Concrete Countertops

Dry, cured, layers and layers of sealant and top coat of protection.  LOVE them!  So much better than original tile squares and the horrible grout that was so hard to clean!  Yes, you can see my trowel marks, but it is flat!

Not perfect (inside corner by sink was hard to sand).  I will report back how they hold up to heavy family use and 12 daily seminary teenagers eating breakfast and slamming their homework books down on them.

Hack This?

I have 3 1/2 months before #1 daughter's wedding, and I am day-dreaming about my yard. It's not like I need another project...But this idea has me intrigued, and fits under "spiffy up the house for company" goal. And "cleaning up the sewing room" goal.

Trip with Tiffany to see the wonders of PA (she kept telling me to imagine these planters full of color!):

I see heavy duty felt, grommets to hang on vertical surface, a tarp-like liner against the wall side.

Buy them (watch the video) here. Or make them tutorial here.
These are on my must try list!

Changes, Little Things

In the great Babcock Woman Tradition, I did it myself. Then I needed help to fix it. Stabilize it. I really should have waited for the technical planning half of our marriage to help in the first place. It was on his list...and I got impatient. And hurt my back being stupidly independent.

John helped me rearrange them, so doors opened from the inside (I had them reversed, in my desperate search for wall studs in dense plaster). These were salvaged from the wall we took down last Christmas break between the kitchen and dinning room. A kitchen always needs more storage, right? I had to take down a couple of the clipboards, but it gave me space to put my favorite rolling pins!

And as I was decluttering, I found these purple bauble earrings. I vaguely remember Deb and I getting clip on earrings (from Mom one Christmas? Or Grandma Lucy?) and they were painful, but I kept these anyway, loved the color. We used them to play "Boss & Secretary." Which is funny to me now, working in an office...I looked at these painful clip ons and turned them into pierced earrings easily, couldn't figure out why I hadn't tried that years ago. 30+ year old costume jewelry is now wearable!