A little sewing, a little painting

On the sewing side I did get the binding sewn together. It still needs pressed, but I had a busy weekend and that is all the time I had to spend at the machine.

Saturday I worked in the laundry/utility room all day. I got the ceiling painted and a second coat on the walls. Here is what this wall looked like before

Here it is now. Much better if I do say so myself!

Here is a shot of the room before I started. You can see I had one cabinet door that wasn't installed. I tried, but the hinges would not snap into place.

One of my brothers stopped over to borrow my wallpapering tools and he hung the door for me! Now it looks like I am getting somewhere! I also got some of the wire shelves hung back up.

So what is left to do in this room besides the floor? The window over the washer and dryer and paint the wall behind the dryer. I will have to replace a piece of the drywall above the window that is damaged, but that should not be a problem. The hardest part will be pulling out the washer and dryer so I can work.

Sunday I spent most of the day cleaning partly due to the fact that I have misplaced my utility bill. I was hoping that with cleaning up I would find it, but so far that hasn't happened.

Binding cut

It has been a long couple of days at work and coming home dog tired, I didn't get much done. I did get the binding cut for the t-shirt quilt and found a piece of fabric for the label.

The operating rooms are almost done. The protective covering on the floors has been removed so now the rooms are looking more done. We are scheduled to turn over the 4 ORs by the end of the month to the hospital. The hospital staff will be cleaning and sterilizing the rooms so they can put them in service. In the next phase, we have two ORs that are going to have some remodeling and two more new ones to build.

I have no idea what I will be getting done this weekend. My brother is coming into town earlier than scheduled to pack up the moving truck. Shows he was going to be working have been cancelled because of the coronavirus. It is hard to say at this point what I will be doing day to day, except I know the 17th I will be helping to wrap any remaining pictures that are still hanging on the walls. My hope is to finish painting the walls and the ceiling. The remaining project will be to paint the window, repair some drywall above the window, and paint behind the washer. Once that is done I can install the new floor.

Be safe and have a great weekend!

Finally done!

I finally have that t-shirt quilt all quilted! Now on to the binding! Here is the last area that was completed.

I did get some of the sanding done on this wall. It needs a bit more sanding before it is ready to paint. I am getting close to having all the walls painted!

The only area left to do is around the window, which I have not shown you yet, and behind the washer. My plan is to work on that area this weekend. I want to pull out the washer and dryer from the wall and leave them out until I need to do a load on Sunday. It will take some careful planning to allow for dry time in order to get this area completed in a weekend. Details to come.

At work the trailer was a mess! I spend time yesterday vacuuming the floors and gathering trash. I just couldn't stand the mess! The guys just think the cleaning service will take care of it, but they only come once every two weeks. Here is the pile of trash that was gathered. They keep materials that can't be left outside in the trailer. When the guys come in and get adhesives, etc. and they empty a box they just leave the box! The wastebaskets get filled pretty quickly too so those all needed emptied.

One of the workers got a front end loader, chucked all the trash in the loaders bucket, and hauled it to the dumpster. So much better! My job is just so glamorous! LOL!!!

Some quilting!

I now am down to 2.5% left to quilt. I got this gray shirt done last evening

and I have half of this teal shirt done.

I did get two coats of paint on the corner where I patched the hole and hung up the shelf. I need to get something completed so I can start putting this room back together. My studio is right next to the laundry/utility room and it is a mess with all the stuff I had to move into there.

I now see flower heads on the daffodils next to the house. It got up to 64 yesterday which is way off of the normal chart for NE Ohio!

At work they are now bringing in fill dirt to build out the rest of the area.

Across the street it is both sand and fill dirt. It is raining today so the guys are working in the mud.

Flannel, painting, and mudding

I was happy to get my flannel I ordered from Hancock's. This will be a quilt for a friend.

The colors go good with the Indian's fabric I got from JoAnns'.

I spent all weekend working in the laundry/utility room so no, I didn't not get the t-shirt quilt quilted. I did start on this side of the room and took down these shelves and brackets.

I didn't even know what was in the one box! Now I know you want to see what was on the shelf and in those boxes! LOL! The unknown box had old jars and a electric knife. I trashed the knife and put the box of jars in the garage.

Another box had clothes. Some went in a pile for the Goodwill, the old pair of jeans when in the fabric storage room for a future jeans quilt, and that left me with two sweatshirts. One less box going back on this shelf!

The plastic bin had my son's and my twikondo belts and my pads. The belts are going; my son did not want his.

In there also was my Cat's Meow Hershey pieces - these will go upstairs in my bookcases

a French fry cutter that my brother who lives in Texas found at a flea market. He bought it for me because at the time I worked for Ekco. Going upstairs in the bookcases

cake decorations I saved from the cakes my mother had made for my son

and I found a rubber stamp I thought I had lost. I used it to print my own fabric for a quilt that is still a UFO. It is still a UFO because I needed to make more fabric but I couldn't find the stamp! LOL!!!

There were three books and some framed needlework. The books were my son's when he was little and the quilting book was my Mother's. They are going in the bookcases.

I moved the needlework pieces to the fabric storage room where all the other framed pieces are right now. I guess I can't make a decision about these yet so moving them is a delay tactic. The lone star piece was given to me by someone I use to work with.

This frame is going to the Goodwill

So I took down the shelving unit, gave it two coats of paint, and the stanchions and handing rail are back up on the wall.

I got the second coat of paint on the opposite wall and was got the stanchions and hanging rail reinstalled.

Had to patch a hole in the one wall. I cut a piece of drywall and made the hole bigger to fit the patch piece. I also scraped out the crack a bit.

Added mesh tape

then a coat of mud - after I had to make a road trip to go buy some mud. The bucket of mud I had was very old and had to be pitched. Here is my patch with the second coat of mud. I will sand it down and only add another layer if I have too.

The far wall which adjoins the bathroom needed some drywall put back on. Part of the wall was demoed when I remodeled the bathroom. I had to pull out all the nails left from the previous dry and unscrew the strap holding up that black pipe for the furnace exhaust. Before adding the drywall I needed to add blocking for the towel bar and a shelf I want to hang in the bathroom. I also added a stud so I would have something to screw the drywall to.

My neighbor was outside when I had come back from my supply trip and I had asked him if he would help me hang the drywall. So Dave came over and gave me a hand. He and his wife are such good neighbors! So here is the drywall hung with two coats of mud. It's ready to sand then paint!

The best part is I no longer have drywall in my kitchen/eating area! Besides the 5/8" drywall we used to fix the wall, I had a piece of 1/4" drywall that was left over and I had no use for so I cut it up and toss it so the drywall in this picture is now gone!

I attacked this area - cleaned then first coat of paint

Looks so much better! It still needs a second coat and it is going to be a challenge to paint behind the sink!

I didn't look at the ceiling until yesterday and decided it needs a coat of paint too. Yikes! Is room ever going to be done? LOL!! I started edging until it got to be after 4; I was tired and I needed to go to my brother's house and put out the trash bin. Here you can see the difference and the challenge I will have painting around all the electrical conduit.

Why is this taking me weeks to do when on a home improvement show it would only take a half hour? LOL!!!

Weekend plans and going's on

I made banana cupcakes with a streusel topping last evening to take to work. I had some bananas that needed to be used up. The house smelled so good!

I saw two deer in the backyard last evening. The one has a big belly so I think she is pregnant.

Remember that cone in the street that I joked that the dip in the road was fixed because they set a cone there? Well they are fixing it and they have the road blocked off on one side for 3 or 4 blocks! I have no idea what they are doing, but there was a excavator digging where the dip was located. Here is a picture from this morning and the pink arrow points to where the cone was.

The guys on site are building up the sand at the pilings for where eventually the pilings will hold up a bridge deck. The height of this is much higher in person than what it looks like in this picture. They have also added concrete retaining wall as they add more sand.

Across the street the retaining wall is growing too along with the sand base. It is a busy place around here with sand and rock trucks coming and going all day long. We have two flaggers that have to stop the traffic for the trucks to back up into the site and for the loader to go across the street to take sand from one side to another.

Here is how close the trucks are to the job trailer. I was standing on the stair landing for the trailer when I took this picture. You can also see that they have the water truck on site and are watering down the sand to compact it. The last few days Mother Nature provided the water in the form of rain! LOL!!! In case you are wondering, the trucks and equipment on site do make the trailer shake. It is like getting a massage all day long! LOL!!

My plans for the weekend are to try and finish quilting the t-shirt quilt and make some progress in the laundry/utility room. Have a great weekend!