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  Caroline Kwas May 16, 2011 at 3:26pm

  Sounds like how I discovered faux finishing..I leaned against my freshly painted wall in my t-shirt and liked the way it looked!
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  Terri Drake May 16, 2011 at 1:55pm

  I can remember a painting job I did on the floor of a bedroom turned studio years ago. It was a disaster, or so I thought. A friend came to visit and just oohed and aahed over the floor wanting to know where I found the "weathered" boards for the floor, she just had to have them (she is a recycle, antique nut from the word go)! Imagine her surprise when I told her that I had painted the floor and after a week of drying time the paint easily scratched off and into the wood thus the retro farmboard look. She still doesn't believe that story as her efforts to duplicate what I had achieved just never seemed to come out to her liking.

  Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
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  Caroline Kwas May 16, 2011 at 1:04pm

  LOL!  I'll just be happy with a few extra bucks so we could put in a sod lawn and forget this Sisyphean task of trying to grow a lawn in Florida...and maybe a new easel with a marine winch!
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  Ann Marie Crosmun May 16, 2011 at 12:37pm

  I think that Holmes would just throw up his hands and think that I belong on the hoarders show (since nothing is in it's proper place). Do wish that I had (as the line from 'Fiddler')-'servants day and night', ah, if I were a rich man.......
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  Caroline Kwas May 16, 2011 at 11:45am

  Wow, your house sounds like a candidate for Holmes on Homes...as for me, I spoke too soon and the "scratch resistant" paint is anything but.  We put fuzzy bumpers on the bottom of all the outdoor furniture, and they left black indentations in the paint (isn't it supposed to be dry after 4 days??!!).  Moved my easel and put a nice long sccccrrrraaaaapppe in it.  Dog's nails scratch it!!! Looks like its ten years old after four days. So yep, gotta pressure wash the two coats off, then do it right- go to Sherwin Williams.  Sigh.  Back to the living room with no light.
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  Ann Marie Crosmun May 16, 2011 at 11:34am

  Oh how I feel your pain.....what had started out as a simple "let's move the washer & dryer upstairs", has turned into; expanding the closet to fit those two, moving a bedroom wall, so a living room wall had to be cut into for the water lines, resurfacing the hardwood flooring, regrouting the leaking shower, patching the holes in the ceiling from the shower, pulling up the kitchen floor to get rid of the speed humps that have formed from the dripping water, so oh well, what the heck, let's just rip out the entire kitchen--displacing everything to every room in the house---oh my goodness--where do we sleep? Thank the stars we have a toaster & a hot plate! But, this does mean that the refrigerator that has been over taking the dining room for the last 16 years will now actually fit into the kitchen--which might be finished by the end of June. I need some time and space to work on my jewelry---where are the powers that be, that can grant me my three wishes? Surely I have earned them by now? Give me some drugs, a nap, and maybe even a massage, and all will be well. Can't wait 'til Thursday -it's my birthday & we are going to take the day off (go to the Melting Pot, and take a picnic dessert to my grandfathers band-mate, Kay Kaisers' grave site--odd, but tons of fun). But, even through all of this, my creative mind is still trying to come up with new designs--just can't get back to my 'area'--it's full of dining room stuff! Oh well, tomorrow is another day ;-) Sorry this got so long (I think that it's the fumes from the sewer line that they are pumping outside on the street).....ah, sweet mysteries of life, so glad I found you!!
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  Caroline Kwas May 13, 2011 at 9:13am

  Really, I'm not kidding...
  
  
  
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  Leslie Christopher Bookout May 12, 2011 at 11:44pm

  Ha, ha! "Magic" I love it!
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  Caroline Kwas May 12, 2011 at 11:38pm

  The next color lighter on the paint chip was actually called Fairy Dust!  So, I suppose, yes, Tinkerbell paid me a visit!
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  Leslie Christopher Bookout May 12, 2011 at 11:18pm

  Sooo. Sprinkling fairy dust works?