The light and the whale

Every night when I go to bed I have a hard time falling asleep because there is a bright street light from one street over that shines right into my face thru the back French doors. Very annoying. I finally thought of a makeshift idea: why not put a piece of paper in the one pane where the light shines through? And instead of a plain piece of paper I decided to do a quick collage out of construction paper to make it a little more 'designed' and intentional. I picked a 'Moby-Dick' them to go with the room. It's just temporary, but knowing me, until I figure out a better solution it will stay up for a while! PS...getting to sleep now is SO MUCH EASIER, such a simple solution that did the trick!

A Calendar for 2020

I love posting photos to Instagram but I do miss the ability sometimes to have them as physical photos like we used to have in the last century. A website like Snapfish makes things easy, you download the pic and for just a few cents apiece you get some nice prints. I noticed on the site recently that you can not only print from your Instagram snaps but they have all kinds of photo related items like mugs, books, t-shirts, and a thing I wanted to try, calendars. There are all kinds of backgrounds and layouts for your photos. I chose a simple clean layout with 6 of my photos for each month's page. I'm very pleased with the end result, the printing quality is very good. Here is the cover and all the months pages. Nice, right?

COVER

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

APRIL

MAY

JUNE

JULY

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

Last project of the decade

When I bring all my city clothes here to the house I'm going to need a lot more space to put them. So I decided to bring the old chest of drawers that was in the upstairs guest room down to my bedroom. Problem was that the color was dated and didn't match the color scheme of my room. I still had a lot of the gray paint left over from he kitchen/dining room re-dos and I thought color would look great. So my last project of the year was to '4-step' the project: sand, prime, one coat, two coats. I think it came out great and fits perfectly in the wall next to the master bath door.

BEFORE: dated brown wood

AFTER: steel gray