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vanillafluffy

I'm thankful for my friends

Nov 24, 2009 16:50

This morning, I had a call from Schnauzerland: S and T have invited me to dine with them on Thursday at the Radisson. Oo-la-la, oui, oui! C'est posh! They had me there two years ago and it was awesome. Ice sculptures and a piano player for atmosphere and massive quantities of excellent food. I'll tote a massive bag and plenty of Tupperware...maybe ( Read more... )

clean house, thanksgiving, diy, schnauzerland

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pwcorgigirl November 24 2009, 23:24:28 UTC

Yah! for cleaning and home decorating and a new cheap bookcase.

I'm off work until next Tuesday morning and have plans for painting the upstairs bathroom. The Habitat Restore paint worked great in the downstairs bath so I'm looking forward to it.

vanillafluffy November 25 2009, 00:27:00 UTC

Painting...oh God, to be able to paint! The only room that has a snowball's chance is the master bath...I've got a gallon of "oops" paint scored from Home Depot* quite a while back...I just need to clean and prep. Hmm, maybe in February, when I'm in the mood to work up some body heat!

* It's blue-violet and will go with the Blue Hawaii/bright Caribbean thing I've got going in there.

pwcorgigirl November 25 2009, 00:49:46 UTC

It rains much of the winter here, and that's perfect weather for painting small rooms. :)

By the time I was done mixing up the Habitat paint, I had a green that's slightly bluer than the walls of the hospital on House for the downstairs bath. Green is Corgiguy's favorite color and he loves this shade. The upstairs bath will be a Tuscan yellow. I started with a quart of paint the color of ballpark mustard and mixed it with cream and sandstone until it toned down to something warm and rich instead of eye-popping.

The remaining paint was pumpkin and burgundy, and I stirred bits of it in with a lot of white and some more sandstone to get terra cotta for the kitchen, which is now a too-pink-for-my-taste peach.

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vanillafluffy November 25 2009, 00:28:57 UTC

For me, housekeeping is not unlike Florida gardening. You whack at it til you run out of energy, pause to catch your breath, and by then it's all grown back!

cbtreks November 25 2009, 00:08:49 UTC

Do you do Fly Lady? (I might've asked once but sadly, I've forgotten.) I don't follow her very closely but the 15 minutes at a time thing is genius.

What are nasty 1990s colors? I'm not recalling what was fashionable back then. Probably because I wasn't!

vanillafluffy November 25 2009, 00:35:43 UTC

The colors are muddy pastels, in this case mostly green and greige. I'm doing fall tones, because that seems to be what's coming together, but given carte blanche, my palette would be more along the lines of Fiestaware, bright, happy colors.

I'm subscribed to Flylady (for about the 3rd time since 2001), which helps me not beat myself up more than I do. I agree about the 15 minutes---WHEN I can focus for that long.