Quarantine has been a time of projects. Photo proof...
The first week we re potted our plants.
I remember helping my cousin paint this table before she took it college, ages ago. Before gifting it to me when I was in college, my aunt painted it and gave it a new topper. It's been well over 10 years since I gave it any updates and one day, after a bad banana had stained the top, I found myself ripping off the tablecloth before I even knew what I was doing. At that point I was committed. I got out the scissors and found whatever paint was in the basement and got to work. Luckily, I like red and already have a somewhat "red kitchen", so it worked out that the paint I found was red. Then I ordered a new tablecloth for the top and my Best Favorite helped me staple it on. This was an unintended quarantine project, but it's also probably my favorite.
To keep with the "red kitchen" theme I bought some cheap frames and painted them. For the photos I printed some pictures of the foods I had made during quarantine so far and a couple from vacation right before quarantine. My Best Favorite helped me hang them.
Several years ago, maybe 8, my cousin helped me build a shelf. I never got around to staining it and over the years it became two shelves. I finally stained it and found a spot for it.
The bathroom on the main level has been a slow work in progress. Right before quarantine I finally hung some (super awesome) prints from the Etsy shop TheArtof KevynSchmidt. I have always wanted something to frame the mirror and after digging in the basement one day I found some fishing net. I hung that around the mirror and figured, "that'll do".
In college, a friend of mine made this shelf for the campus house that we were both affiliated with. A few years ago a different friend posted online that this shelf was up for grabs as the campus house was looking to get rid of it. I immediately wanted it. I'm always in need of more shelving and since I knew the history of the shelf and its creator I wanted it for my own. My Best Favorite and I made the hour drive to campus and loaded it on the top of his Jeep and brought it home. Since that day I have talked about painting over the "aeropagus" and finally did. I like the no-text look better.
Most of these "children's" books have stayed stored away since we moved into the duplex 3 years ago. My Best Favorite grabbed some new (to us) shelves and I am so happy to have these reads so easily accessible now.
My Best Favorite has spent so much time and energy collecting wood, splitting wood, and stacking wood. Now we have a nice stockpile of wood for our weekly fires in the backyard. That's plenty of wood to continue trying to prefect our fire pizza log recipe.
Here's to always finding something else to work on...
