31 days... Day 3

I hope that everyone is able to take advantage of the 31 day challenge linky party at the nester.  There are some incredible series there!!  I have been having a blast reading through so many of them.

I am still rolling on my 31 days of finishing what I have started.  So today after work I finished stenciling my bedroom.  Yeppers - it is done!!

Woo Hoo - 2 projects done!!  Now I need to hang the curtains back up - those poor windows look naked!!!

Believe it or not - it was much harder for me to do the soffit than the rest of the wall.  Can you guess why?  I had the house to myself the majority of the week-end.  Honey was out of town. And when youngest daughter was home she hung out with me in the bedroom while I was painting.

But today the family was in the living room while I was painting in the bedroom.  I love spending time with my family more than doing just about anything else.  That caused me to rush and make way more mistakes than I should have.  Meaning more time spent touching up those mistakes.  So what I have learned from this 31 day challenge so far is that I need to coordinate my schedule and not plan projects that take me away from family time.  Maybe then I will have fewer uncompleted projects hanging over my head.  (note I did say maybe)

So until tomorrow

Happy Diy'ing

Susan

31 days... Day 2

Day 2 - woo hoo!!!

The reason I chose this topic is obviously because I have alot - I repeat alot - of unfinished projects.  All sizes, all types...all unfinished.  I hope that I not only finish a multitude of projects, but also find out a few reasons why I never seem to finish anything.

So on to day 2  which could be called:

Starting to finish what I have started

because I was unable to finish it this week-end.  It was more than day and a half project.

Before I started the stairs,  I started painting the master bedroom.  Eventually maybe I will share pictures of the before of our bedroom, needless to say it is sad and boring.  If Honey and I can ever work out our schedules we are going furniture shopping - that will be fun.  In anticipation of that I decided to paint the bedroom, got half way done and got somewhat bored and started the stairs.  I think the reason I got "bored" is that when I was in the master bedroom - everyone else was in the family room and I felt left out.  With the stairs, I was in the midst of everyone.  So maybe that is one reason for not finishing a project - loneliness.  (Hey - sounds good to me)

So I started painting and got bored - again.  So guess what I did...

Excuse the incredible mess of the rest of the room.  Anyway - did you guess??  I started stenciling one wall.  I still have to do the soffit - which is a functional soffit, as in I cannot tear it out.  That is the main reason I decide to stencil.  After we put our headboard up, there is not much space above it for a picture and the wall needed .... something.



This is a GREAT project for me.  Nothing new or creative.  There are lots of great stenciled walls all over blogland.  I had bookmarked this one from Centsational Girl.  I used painters tape, no spray on adhesive, and instead of marking with a pencil, I used straight pins to mark the registers on the stencil.  I left it in place each time until it dried.  This is why it was a great project for me.  That gave me lots of time to do other things during each drying period.

Overall it was super easy.  Getting the very first one level was the hardest part.  And I had to free hand a few places where the stencil would not fit.  I love the whimsical look of it - I am not an overly serious person, so this fits me to a tea.

I still have part of one wall to finish painting in addition to stenciling the soffit.  But I have to have someone move the ginormous dresser from where I need to paint - hopefully that will be when we bring in the new furniture.

So - I call day 2 a huge success for me, even though it is not entirely complete yet.

So until tomorrow..

Happy DIY'ing!!

Susan