It took me forever before I was satisfied that my replacement tabletop wouldn’t warp, but my table is finally finished, and it’s perfect for that space! Now, we just need to wire the sconce light and get rid of that lamp. For now, though, I’m satisfied. I didn’t have a picture with the round top, […]

Buying lots of seeds and dormant root systems of native Virginia bluebell, lily of the valley, wild phlox and Canadian columbine. Got some more spicebush, too. Looking ahead to perennials and bird shrubs/trees like serviceberry, choke cherry and viburnum. Also looking ahead to having no money, but I’ll have some very happy wild creatures in […]

Not the prettiest thing I’ve ever seen, but I kept putting off the table beside the door because I worried about that board deciding to warp again. It straightened, but after I had stain and polyurethane on top and only stain on the bottom, I thought it might absorb moisture unevenly and bollocks up my […]

I started them last January (I think), but ran out of “fit to spray paint” days before it was time to go balls to the wall on the Bistro, so they were only done on the brick side of the room. I decided yesterday (Saturday) that because it was going to be warm on the […]

First, a little ‘Bright Lights’ cosmos bloom from my Haworthia (sp?) pot. These are the ones that planted themselves in the fall of 2013. Still growing in there! I got the light fixture earlier this week, but didn’t want to deal with it until the weekend. I like this much better than the huge old […]

Gradge window isn’t very clean, but the sunset was still pretty!

AKA, doing shit I don’t want to do because I have to go back to work tomorrow. I did, however, finish painting my tissue box cover. It still needs its ribbon, but even as is, it’s better than a 50s-inspired light turquoise polka-dot tissue box! I was going to order rubber feet so I’m sure […]

I got two of the vintage books that I wanted, and…a Workmate! The instructions were something else–it would’ve been easier if they’d put the pictures with the text, and made them large enough to not require the assistance of a scanning electron microscope–but we managed. I’m currently thinking of a little project I can do […]

It didn’t just slide in like the other one, but I removed two of the bolts and it went in without any problem. Makes a cute shelf, I think! One very rough box, constructed of plywood left over from the house I built for OK (which is actually used by Onje). The sloppiest caulking job […]

I didn’t accomplish too much today, but I did get a coat of polyurethane on the tabletop and shelves (going to apply another in a bit…hopefully the last). I also fed/watered my plants and gave them a long-overdue grooming. I finally threw out the dead Hypoestes, but the volunteer baby in with the Peperomia is […]