The Good News, Then the Bad News, Then More Bad News

The Good News is that I primed the dining wall where we removed the door and unless you are looking for it, you'd never know there was a door there. The Bad News is that I *do* look and I *can* tell where the door use to be. *sigh* This wall has driven me nuts and I wish that I could just give in and let it go. You don't see seams - they're gone, but I can see a couple of waves and dips in the wall near the seams. In the photo, the color variation you see is the primer - it was a different brand of green primer that I had originally used on the wall, so the color is a little off. I thought that maybe that's what was throwing me off, but when I painted a sample of the paint on the patched area - nope, it's a wavy wall:(

The wall wasn't even to begin with, but I never noticed because there was a door there interrupting the drywall. But now that it's just one big wall, those little humps jump out at me and I won't get any peace until they're fixed, lol. So the More Bad News is that I'll probably need to go over nearly the entire wall again with drywall mud to even it out. You may think I could just sand out any unlevel places, but that would result in just one big dip instead of two little ones. Oh well, at least this can be fixed and it isn't some kind of catastrophe. We'll see if I have any hair left by the end of this project. I think I need to get one of those really large, wide drywall blades, though, to help ensure that I'm applying the drywall evenly and filling in the dips correctly.


I know the days are suppose to feel longer now, but they are just flying by for me. There is so much to do and still so little time! Ack! But I have worked on some cottage crafts a little bit this week...
This set of little glass cottage fridge jewels (magnets) will be going in my online shop when it opens. I know there is usually a need for us to put reminders and lists on the fridge or other places - I love the idea of doing this in cottage style:) You can click the last photo to get a better look at this cottage fridge jewelry:)

Well, as usual, I only have this snippet of time and now I need to get out of work clothes and fetch the kidlets from school. I haven't yet responded to the generous comments and emails from the last entry but will soon - thank you all so much!