Midway through the month already.
Lets see what the list looked like at the beginning of this challenge.
Projects to finish:
- 4 wire dangles for a customer order
- memory box which was going really well till I stuffed it up
- put up a shelf I’ve been working on in the toilet
- finish living room curtains I started over a year ago
- memory tin I haven’t stuffed up yet
- finish sorting items to donate to the work garage sale
Projects to start (and finish would be good):
- make tea light holders for the porch for summer
- organise hanging baskets for around the house
- fix and put up an old chandelier for the bedroom
- make a hanging light for Wayne’s desk
- clean up some old metal baskets and find a home for them in the house
- re-make a drawer unit into a bench for the mudroom
- make a hat rack for mudroom
- make a coat rack for mudroom
- make a small box to hold mobile phones & chargers
- use the flour sacks to make kitchen curtains and cushion covers
- make nifty curtain tiebacks (or rather, ask Wayne to make them for me cause this one involves metal work)
- find a use for some fairy lights I have
- make a broken suitcase into a side table
- finish my tip shop chairs
- fix and paint my gate leg table
- make a shelf under the kitchen window for herbs
- paint the mudroom
Big projects:
- remove office carpet
remove linen cupboard from LR- paint the toilet walls
- make the smallest room into a walk-in wardrobe
- paint the house – outside
- stain the deck
- repaint most of the house inside, cause I changed my mind on the colours.
So… now lets see what it looks like now:
Projects to finish:
4 wire dangles for a customer order– 2 finished. 2 to gomemory box which was going really well till I stuffed it upbut still not happy with it.- put up a shelf I’ve been working on in the toilet shelf is finished but its not up.
- finish living room curtains I started over a year ago not even started. but I have an excuse. I’m not sure I want them now…
memory tin I haven’t stuffed up yetfinish sorting items to donate to the work garage sale
That’s not bad. 4 out of six finished. One may be removed from the list, leaving it as 4 out of 5 done.
Projects to start (and finish would be good):
- make tea light holders for the porch for summer Not even started
- organise hanging baskets for around the house Does looking at the colanders count?
- fix and put up an old chandelier for the bedroom Nope.
- make a hanging light for Wayne’s desk Nope.
- clean up some old metal baskets and find a home for them in the house Nope.
- re-make a drawer unit into a bench for the mudroom I moved it twice… does that count as starting?
- make a hat rack for mudroom hm…
- make a coat rack for mudroom hm…
- make a small box to hold mobile phones & chargers I’ve sorted bits of wood to use… that’s a step in the right direction.
- use the flour sacks to make kitchen curtains and cushion covers I will now break that down to smaller steps and add a bit…
- bring in ironing board
- iron flour sacks
- sort which flour sacks to make cushions out of
- make curtains for kitchen
- make cushions
- make inserts
- make nifty curtain tiebacks (or rather, ask Wayne to make them for me cause this one involves metal work) I have asked W to make lots of other things involving metal work
- find a use for some fairy lights I have Eh.
- make a broken suitcase into a side table Its still sitting on the desk, waiting.
- finish my tip shop chairs Darn. I knew there was something I had to do…
- fix and paint my gate leg table Nope.
- make a shelf under the kitchen window for herbs Nope.
- paint the mudroom Yeah right.
Big projects:
- remove office carpet
remove linen cupboard from LR- paint the toilet walls
- make the smallest room into a walk-in wardrobe
- paint the house – outside
- stain the deck
- repaint most of the house inside, cause I changed my mind on the colours.
To be fair, those last ones were a long shot!
So, how did I go? I’ve gone from 17 to 22 projects in the “things to start and finish” list. And only started 2 of them.
Not so good.
On the other hand, I have done other stuff.
Just today I undercoated a ton of stuff I want to paint and revamp. I’ve started 3 more projects, and I’ve printed out a ton of stuff for some artwork I plan to make.
I also held horses to have their hooves done, and I went with Wayne to pick up 2 huge round bales of hay.
Things I learned today:
You can get splinters from hay.
Hay in your bra sure is irritating.
So…
Here is a quick revised list:
Things to finish:
- paint 4 photo frames
- artwork for frames
- paint 2 trays
- make photo holder
- finish retro storage tins
- finish shabby jewelry holder
- use hessian bag to finish the bookcase in Wayne’s office area
- iron and sort flour sacks
- make cushion covers
- make cushion inserts
- finish the suncatchers and chimes I have waiting to be done.
- fold and put away all washing
- wash dishes
- have dinner
I can knock the bottom three off tonight. Tomorrow is another day.
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