I'm Excited

The sun is up and Mr. MySpareTime and I

have another long weekend of projects to finish.

As I told you on Tuesday, we are going to be doing

some spray painting.

No not that kind of spray painting!

This kind of spray painting.

We are renting a spray painting machine

and we will start this bad boy on Saturday morning.

Today we will be filling the seams and sanding the plywood floor,

moving a few electrical outlets, caulking the paneling

and taping off anything we don't want covered in

cream paint.

So come back on Tuesday and hear all about our

great success or our fiasco as spray painters!

Oh, I almost forgot, something exciting is about to happen in the
month of June!  I am taking the Creative Challenge from
KristalNorton.com
{that is 30 days of creativity}
Stay tuned for more!

Thanks for stopping by!

I'm Draggin'

Here it is Tuesday already, where did the weekend go?

It seems like I just posted that we were going to

start painting the studio and the holiday just flew by!

Well we did it!

The outside painting is finished and I love how it turned out.

{Don't want to give away too much, just wait for the big reveal}

We whipped right through the prepping and painting on Saturday and then

decided to get started on the inside. {to make up for falling behind}

I had planned to just empty the studio of all the stuff we had in there.

These are the things to work on for the show




Now if this doen't look like something off
the show "Hoarders" I don't know what does.





 

Mr. MySpareTime was moving electrical lines and taking down lights.
That didn't take too long so we pulled up the floor and

cleaned it {this was an unexpected project}

Before we could move any further we really needed to pull all

our set up stuff in and see where we wanted it to go, then

Mr. MySpareTime could move electrical outlets or add a few

and see where the new lights were going to go.

We have a few minor things to do in here before the painting

begins.  We have decided to rent a spray painter, 

{never use one before} so this will be exciting in a

train wreck sort of way!

Our goal is to have this project finished by next Sunday.

Stop by next week and see how it turns out!

Thanks for stopping by.

Work Day

As promised, today is a work day.

Mr. MySpareTime and I will be finishing up the studio facelift this weekend!

By the time you read this I will have already started on the prep work and then

comes the paint.  I love to paint, it is instant gratification.  Out with the old

and in with the new.  My mother painted all the time.  I think it gave her

a feeling of a new fresh beginning.

I was hoping to have this whole studio finished, inside and out, by Memorial Day

but my work timeline hardly ever works.  {I think I can get way more finished

than is humanly possible} So I need to push it a little harder to get caught up.

Also, today I was over at PrimMart and Kristal from Rags-n-Tags was

talking about a new blog challenge she is starting.  It is about spending

30 days to change your view on life.  She has three things she wants to

change in her life and has asked people to join in on her creative journey. 

I wonder if this would help me get started on the craft show stuff?  I know I

am not SuperWoman and my only super power is sarcasim, so maybe I

need a kick in the pants to really motivate me. 

{sorry had to laugh when I saw this!}

To tell you the truth, when I saw all the stuff in the shed I was ready to

start crafting right then, I had forgotten all that was in there just waiting on me.

So check back next week and see if I took Kristal's Creative Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Looking Back

Do you ever go back and read your own blog?

I did this morning and it put me in a state of shock!

I am so far behind on my crafting that it isn't even funny.

By this time last year I was already finished with my Halloween

stuff and moving full speed ahead with other things on

the old drawing board.

Well I am officially behind!

I have been so busy trying to get the house in shape that the

crafts have been put on the back burner.

 

Mr. MySpareTime and I worked out butts off this weekend on the

studio makeover. We got a lot accomplished, but like everything else

I always wish we could have done more!

I am not good at keeping the camera handy so I have finished pictures

not transition pictures.

We replaced all the trim on the studio

Took out an old air conditioner and replaced all the back siding

Removed and replaced this fence

and got this place ready for paint!

Also had a few minutes {OK, maybe more than a few}

to play with the grandbaby!

Mr. MySpareTime is leaving on a business trip in a few minutes

and when he returns we will get this project finished.

I will also have a craft checklist ready.

So my pledge is to start crafting and to stop reading

old blog posts, they're scary!

Thanks for stopping by.

Say Goodbye

Since Mr. MySpareTime and I have nothing to

do most days {wink,wink} I thought we

needed to give my little studio a face lift!

This little Shed {as she is called} was built many years

ago when we made birdhouses.  We paid cash for it

to be built and I thought I was living in tall cotton when

we got her finished.  It was a place I could make a mess

and didn't have to worry about cleaning before I made dinner.

{Yes, my first work room was the kitchen.}

A place all my own!

She has seen better days and the Texas heat and humidity

 gets the better of everything!  The structure is sound

and very well built, but the paint job is faded and the back

 needs some repair from water damage.

So say goodbye to the little shed because this weekend she

will be having some work done.  We are going to replace

the siding on the back and replace any of the trim pieces that have

split or gotten damaged.  With three boys using it as a

"man cave" it has stories it could tell!

We are going to change the look a little and get it ready for

our Holiday Trunk Show in October.  So today we start

the transformation!

Also, today is my middle son Andrew's birthday!

He is my most challenging child.  Full of brutal honesty,

imagination, humor, adrenaline junkie and softie all rolled into one.

Happy Birthday, Drew, we love you.

Thanks for stopping by.