Good Friday

Good Friday I awoke to sunshine but frost covered ground making it look like the snow landed overnight. It was -2 when I went to bed and -4 upon waking... is spring not here? It was a slow start, but coffee and creamer helped me. Two dogs and two cats had the same energy level.

 awe!

The 11 am pickup surprised me at 10 as I was just preparing to get ready for the day. This frame will be used in a summer wedding for table setting info.

Time to get dressed and start the dreaded black glaze portion of the dresser. I say this now as I type and have finished. I forgot how hard glaze is for an OCD perfectionist. I started on the kitchen goodies and the last piece did not end so well when I just tried to tweak a portion already drying. It lead to paint removal and an entire repaint starting over, good thing it was small. Britt got up late after getting home late from hot tubbing and was soon off to the gym.

Now on to the big bugger. The funny thing is from start to finish you change your OCD aspects. I hope it dries to be something someone wants in their home. I finished up the base and drawers just as Kaylin and Jessica arrived. Jessica dropped apiece off to have reloved of her Grandma's. We enjoyed as visit with Gail and Britt joining us. The girls all headed home around 4 except Britt who got back to her art project.

glaze on left.. good? ok go..

 all reds top coated and glazed today.. finally even after the mess up and repaint

I was back out in the garage glazing the hutch which I knew would be more of a challenge and it did not let me down. My Lanta... Hardware was sprayed as well going with black now that the black glaze has been applied.

Britt and I had pizza for our Good Friday feast :) She finished her art and was off to play guitar hero now the guitars arrived home via Kaylin. The mint jewel box buyer stopped out to pick up then I spent a couple hours back in the garage: painting a chalk stripe on the lazy susan, spraying the hardware yet again and starting Jessica's writing desk.

This definitely qualify in the antique,it has fantastic carvings in the drop down door saying Lynda+Kevin in a heart and a horse drawing and so much more. This has to be kept I told her. The repairs are typical with whatever they had on hand. I did repairs and rebuilt a missing section of a wood carving and gave it all a good scrub. Unfortunately the piece is stained red and it ran tons during cleaning. Jess wanted the yellow like the wash stand I did but I think we have to rethink it. I have suggested a few options along with stripping and staining the front of fold down door java. She has her thinking acp on, lets see what tomorrow brings.

Back in the house as after 9 to update the blog and Jessica with a frosty paralyzer then hit the showers!.