the osborne spectacle of dancing lights

disney puts up a few lights for Christmas

new hat

I would have made an awesome Indiana Jones or Crocidial Dundee

a chocolate carosel

the pointsetta (sp?) tree at the Dolphin

350lbs of chocolate gazebo

our building at Old Key West

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keylime tart @ Olivia's

flight 1500

on our flight ready for take off.

Got the tree up

This is what started it all this year. Hand carved wooden Hawaiian Santa.

And the end result. We start Christmas Vacation when we start and normally finish just as its finishing. Notice Clark W. Griswold crying on the TV. Also our painted walls done with furniture in the room. A nice change from 2 months ago.

color 3 coat 1

all artist sign their work. its says 'mandy and scott' instead of 'scott and mandy' because I didn't pick baby poo yellow so she gets top billing.

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color2 coat 1

first coat done. hit the 2nd one tomorrow and 3rd color for the kitchen after that.

painting fun

if the she were an inch taller she wouldn't have fit.

progress

finally! got to put the faceplates back on the wall tonight. going to try and get the rest of the walls done tonight. not much area to paint with cabinets and such just a lot of stuff to paint around.

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Living Room Painting Project

Finally some updates. Here is the living room mid-stream. Thankfully my buddy that I was working with on his shed let me borrow the extra hand stand things shown here. This allowed us to pin the plastic to the ceiling then tape the rest. It kept the dust down. Not perfect but less.



Here is the dust removing machine. This would be the box fan we had in Pineville before we had air conditioning. This also was in my apartment in college because we never had functional AC.



Here is what I'm imagining a crack party to look like. I'm thinking this is about 2 kilos. Drywall mud dust is so so tiny and fine it gets into everything. This was the results from one sanding piled about 2" tall.



Fast forward to all sanding done several times over, used a swifer on the walls for the first pass (it worked good too), 3 times around with a damp cloth then once again the next day just in case. You can see one stripe of "frog tape" we are using this time. Its supposed to have truer edges and not bleed through. Pop corn ceilings are hard to seal tape against.



The cut in all the way around.


Making my way around the room. I realize it looks a lot like mud but its actually called chocolate swirl. It spreads more like mud.


All done, hopefully. The coat tonight went on pretty quick, took a lot less and we did it a different way. I would cut in only about 3' at a time and Mandy would roll the wall right behind me. This did keep the "wet edge" and when we left it down stairs tonight it looked perfect. Hopefully it will look good tomorrow and I can get some trim for those 2 walls and we can decide on another paint color for the common wall to the kitchen. Then well be working on it Saturday with any luck.

paint!

finally got a coat of paint on the walls. so much better looking now. actually looks like walls instead of infinite white nothingness.

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does this look bad?

had some technical difficulties this morning. i was going to town with the nail gun and missed a stud and the hammer jumped in the way. poor hammer.

looks like i'm due for a new xbox in less than a year of owning it. at least it has a 3 year warrenty. its working now but is dying a slow death.

even more progress made

making good progress on buddy's shed