Leaderboard

I have never framed art, full confession I'm taking our photo to Hobby Lobby to get them to do it. We have a really ridiculously expensive but ridiculously lovely black and white photo printed on photo board instead of paper that I need to get framed. This is htat art piece I fell hard for fyi. https://www.etsy.com/listing/69376478/blue-beach-starfish-original-seascape?utm_source=Pinterest&utm_medium=PageTools&utm_campaign=Share

Karen, good point. My mother was a 3 year R.N., and she could not emphasize enough getting out of bed and taking short walks, as soon as possible with the doctor's OK, to avoid getting blood clots. Chrissy, my thoughts and prayers are with you as you continue your recovery. Your friend, Monica

Dear Bree and Emma, May hire you girls to do my framing for my art. Am amazed how expensive it is to get my art framed!

We're not building anything new in the kitchen, we're painting over the ugly cabinetry and counters, and the tutorials require sanders. It's a large sanding area, and Nikki has already informed me he's not doing an area that big for multiple times (you have to sand the entire area each coat of the cement) if we go the faux cement veneer by hand. But all the brands look the same to me, none of them stand up and scream 'I"M QUALITY I"LL LAST!". None of them even look that sturdily built, and I guess sometimes I live in my childhood and want to buy thing that will last for 30 years like grandpa did. We're first sanding to rought up the counter to increase adhesion, then sanding for smoothness of what we put on it before we seal, not to strip anything. The nifty thing is we found a diy one for painting the cabinets, no pre-sanding needed, just use chalk pant and it adheres fine, covers well, and the site did a two years follow up and it lasts. SCORE! And I can't really help sand thanks to carpal tunnel I picked up from years of retail and my insurance is unwilling to pay for surgery since Im mostly functional, just hurty on repetitive action things which I no longer do to make a living since the last 11 years I was working were in an office instead of the scanning/cooking tasks that caused it, so Nikki gets his way here. And in the worst case zombie apocalypse scenario I can use it to be a zombies brain in. The saw is to build the built-in bookshelving and possible lock-in wood wall slats(light weight locking slats that just go on over your existing walls and we can easily fix the living room walls!) to cover the panel issue in the living room that will require a LOT of precision cutting thanks to some really unfortunate architectural choices in there.. And the craft table Nikki wants to build that folds up and is really small when we are using the spare room as a guest room. Both of which will also require large scale sanding after finish apparently, in addition to the saw for him to cut all the pieces. It's a lot of wood cutting as I understand him tell it. Would it help if I pm'd you the links to some of the projects?

Good to hear you are doing well. Take care of yourself over the next few weeks and do get out and take short walks.