The drywall in the studio is mudded, sanded, primed, and painted. Shelves have been installed and secured. I've unpacked most of my boxes of art supplies, reference books, tools, paper, etc. khryseos has set up his fabrication bench and his wax table. He's started to unpack boxes of tools and organize them on shelves, pegboard, etc. My drafting table ( Read more... )

Holly Carp, what a weekend!

• In a three-day frenzy, we cleaned the house, and I mean CLEANED. ALL the laundry is done, including the weird costume stuff and have-to-be-washed-alone blankets and whatnot. DUSTING happened, people.
• In addition to the cleaning, I cooked enough food for a small army, including: smoked ribs, turkey, and homemade barbecue ( Read more... )

I think... I'm done mudding the walls. Tomorrow I can begin sanding, and look for places to do detail clean-up with the mud ( Read more... )

This week, I am teaching myself how to tape and mud drywall.

That... pretty much covers it. If you need me, I'll be in the basement, covered in joint compound.

Over the last week, I've finished priming the guest room, put on two coats of base colour (a soft caramel gold), and today, while khryseos and the Bonnie Pirate Laddie finish the garage shelves, I'm doing the texturing overlay glaze thing ( Read more... )

We've run into a new and exciting adventure in home ownership... our office (a.k.a. the Entropic Command Center) runs three tower PCs, a laptop, cable modem, and router. And someday, we hope to add the scanner and printer back into the mix, and maybe even a copier. Last night, the door to this room was closed all night, and I swear it must have ( Read more... )