....
i am thinking i got enough fingering for lace for a while no?
although some silk lace weight would be good too........don't you think?
i have quite a few in the line up and just added liliiflora by lilygo to the queue.
i think i'd like to do batik first though. then one of the others that look so very good.
i've taken to buying enough yarn to do a hat to match so i don't look like a total bag lady
anyway folks i am going to start my day, as i got the sander out to do the rough/finish sanding.....and i can't wait to see this painted
if i can get through this today i am going to SO be fired up about the deck/studio trim painting which will make me so happy as it's been all chippy and peeling for a long time now
i also moved my chair and broke a window out there saturday morning, so i need to take care of that too this week
oye
ttyl
vi
Wow you were busy!
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