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?