:: The Last Week of 2014--

 

Hi Y’all   I’ve been on VACATION! 

(cute shoes my daughter got me)

no not really…NOT A REAL VACATION.  But we did NOT have our Littles (ie: the grandkids) this week and there has been one project I’ve been wanting to get done around here for a while! I knew I could not do it with them here.

Our Kitchen floor.

This is what happens when the LITTLES are here AND I TRY AND DO ANYTHING. They want to help!  Last Year, when I was trying to decide what to do with our floor in 2013  and  when HAIDEN HAPPENED…

 

 

Paint was put on the maybe list.  ONE-THIRD of my kitchen is as far as I got with that, THANK YOU HAIDEN.  It didn’t hold up—it didn’t last… and it NEVER SEEMED CLEAN TO ME!   The other TWO-THIRDS was the same way… never seemed clean. 

If you’ve read here for any length of time you know about my bathroom floor.  I covered it in PAPER AND POLYURETHANE almost 3 years ago—come February.  I’m happy to say—it has held up so nicely.  It has taken a lot of traffic and a lot of POOL TRAFFIC in the summer.  Still … it holds. HERE and HERE  

That was the deciding factor.  The durability.

 

So that’s what I’ve been doing this week.  I said it would take 5 days… and thought really…REALLY, it could and I MUST get it done in 3.  It took FIVE!   Over-all I’m pretty pleased with it.  It was hard work.  I wasn’t expecting the cold to come on as fast and cold as it did…and seemingly to LAST!  We pretty much camped out in the back part of the house for 2  of the 5 days… but it was fun!  In a weird—QUIRKY sort of way. ;)

So, there’s no TOP 10 posts for the year… No RE-CAP… none of that.  I’ve exhausted myself and am going to have a rest. (soon, I’ll be having to paint these walls and trim…but not this year!)

Tomorrow NEW YEARS DAY- we have our Annual Family Gathering at my daughters home.  Friday I have her 2 littles for a few hours in the morning (doctors appointments…OH! THAT IS GETTING CLOSE… NEW BABIES WILL BE HERE BEFORE WE KNOW IT! Then Saturday and Sunday--- MORE REST. 

I’ll pop in and show you a few things that took place in the middle of all the PAPERFLOORING… some surprises.  I will also try and get my “how to”  updated.  This being the second floor to paper—I used some new techniques to make it go more smoothly.  KEY POINT:: watch the weather HAS ALREADY BEEN COVERED. ;)

 

‘Til next time, Be Blessed!

HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

           Patricia



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Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.                ~ 2 Corinthians 9:7