Today So Far

Well I believe I have stopped work for a while today. I ended up bashing myself in the face with the nursery's box. Patch feels bad because it happened while he was barking at me for working on something other than the Greenleaf. I was in the middle of setting the floor in place but one edge was a tad to wide so I was turning the box upside down to extract and trim it.

It's going to bruise for sure, but my teeth are intact. Interior bleeding was minimal as well.

I did manage to not only still get the floor in the nursery, but also finished the flooring in the Greenleaf. Here's the nursery floor. I managed to not bleed on anything. That makes me happy.
The chair and a bookcase are currently drying in the garage from being sprayed with varnish. A few accessories are finished and in their places, and I whipped up a quick and easy throw rug for the upstairs. Here's the pup of the hour on the throw rug.


This one was easy. I found a scrap of upholstery fabric leftover for a project my mom did a while back. It was mostly squared up already so I just pulled out threads on the short ends to make fringe and puled a few from the long ends to even it out. Then I smeared the edges with Fray Check (love that stuff). After it dried I trimmed the fringe to length and cleaned up the long edges.The baseboards for the first floor are cut. I need to stain them and the pieces for a bed, but the maintenance crew are mowing. Grass bits are flying everywhere, so no staining until they are done and the grass has settled.

So I guess I will go read a book or work on the stitched rug for a while. I really don't feel like doing much. Heh. People are going to think FH hit me if this swells anymore. Good thing he was at the office. ;-)

If I get anymore done today I will let you know.

Monday's Progress

First I want to thank everyone who helped me choose a floor for the nursery. I think I just needed to know I was leaning in the right direction. The wooden floor has been given about three coats of spray varnish.
It's shiny now. :-)

Sunday night Patch was disgusted that I hadn't done anything, so pulled out one of my favorite books with pictures and made him suffer through a photo shoot.
Doesn't he look disgusted? ;-) It shut him up though. I use the same trick on the cats when they will not leave us alone.

The remaining floor I needed for the Greenleaf got prepped and cut to fit yesterday. I will be installing it today. I also got the rest of the baseboard cut for the nursery. I'll get a picture of it later.

I also started painting that chair yesterday. I wanted it to look like the stain and varnish were rubbing off with age.

I started with a coat of gesso over the whole piece. When that was dry I used the stain packet from the Chrysenbon kit over the gesso, but only on the chair frame. The result was exactly what I wanted. Then I painted the seat red.

At this point I was starving, but Patch didn't want me to stop working. So I bribed him. ;-)

After everything dried really well I gave the whole thing a coat of watered down black paint.
It really makes the faded bits stand out and accents the seat's details. Patch approves. I also made him a box of biscuits. Hopefully that will give me ammunition later when he complains.
I still have some laundry to do, but my kitchen no longer looks like a four year old tried to make pancakes in it. I'll see what I can get done today in between occurrences of housework.