Catch up Day

   So, I didn't commit to writing EVERY day, right?  But to doing some project on the house everyday.  To update on the projects:

    On day one, I did paint that frame on the golden mirror.  The pictures above show it before, during, and after in my room.  Now it is gun metal gray.  I'm not sure I love it, but I do like it better than the gold.  It is now hung on the wall above my dresser rather than just sitting there as the picture shows.
    The next day I hung a table runner and stained glass window on my bedroom wall.  I know that may sound strange, but here's why:  The window was all in these pale blue colors and if I hung it directly on the wall, which is gray/blue, it would just not pop.  So, I had bought three beautiful shell table runners at Target a couple of years ago.  Their original purpose was going to be to make a visual headboard above our king-size bed, but I liked two of them on my dresser too much.  The third makes a great backdrop for my stained-glass window, which has beautiful sea shells on it. 

     Hanging these items was a cinch.  I bought those Hercules Hooks that you see on TV.  They were available at WalMart for under ten dollars.  And, I didn't need to use tools because they just pop through sheetrock.  The first try did seem to hit a stud, so I moved it over and pushed it in where there was no stud and covered the first hole with the hanging.  No one will ever know.  Unless they read this blog.
    The mirror is hung by the same hooks.  They are great!  Speaking of the mirror, no project goes easy or without some minor hitch.  (Such as that hole I am hiding behind the table runner.)  The project took place in the basement since it's too cold and windy outside.  When I was shaking up the spray paint, I thought I would be efficient and multi-task but putting some items to go up the stairs.  So while placing the camera on the stairs, my right arm was flailing with the can of spray paint.  Of course, the can hits the hand railing on the stairs and the nozzle flies off! 
     Our bodies really should be designed so we can kick ourselves.  So, while spraying the mirror, I had to hold the nozzle on because it had broken off the tube.  After the first minute or so, I realized the paint was leaking onto my finger as I sprayed, thanks to the crack in the tube.  I stopped to get a work glove to keep from turning gray.   During spraying I needed to switch hands, but didn't feel like looking for the other glove and three fingers on my left hand turned gray.  It didn't wash off right away and was a bit sticky, so when typing on the keyboard later, the keys  kept sticking to my fingers.
    On day three I marked where I wanted to hang the guest toilet paper holder and towel rack.  My husband was nice enough to help out.  The math of hanging the towel rack centered over the toilet was in serious need of help, and he's a math wizard, being an engineer.  The next time my mother-in-law stays, she is going to feel like it's a hotel room.  Or at the very least, civilization, which it has not been up to this point.  It looks so great!

     I can't say the paint color is very photogenic, though.  It looks like I used a bottle of mustard.  But really, it is a bright yellow that comes off more cheerful than hotdog when it is in person.  Also, it is Pittsburgh Paint's cheapest line of paint and I highly recommend it, since it goes on nice and think.  Except for the main living areas, we used Pittsburgh Paints.
     After going to a movie with friends on Saturday (Saw "The Help", by the way at Shippensburg University.  Awesome movie!) I waited to "make water", as they would say in "The Help", until I got home just so I could use the newly hung TP and dry my hands on the towel.  Such luxury!
     Yesterday was Sunday, and I sort of took a day of rest.  Three days of sticking with something is tiring!  But my husband did replace some lightbulbs in the kitchen that have been burned out for about a year and he tacked up my under-cabinet light wires so they don't hang down any more.  It is looking pretty.
     That leads us to today.  Another master suite project I have been ignoring is a magazine rack.  My husband likes to do puzzles in the bathroom and I of course keep my Better Homes and Gardens or Martha Stewart Living magazines in there for extended sessions.  Right now the books end up laying on the floor, so it is time to hang my Pocket Embossed Organizer that I bought from Ballard Designs over a year ago.  I just might hang it with those Hercules Hooks so that I don't need my husband's tool skills again.
     Off I go...