project queue
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 8:29PM This post could be about my knitting queue, which grows more extensive the longer I sit here. By the time you're done reading this, I'll have two more sweater projects hanging over my head.
It could be about my recipe queue, which is expanding my waistline as we speak.
Hello, stretchy yoga pants? It's me. The girl from yesterday?
I need you.
It could be about the many, many projects this beast has forced me to undertake, mostly in the form of paint touchups, shoe repair, and accessory replacement.
Horsedog? Why? Why so cute? Why so bad?
Why so kissable and snuggly? Why so destructive and enormous?
She's at the kennel right now. I miss her doggy smell and her snoring.
Instead, I'll give you an update on my dining room. It's nearly finished. Just waiting for a few things that I can't do myself, like moving the location of a radiator. I can tell you that there are no longer 650,000 paint swatches on the walls, and that approximations of these colors are present in great quantity.
Wish I could point you to a color number. Sadly, being who I am, I had to tweak and mix and fix and perfect until I got the shade I wanted.
It's a sickness. Have pity.
Here are some other projects I've got queued up.
I have never owned a headboard. I think I'm old enough now, I've earned my stripes in life. How cool are these, made out of vintage doors?
I just need to either locate a door that will fit the width of my king size bed, or figure out a way to combine more than one door.
Secondly, I cannot tell you how much I want one of these. Preferably with mosquito netting on the front and a fire pit just outside.
I need a platform to put it on. And I either need to locate an old canvas tent -- perhaps from a military surplus source -- or find a place to buy canvas yardage.
I could even bring it inside when the weather gets too cold here, which will be in in about eight weeks. I have an unfinished basement, but the ceilings are tall, and this could be a way to cozy it up, with a rug, a space heater, an old sofa, and mountains of books. What kid wouldn't want to get lost in a reading tent?
Heck, what GROWN UP wouldn't want to get lost in a reading tent?
I have two dressers that are both potential candidates for repurposing as a bathroom vanity.
My plumbing skills are...sketchy, at best. I'm thinking I can keep the existing water lines, disconnect the faucet, install the new vanity, and then...call someone to help me, because my plumbing skills are sketchy. At best.
I have a library table that looks a lot like this, except it's currently in a 1980s honey oak color. Perhaps it needs to be turquoise.
And my back entry way is in dire -- DIRE -- need of reorganization. I have an old bookcase that I could remove the doors from, paint it up, and assign the young 'uns some kind of storage bin, like this. Especially with "MOM, I CAN'T FIND MY OTHER __________(mitten, boot liner, skate sock, coat sleeve, half of my brain)!" season fast approaching. (Please tell me you have "MOM, I CAN'T FIND MY OTHER __________" season at your house too.)
Of course, I have about 500 other projects in the queue. But these are at the top of the "Actually attainable before retirement" list.
For sources on my project ideas, you can click on each picture. And if you'd like an invite to Pinterest, send me an email at threeirishgirls AT gmail DOT com (or use the contact button in the upper right), and I'll send you one. You can follow me, if you like. I'm Yarnista.
What projects are you working on?
Reader Comments (12)
I have "Mom, I can't find my other __________!" season now. It's always that season here. But now I know what I'm going to do with the extra basket from the sets that I bought to store the kids' toys in--there's one in each set that won't fit on the shelves, and the kids' shoes are small enough for them. They're going on the antique washstand's lower shelve in the entry way for shoes! Thanks!
And right now, I need to be working on my "avoid Sharon's Pinterest boards" project, or I'll never get anything</> done. Ever again. ;-)
I'm working on a Yellow Submarine themed redecoration of my bathroom. I can't afford to completely gut it and start from scratch, so I'm going to work with the harvest gold sink instead of fighting it.
I also need to paint three rooms in my house.
For the bathroom vanity idea - that would totally work, but I recommend cutting out a significant chunk of the back of the vanity before you install it so that you have easy access to things down there when you install the sink and reconnect the plumbing, and to repair it later. Replacing sinks/faucets is pretty straightforward, and flexible piping can replace what you've got to work with a new vanity, although with the age of your house I wouldn't make any promises... have you found creative plumbing in other places???
Being newly retired after teaching middle school for 26 years, I have a to do/want to do list longer that I (or my husband) want to think about. We will be blowing up our bathroom and will be needing a new vanity, can I borrow/have (since I wouldn't be giving it back) yours?
Also, is it safe to assume that horsedog isn't pregnant? I was so looking forward to puppy pictures. Oh well, probably for the best.
Smiles,
My current "project" is getting myself motivated to re-do a guest bathroom.
Off-subject: Are there plans to dye some more Columbine for The Loopy Ewe? So beautiful, and I missed it!
You can have my old vanity, Cheryl!
Horsedog had something happen. We don't know what, the vet can't figure it out, but there are no more puppies. :(
Gwen, do you mean Sweet Home, Colorado? We will hopefully do more soon!
Sharon - Yes! All of my favorite colors in one gorgeous skein!! I can't believe I missed it, but I hope you do LOTS more. See what happens when you spend your time knitting rather than stalking the updates? Let that be a lesson! ;-)
Yarnista, for your bed, you can do what I'm doing in my guest room. I'm going to my local salvage and purchasing a pair of old worn out peeling white doors and just leaning them against the wall as a headboard. Cheap, easily able to buy a third door for a king bed, and easy!
Nicole
I LOVE the turquoise bookshelf with the chartreuse buckets -- inspiration for a new colorway???
8+ years into a total basement finishing project. Newest part of the project is making a 'closet office' for me. Maybe I need to get off the internet and actually work down there. Love getting ideas and inspiration from you.
About that bedhead idea: Buy a few different old doors - whatever ones 'speak' to you, go vertical instead of horizontal, staggering their heights. Attach them together, side-by-side, mayhaps trimming the bottom even. Lean against wall, attach to wall, or attach to bed frame. For finishing, either leave them in their lovely, aged condition, or finish in whatever colours or stains you choose. Different doorknobs might be a nice touch. Have fun!
Oh, and thanks. I'm now obsessed with the yellow-painted floor with big white stencils (pinned to your Pintrest board). Is it wrong to make "crappy wood floor suitable for painting" a primary requirement in seeking a new living space?