Don't do this.

When you are painting almost every room in you house. Watch where you lay your sweatshirt.

Gabriel

This is my cousin Gabriel.


He says I take too many pictures of him.









What do you think?

The front door

What the front door looked like yesterday.



Early this morning Keith took off the door knobs.


Gabe sanded the doors.

Then we started priming the doors for paint. We debated for a long time about stripping and staining the door or painting the door. In the end we decided that the door was just too far gone to try and stain it again.


So a lot of painting was done. My mom and Gabe did most of it.



This is after one coat of primer.

More pictures tomorrow.

Lori

This is Lori. She is married to Keith. They live in Minnesota.



One of the things I like about Lori is that she can roll with the punches. She also gets my sarcastic sense of humor and is very easy to be around.



Take this workcation she is taking here in California. Lori has lots of friends and family. Lots of people she could be taking time off with and going to Mexico or Tahiti or the Grand Canyon (you should hear her cell phone ring off the hook). She could have gone anywhere you don't have to stain, varnish, and clean up all day long.


Instead Lori decided to take time off and come be with us.

She makes trips to the Home Depot fun. She can whip up blueberry muffins from scratch before I have even had my first cup of coffee in the morning. She has made everything run around here this week and for that we can't thank her enough.

Lori is special. We are lucky to have her in the family.

With our crazy family, I am just glad she likes us.





Thanks Lori!!

Wednesday Night Fire

Tonight we had a fire with all the scrap wood we cut up over the last few days.




I had some fun playing around with my camera.






And I took these creepy pictures of Gabe.



Goodnight.

More photos of the living room

This was the inspiration for our red wall.


We (and by we I mean my aunts and my mom since I have no decorating ability whatsoever) are just starting to decorate around the new red (Raspberry Truffle) wall.


We also have 2 red (raspberry truffle) alcoves to decorate.


Also a new set up behind our couch. We got rid of the shelf system and are keeping just a low table behind the couch. I think the girls are going out shopping today. More pictures to come.

Wax on the wall fix

How to remove candle wax from a wall.



To get the wax off the wall, first we (and by we I mean Lori) used a hair dryer to melt the wax, then when it was in liquid form we (Lori) wiped the wax off the wall.

Then we (Lori) used a cleaner to get the oil off the wall.



Then we (my mom) repainted the wall. It was an easy fix (for me since I didn't do anything). I think we (me) will be on the look out for a candle snuffer to avoid future problems.