{"id":358,"date":"2008-07-13T21:12:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T21:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=358"},"modified":"2008-07-13T21:12:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T21:12:47","slug":"at-the-risk-of-boring-you-all-to-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"At the risk of boring you all to tears…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The desk is finished and it looks GLORIOUS. Definitely some satisfaction in doing it yourself (although it would have been nice to save the grand-and-a-half that we payed the jacka$$ painter to do it). The paint smell is SO strong right now that you can get high from walking into our backyard, but it does look great. We’ll give it a couple of days to “off-gas” and then we’ll put the furniture back out there. I’ll post one last photo once everything is set up again, and then I promise I’ll shut up about the darned deck.<\/p>\n

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The second D.I.Y. agenda item for this weekend was to stain our front door. It is a beautiful wooden door with beveled, leaded glass inserts and sidelites on either side. It’s gorgeous, but it takes the full brunt of the afternoon sun and we hadn’t done a thing to it in the 4 years that we’ve lived here. The polyurethane coating was GONE and the wood was faded and starting to crack. Our house isn’t palatial, but it’s comfy and the front door was certainly not making a good first impression.<\/p>\n

Hubby attacked it with plastic “steel wool” today and then Boy, Girl and I stained it (taking turns). Tomorrow night, Hubby will put a fresh coat of polyurethane on it. It already looks 150% better than it did, even without the polyurethane.<\/p>\n

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Not quite sure why I’ve gotten this home maintenance bug lately, but we do go through periodic spurts like this. Next up: painting Girl’s bathroom a beautiful, rich, dark chocolate brown. She just got brand new “teenager appropriate” bedding that has some really pretty colors in it: burgundy, pumpkin, brown, gold, acid\/lime green and turquoise. It sounds weird, but it’s really pretty. The coordinating shower curtain has the same colors (though it’s a different fabric), so the brown will look very nice. The old salon that I used to go to had chocolate brown paint on the walls in the shampoo room and I always thought that it was really pretty and rich-looking, so that project will be next.<\/p>\n

Bonus photo of my very comfy new hiking boots. We all bought new boots today and have been wearing them around ever since we left REI. They will be all nicely broken in by the time our Alaska trip rolls around.<\/p>\n

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\n(sorry if I blinded you with my Caspar the Friendly Ghost legs!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The desk is finished and it looks GLORIOUS. Definitely some satisfaction in doing it yourself (although it would have been nice to save the grand-and-a-half that we payed the jacka$$ painter to do it). The paint smell is SO strong right now that you can get high from walking into our backyard, but it does … Continue reading “At the risk of boring you all to tears…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}