Time

Today is Monday, June 6th, 2011.  I have been married to my hubby for 36 years.  Good Lord!  We met on May 1st, 1975.  On May 21st, he proposed to me.  We married on June 6th, 1975.  No one thought it would last.  Ha ha.  Last laugh and all that.

I have been replacing the heddles on Lulu.  The ones that were on there were so filthy that every time I touched them, I got black dirt on me.  ICK.  I ordered them 100 at a time, but the last 2 bunches, I got 500 at a time.  I will have 250 on each of four shafts.  I hope that's enough.  If not, I haven't thrown away the old ones.  Maybe I can wipe them down, and put them back on if I need them.  But I don't plan on doing anything very fine and large.  Fine threads aren't my favorite to work with.  8/2 is about as thin as it gets for me.  Call me chicken.

Actually, I just want to have FUN with my weaving.  It has progressed from doing towels, and table runners, to wanting to do some things that may, or may not, work out for me.

I'm going to have to decide if I want to try the rug weaving, or make some fabric to turn into clothing. 
We went to JoAnns Fabric and Crafts today, to look at their dress forms.  They were expensive.  And not very well made, not what I expected for $219.  I had a 50% off coupon.  I decided against the dress form.

I have other things I want.  Besides, when I was looking online, I found a way to make a dress form that is exactly what your body is.  Maybe, if I have a dress form shaped just like my body, and I have to stare at it every day and try to fit woven fabric to it to make clothing, I'll actually LOSE weight.  Maybe it's the jolt I need.  I have to have help making the dress form tho, so getting together with my friend is going to be tricky as she has a busy schedule the next two weeks, then she goes away for a week!

The other thing I want is a Wolf Pup loom.  There is a used one on Ravelry.  It's in PA.  The lady said she's willing to wait to sell it to me.  It's new - never been used, only a year old.  She never even got it put totally together.  I'm excited.  But I have to come up with $850.  So a yard sale is in the works.  I have some things to sell.  Maybe, if I can get half, I can get the other half from hubby and I won't feel guilty.  If I told him I really wanted this loom, he'd let me have it.  If you've read my blog, you know we have a big expense in the works with getting the septic distribution box fixed.....but hoping that we'll get reimbursed for it thru a claim.  We'll see.  I'm holding positive thoughts.

The other thing I need is a work station to do my hand-made cards at.  I MISS making my cards!  I want to get back to it.  But I don't want to spend a lot of money doing this work station.  Maybe, if I get back to the cards, I won't enjoy it as much as I think I did, and I'll get rid of a lot of the stuff at the yard sale.  So for now, I guess I just need to make space, make some cards, and send them out and see how I feel about it.  Not sure I love the rubber stamps anymore.  I do like using photographs for cards.  I like papers.  I would love a die cut machine, but again, I don't want to spend the money on one. So that's out.  Unless by some miracle someone is selling one really cheap at some point. 
I do wish hubby liked going yard sale searching.  He doesn't.   But then again, I can't blame him as I need to get rid of a LOT of the junk in the basement now, and maybe then, finding things I really want would be something he'd be willing to do.

So there it is.  I need a job.  LoL. Not sure I could handle a job, but there is one in the paper I might put effort forth to apply for.  Problem is, in bad weather, I couldn't get to it.  Everything is too far away.  But I'd love some spending money.  Now, if I could make money doing my crafts, I'd be one happy camper!

Anywho, I got half of my new heddles onto the shafts.  I may go up now and do the other half.  Hubby is watching hockey.  Oh boy.

Martha

Today

Today was a good day.  It didn't start out that way - I was in one of "those" moods.  I thought when I hit menopause, I'd stop being so moody and having PMS.  HA!  
But, I sat in my room, did some visualization, and I felt better.  I told myself, I am sunshine.  I immediately felt happier!  I have tried to carry that thru the day.
After showering and getting ready to go to a picnic later, I sat at my rigid heddle loom, and I finished off the colorful warp that was on there:

It is 87" long (if my math is right) and 17" wide.  Before washing.  It's 100% cotton so it WILL shrink.  It is in the washer right now, in hot wash cold rinse.  I sewed each end so it wouldn't come unraveled.  It's not perfect. There are booboos in it.  I don't care.  It's for me.  I love the colors and even tho I don't know exactly what I'll make, I'll be happy with it!  I could make a ruana, or I could make place mats.  I could make a tote.  That was the original plan.  It might change. 
I'm going to sell my rigid heddle loom. I dislike weaving on it.  Because it was the least expensive loom to buy at the time I wanted to weave, I bought it.  Now, I hope I can get a couple of hundred dollars for it but we'll see.  I saw someone else was selling one on Craigslist for over $300.  She has a carrying bag with it, I don't.  But I do have everything else that goes with it.
I have spotted a used Wolf Pup LT loom for sale, on Ravelry.  I want that loom.  It's new.  Not used.  Being sold by someone that bought it a year ago, but hasn't used it and probably won't.  YES!  It's a lot less than new.  I'd be happy with the 18" weaving width for a lot of things.  It wouldn't have to have a long warp on it either.  Or it can have.  It has 4 shafts and 6 treadles.  I can do 4 shaft designs on it, or, I can do simple designs on it.  I can't afford a Saori loom, but, I could afford this.
That all depends tho....I have to sell some things, and ask hubby for the money.  With the septic issues going on this week (see previous post if you want to read the depressing news), which will cost over $2000, I hate to ask.  But gosh, I don't know if I can pass up this deal.....the loom is in PA, and the seller will be as far South as Frederick Maryland the end of the month.  I can drive there!  It's a beautiful drive.  That's where the MD Sheep and Wool Festival was held that I attended not long ago.  
I am currently the hostess for a table mat exchange.  Having all the mats sent to me, I've had an awesome time seeing what everyone has done.  So many different ways to weave red, white and blue!  I am going to take photos when the last one arrives (hopefully Monday) and I will post here.  Then I get to split them up, and send them to their new owners.  So much FUN!  :-)
Today we also went to a picnic for the therapy dog group.  It was fun.  Hubby went.  There was a pool in the back yard, and I dunked my legs.  I didn't take a bathing suit.  I won't be caught in public in one right now.  But it sure felt good on my legs!  I told the woman who owns the pool and who's home the picnic was at, that if at any time she want's company to be in the pool with, to call me, I'd be right over!  LoL
The heat and the sun got too much for me.  At one point, I had to go indoors.  I can't take the heat like I used to.  Not that I was ever good at taking it.  But it affects me more now.  Stupid heart issues.
We didn't take the dogs.  We ate too much good food.  There were even home made whoopie pies!  They were yummmmmmm!  I have a recipe of my mothers, but I haven't used it.  Might have to give it a go.
Being out in the sunshine sure helps my moods.  I heard that the middle of the week is going to be unbearably hot - near 100. NOT good. On Weds I'm supposed to go with my good friend to meet up with some other ladies we used to work with at a veterinarian clinic.  We're supposed to have a picnic lunch outside of the Lorton Workhouse, which used to be a prison and is now an artists' work place.  It's awesome to see all the art work - and there are weavers there too!  My favorite part.  We'll see how that goes.
Thursday I'm supposed to babysit again.  I don't know how long I'll be able to continue to babysit.  The condo is dark, and very warm.  It's so tiny.  The trip is long.  And it's very tiring on me.  All I do is sit when I'm there.  There's no room to move around.  And the schedule isn't working too well for my daughter.  I don't get there early enough, and I leave too early.  It puts a strain on her, on her hubby, and on the entire day in general.  I think they are going to have to find another source of babysitting soon.  I do wish I was closer, but that's not going to happen.  It is what it is.

Edited to add:  I do love my daughter, and my granddaughter more than words can tell.  I will do anything I can for them.  I wasn't complaining in the paragraph above.  I know that this babysitting gig is not forever, and part of me is very sad about that because I do NOT want to lose touch with my granddaughter.  I love that she still smiles when I show up, and she cuddles with me, and loves me.  I don't get to see her as much as her other Grandma, but I know that I have a special bond with her.  I hope that will never change!

Currently reading Infinite Possibilities, The Art Of Living Your Dreams, by Mike Dooley. I am enjoying it.  
Weaving happy
Martha

Trouble

I've been MIA.  There have been some things going on around here, and I think I let them overwhelm me sometimes.  That's ok. I survive.

Yesterday I took the dogs to get their teeth cleaned.  I went to get my hair cut.  A distraction.  My hair is really short.  I asked for it.  I don't think hubby really likes it, but it's my hair.  I'm the one that was feeling dragged down and like I was wearing a football helmet.  Too much.

The dogs did fine.  Gabbi, the Maltese, the baby, she spent last night coughing all the time.  Like, ALL the time.  It was 1:30 a.m. and it was driving me nuts knowing she was not feeling well, and also that she was keeping me awake.  I finally got up, took Gabbi and Evan (the Papillion) and went into the living room, on the reclining love seat.  I took 2 pillows.  Left hubby in the bedroom to sleep.  I didn't sleep much, and was very uncomfortable.  Within 10 minutes, Gabbi was sleeping soundly with no more coughing. Yes, she has my number.  By the way, the dogs sleep on the floor in the bedroom, but they have it really good in there.  There are several dog beds, with an old store-bought quilt over them, and they each have their own flannel blankie.  So they don't suffer.

Gabbi is much better today.

On another note, we have had some issues with our septic tank - well, that's not entirely the story - the septic tank is fine.  But, the distribution box is not.  After noticing a sunken hole about eighteen inches wide with water in it (sometimes stinky water), I brought it to hubby's attention about a month ago.  He finally called someone to come check it out.  They did a bit of digging last week, and they said the distribution box is crushed.  Huh?  How the heck did that happen?  Who knows.....they'd be back in a week.   They were supposed to be here yesterday but there was an emergency they went to yesterday (someone in much worse shape than us).  They were coming today.  They showed up at 8:00 - just as I had fallen to sleep in the bedroom.  The digging was taking place right outside the bedroom window.  So I got up, threw cold water on my face, and got dressed.....feeling like I had a hangover.  Not fun.

Pretty soon, hubby came in the house and checked the phone lines.  Oops, the phone line had been cut.  Bummer!  He went back outside after giving me the paperwork with the number to call for repair.  I called.  It'll be next Tuesday before the phone is repaired.  Wow, really?  Yes, we live in the boonies, and there aren't many repair people out here.  We've waited a week before to get the phone lines fixed, but that was when they weren't even at our house - the problem was in town!  

Pretty soon, hubby came back in the house.  He asked for the camera.....uh, that can't be good.  I was right.  The phone company, back 20 years ago when the house was built, had dug the ditch to bury the line, right over the distribution box and the pipes that lead out from the box, distributing (hence the name) the icky water to the drain fields.  The stupid part is, the phone line comes from the direction of the front of the house.  Then it goes beyond the back of the house, and U turns back to connect to the house.  Not the smartest thing I've ever seen.  

Hubby comes in and calls the phone company again.  He gets a really RUDE lady on the phone, and tries to explain what we need - first off, when the repair man comes to repair the line, he needs to bring the proper equipment to dig a new hole to put the line into.  We can't have the line over the distribution box.   Secondly, when he comes, he needs to bring a supervisor or someone so they can see the damage.  She rudely tells us that a supervisor won't come and she can't control whether or not the repair person brings the equipment to dig with.  So we ask her for a way to find out if we can get compensated.  She says hold on....a few minutes later (burning up our cell phone minutes) she comes back and gives us a number to call.  Great.  Then hubby asks her if we can have our phone calls forwarded to the cell phone.  Now mind you, when you call, you have to give them name, address and other information.  What does she say?   We have to give her our account number or tell her what the last paid bill amount was.  REALLY?  Seriously?  Good Lord.  So we give her the info, and the cell phone drops the call!!!!!!!!!  Now you know, they can tell what number you're calling from.  Did we get a call back from her?  Heck no!  No surprise there.

I made the next call.  I wrote down the questions, and asked hubby what he wanted me to get done, and I dialed the number.  Got someone else (third person).  She can see the ticket that says we have a phone out.  I tell her that I need to update that ticket to include that we need the phone line moved, as well as repaired.  She asked why.  I gave her the spiel.  She was pretty nice in the end about helping me.  I got the ticket updated, and we were able to get the story straight, and I explained to her that without the phone line moved, we can't get the septic repaired.  The phone line is right IN the pipe leading out of the distribution box.  

Hubby was able to call the # the lady he spoke to gave him to put in a claim.  It's a government office and the woman was VERY nice.  We told her (on speaker phone) that we appreciated her kindness.  Hopefully the company that covers the claim will send someone out and see the mess, before the company comes back to fix the distribution box.  That will be next week, Tues or Weds (that the septic repair people will be back).  The claim person might be out next week - who knows.  We have photos tho.


I don't know how all this is going to turn out.  I'm praying that Verizon will pay us for the damage, as it will cost about $2200 or more.  Ugh.  On top of the dogs costing more yesterday than we planned on.  Prices going up all over I guess.  

I have some weaving photos.  Only a couple.  This first one is a towel in a set that I'm weaving for my Sister-in-Law, who's coming to visit at the end of the month.  I like this pattern very much.  It's fun, fast, and easy.  Its a simple tie up - shaft one to treadle one, shaft two to treadle two, etc.  I have a four shaft loom.  The threading is 4,3, 2, 1 (from the back of the loom).  The weaving is plain weave (treadle 1 &3, then treadle 2 & 4).  Do that for 18 rows.  The "arrow" portion is woven with shaft 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1, 4.  I'm using my double shuttle which I love because weaving goes REAL fast with it.

This is what's under the loom, on the cloth beam - the previous towels I wove:  See the hint of yellow and red?  Have I mentioned, I love using a white warp because you can make the towels ANY color?  :-)

And then there is this, the warp on the rigid heddle loom.  I have neglected it sorely.  I'm going to bring this loom downstairs today so when I'm down here, I have no excuse not to work on it (and the reason I have time to work on it, later).  This is the kind of weaving I love to do - simple in weave, but colorful.  I started this thinking I'd be making a tote bag.  I don't know if it will be that in the end or not!  But that's ok.  The only thing is that I'm not crazy about weaving on the rigid heddle loom. My plan is to sell it and put that money away.  I want to buy a Wolf Loom, or, if I could afford it, possibly a Saori loom.  We'll see.  Problem with that is, selling this little loom will hardly be a drop in the bucket to getting enough money together to get another loom.  So we'll see.............


My main plan is to use Lulu, the Leclerc floor loom, for rag rug and rag bag making.   The other loom(s) hehe would be for making stuff.  One of my projects is going to be working on a piece that is made from all different types of yarn, and making either a mobious scarf or even a vest or small jacket.  I don't know how much I'll have to make it with.  I'll weave the fabric and then figure it out.  How much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!  I'm so excited to get it started.  


The other thing going on is that I've not been feeling well. I've been extremely emotional, I've been very tired, I have a constant lump in my throat, my allergies are acting up (which I'm convinced is what the lump is about), and I generally have been in a slump.  The weather has been awful - just so hot and humid.  Today was finally better, but I was too exhausted to care.  I can't seem to find a good place mentally to be in  and it's getting worse.  I hate feeling this way - it sucks all my energy and I feel much worse than usual.  I have tried Allegra Non Drowsy - but it made me tired.  I have a tendency to react to medicine the opposite of what it's meant to do to you.  I never said I was normal.  At night I still take one and a half Benadryl - it knocks me out (thank goodness) and I get a good night's sleep, along with almost no snoring.  But I do feel a bit sluggish in the mornings.  I learned to deal with that tho.  It's the rest of it that is making me crazy.  I need a therapist.  But can't afford one.  I need to get weaving so that's my therapy.
That's about it for me and this post.  Nothing like going missing for awhile, then blabbering on and on.  But it's my place to blabber............


More another day when I'm up to it.


Weavin happy.
Martha

Beautiful Saturday

According to some, the world was supposed to come to an end today.  Actually, at 6:30.  It is now 7:18.  Ok, well, I'm still here.  How about you?

Today was a perfect weather day.  I was just outside walking the dogs around, and got bitten by a mosquito.  Ick.   

I had a good day.  I've had a really good week.  A quiet birthday - the big 55.  Yep, the speed limit.  Haha.

I got some weaving done.  It felt really good to get it done.

I talked to hubby about another loom.  I think I want another 4 harness because I've decided I don't want an 8 harness.  Nope.  The more complicated the weave design, the less fun I'm having.  

I'm going to sell my rigid heddle loom.  I don't have fun weaving on it.  

So a smaller floor loom.  Yep.  One I can take to workshops if they come up.  Or to a friends' house to weave together.  :-)

Got to talk to my sister-in-law today.  Spoke to a couple of friends this week.  It's good to have friends.

I've decided this year I'm going to spend more time at home.  I'm going to stop filling my days with running here and there.  I'll spend some quality time with good friends.  I'll spend some good time improving my home.  Weaving.  Getting things organized.  Liking where I live.  

Life is VERY good, and I for one, am very glad it didn't end today.  

I hope you are enjoying your life, as much as I'm enjoying mine. 

I'm one lucky ducky.  :-)

Or licky chicky? 

Or old fuddy duddy?

Smile.  Life is GOOD.

Martha

Where does time go?????

Seriously - does it fly for you, as fast as it seems to for me?  Yikes.
Yesterday was my birthday.  I can now order from the Senior menu at IHop.  I can get discounts at some stores on their Senior Day shopping days.  I'm the speed limit in most places.  The big 55.  Hmmmmm......

This week I got to see my granddaughter.  I love that child.  I just can't explain it.  She is so stinking sweet.  I hope she never changes.  I love the way she looks at me and smiles......I hope that never changes!

I went shopping yesterday and found a frame for my poster, finally.  Almost perfect.  At least I didn't have to cut any of the poster.

We also went to lunch at IHop, but I didn't order off the Senior menu.  LoL.  I just don't know if I'm ready for that.......

Today I went to lunch with my friend Rita.  Tonight, she is supposed to be meeting with a new Real Estate Agent.  I hope this one is a real go-getter and will sell this house of Rita's once and for all.  It's a GREAT house.  I will miss having Rita so close.  She won't move far, but she won't be driving past my house to get home anymore, once she moves, either.  I will miss that.  

I got some weaving done.  Not a lot.  But some.  I'm working on it.  I need to get moving on this warp.  I want to move on.  I don't know to what.

Don't tell hubby but I'm looking for another loom.  I think it's time to try a smaller loom and see if I like it better.  I would like to join a different guild as the one we joined, is spinning and weaving and all kinds of fiber....not really what I was hoping to find.  This other guild is probably just as far away, meets on Sunday afternoons once a month, and focuses on weaving.  That is exactly what I've been wanting. 

I'm also thinking that I may not want to concentrate on complicated weaving.  At one point, I thought I wanted an 8 shaft loom instead of a 4 shaft loom.  Now, though, I have decided I am fine with a 4 shaft loom, and that I wouldn't mind doing more plain weave (easy treadling and could actually be done on a 2 shaft loom) and using more expressive colors and types of yarns.  There is a lot I want to explore.

I still haven't cut my strips for rug weaving.  I have to order a shuttle to use for rug weaving and haven't wanted to spend the money on that.  I keep hoping for a sale!  I guess I'm going to have to break down, and just find the least expensive one, and buy it.  I do want to get started with that.  I want to at least give it a try before I give up on this big loom totally.  I could do some rug weaving on a smaller loom.  But the looms that fold and are transportable - which I think is what I want to have - aren't heavy duty enough to do them a lot.  I would have to decide if I would keep the big loom, or sell it to be able to buy the smaller loom.  Hard to decide......

Anyway, I'm hoping to find one at a decent price and close by.  One that isn't abused, and won't need a bunch of new parts to it.  

Off I go to spend Friday night with the dogs, cat and hubby. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!


Martha

A new week

Life is sure interesting............isn't it?
I got a lot done the last week, but I don't feel like I got a lot done.  Why?
The bathroom is finished.  
Work in progress photos:

As you can see, tons of spackle had to be put up.  Impatience during wall paper removal = not good.

Here are the after photos:

These photos were taken in the early morning with natural light.  The walls look a lot lighter than they do in person.
I'm still getting used to them.  In the last photo, you can see the edge of the bathtub wall - it looks a lot darker now than it did against white walls.  Still not sure I'm going to keep this color........I'm just so used to white.  I know, bland.  But we'll see.  
The bathroom floor needs replacing, but, that'll have to be done at a later time when I can get the $ to do it.


Meanwhile, yesterday, I finally got back upstairs to weave.  I was weaving a complicated treadling sequence and I didn't feel I could do it when I was tired.  Weaving is still too new to me.  
Here is the treadling sequence.  4 5 6 3 4 1 5 6 3 4 5 2 6 3 4 5 6 1 3 4 5 6 3 2
Each treadle had two shafts tied up to it.
I don't think I'll ever do that treadling sequence again. 
I like easy weaving.  I like easy treadling.
I may just start doing more plain weave.
I also want to start cutting the fabric I have, into strips, to use for rugs and bags.  I want to see how I like doing that.  


I am also still searching for the yarn I want, to go with the yarn I already have, to make my shawl, or mobius scarf, or, whatever piece of clothing I'm going to make with it.  I have a feeling, that's not going to happen right away.  It's going to have to be the perfect accompaniment to the variegated yarn.  The next fiber festivals I'll be attending aren't until Sept and Oct respectively.  Whether I can find anything I love before that, I don't know.  I don't think it'll be anything I can find in a store.  But ya never know!


A busier week this week with schedule.  I have plans today (farrier for horses - they are barefoot so no shoes, just trims).  Tuesday is babysitting day.  Wednesday is volunteering at the hospital with Evan.  It's been awhile!  He'll be happy to go.  Thursday, well, Thursday is my birthday. I have to admit, this is the first year I haven't been excited by it.  I usually love my birthday.  Things are different this year.  No excitement.  Not planning anything special.  When hubby asked what I wanted, I said, nothing.  I get to order what I want (within reason) during the year, so I don't need anything.  It's not really how I feel, but it's the right answer.
Friday I've been invited out to lunch by best friend.  We celebrate each others' birthdays with lunch out.  We go out to lunch a lot together.  But, we pay for each other on our birthdays.  We're silly, but it beats trying to find a gift. 
That's it for my plans.  I have really cut back on what I'm doing.  I stopped going to dog classes.  I think Evan really misses it, but he wasn't having a great time there.  He's not much for the other dogs, and stopped enjoying the agility so I decide that the $75 per 4 weeks just was going to go elsewhere.


That's my week in review.  Or preview I guess.
Have yourself a great week - only YOU can decide if you're life is great, or if it isn't.  If it isn't, you're the only one that can decide to change that!


Martha

Score!

This past weekend, on Saturday, I went to the Maryland Sheep and Wool festival.  I had never been before.  I wasn't sure of what exactly to expect - but I had a BLAST.  It was the BEST weather - 72 and sunny and a breeze.  If I weighed less and I didn't hurt so much, I'd have stayed for another 3 hours and looked more.  Oh, and I was with a friend, and she was driving.....so I had to leave when she left.  Hehe.

I picked up some Bamboo yarn.  I LOVE this yarn, and I want to make a piece of cloth that will turn into a jacket/top for myself.  It's the variegated yarn at the bottom of the photo. 

 Also pictured is a new boat shuttle, and some white eyelash yarn that I just could NOT walk away without........there are 2 shanks of it.  3 of the variegated bamboo.  And a poster!  I also got a t-shirt but it went into the laundry and isn't washed yet.  I'll get a pic of that later.

I had a very good time.  I can hardly wait for the next one in September (Berryville, VA) and then in October is the annual festival at Montpelier VA.  

I'm going to be saving my dollar bills, change, anything I can sneak away into my can for spending on fibers............

Right now, I have some towels on the loom. I haven't been able to get to the weaving in about a week.  Last Friday I decided I had to get one of my home improvement projects started.  I started stripping the wall paper in the bathroom. I've detested the wall paper for the entire 6 years we've lived in this house.  One of the things that inspired me to get this started was that I was researching homes for sale for my friend, and I actually got excited about the prospect of moving...........still down this way, but not so far out of the city.  I really hate that it takes between 30 and 45 minutes to get anywhere decent.  Not to mention, it takes that extra 45 minutes to get here once we are off the interstate coming back from visiting the kids up North.  I'd love to scratch off the 45 minutes.............

It won't happen any time soon, but, I figure, why not start now to improve the house, and I'll be able to have it up to snuff when we can put it on the market.  I still have a 5 year plan, and I am going to stick to it.  We are half way thru year one, and I want to have this house ready to put on the market in 5 years.  In 5 years, hubby and I will be 60.  YIKES!  I want to be closer to the city, to the hospital, to the interstate, to the grand baby!  Who doesn't want to be closer to this?

 I mean, really??????????  She's so adorable, and the happiest little one ever. I get a smile like this every time I get there. She's amazing!  And smart.  Yikes.  Are her mommy and daddy in BIG trouble!  hehe

Can you believe she's only 4 months old in this photo????

Oh, back to the story........sorry, I get easily side-tracked!  Hehe
So, I started stripping wall paper on Friday, then left on Saturday to go the MDS&W festival.  I came home, and most of the wall paper was off.  Well, most of the front of the wall paper was off.  My wonderful, impatient hubby decided he'd do it.  Problem is, he did it fast, and it left a TON of the backing of the wall paper behind.  With the glue.  Well, it took a TON of scraping to get that all off, which in turn, made a lot of gouges in the walls.  So, I had to spackle everything.  Got that done yesterday.  It needed 24 hours to dry.  Today I sanded, wiped it down, and tomorrow I will paint with primer.  That will dry overnight and the next day as Thursday will be baby sitting day for grand baby!  
Maybe I'll purchase the paint either tomorrow or Thursday on the way home from baby sitting.  
Friday, I'll get to paint.  Saturday, we'll get to put up the new fixtures.  We will have our bathroom back!  Yay!  This is taking place in the Master Bath.

It's not everything I want to improve in that bath, because the floor needs to be replaced - there are stains on the floor that can't be removed.  So yeah, that'll have to wait because that's more money, and work.  My body is already fighting with me about the climbing up and down ladders and standing on the tub edge to do what I've done.  My knee is killing me.  Not good.  Again, a weight issue.  Gotta get serious and do something about this issue...........anyone got any motivation????

K, so that's about it for this post.  I'll be posting again soon.  I am going to take photos of the unfinished bathroom.  I didn't take "before" photos - I didn't want any reminders of the ugly!  It'll look so much nicer afterward.  :-)

Martha