I wavered for a while this morning, thinking I would use oil paint instead of latex and acrylic top coat, but calls to Buchheit and ACE made up my mind because neither sells oil base paint that can be tinted. Oil is almost phased out,  but I’d hoped they’d have some low VOC version. They […]

Just the sacrificial plants; cuttings of ludwigia repens and hydrocotyle, and some dwarf saggitaria that did what sag does when you ship it…turn brown. Roots are good, though. The vals looked bad, and they spread too far and fast for a 10g, so they’re in a bucket with the rest of the sag. Once the […]

Well, the start of it, at least. A 1″ layer of 50/50 garden soil and Organic Choice potting soil (both soaked/leached/rinsed over a period of 2+ weeks), and 25% plain clay cat litter, rinsed. I thinned it to below the trim right around the edges so it wouldn’t show. Top layer is 1″ of Caribsea […]

I took this when I got home because I wanted one of the colour dry. This is just the first coat I applied yesterday. This is the final coat on the last of The Great Wall Project. Blotchy because it’s still wet in spots. One month and one day ago, I ripped off that first […]

I said there wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that I’d be able to have green walls this weekend. Everything else suffered for it, but… First thing this morning, I sanded the wall; first with 150 grit, then with 220. Then, I primed. I had exactly enough primer; so close that I did the bit […]

I half-emptied the “printer cabinet” (which has not housed a printer in many years) as soon as I’d started laundry, so I was able to move it. The rest of the peach paper came off the west wall easily, but then I started on the south wall’s triple decker nightmare. I didn’t get out the […]

I moved my desk and stripped two more sections, then washed off the paste. I was going to leave it, but then got thinking about skim coating with a roller, thinned drywall compound, and a squeegee…and decided to give it a shot. I did only one (vertical) coat, and that wall is pretty rough, but […]

I tried to resist, but those awful flowers are keeping me from fully enjoying The Wall: Chapter One. I got two strips off, then had to start cleaning off my desk in preparation for moving it…assuming I can move it by myself. We’ll see. Anyway, I got a little bit of it stripped, and the […]

I stumbled across another potential paint colour for my office…Creekside Green. I got a couple of pint samples to see whether I liked that better than Victorian Garden. I painted a couple of pieces of white corrugated to get a better look because chips are much too small. I think I will go with Victorian […]

Someone bought the piece of driftwood I wanted on ebay while I was waiting for the seller to answer my request about the combined shipping I was denied, after she said, “Yes, I combine shipping!” I picked out another piece, but when I went out to look for rocks by the creek, I happened upon […]