day 15 - taking stock

Midway through the month already.

Lets see what the list looked like at the beginning of this challenge.

Projects to finish:

• 4 wire dangles for a customer order
• memory box which was going really well till I stuffed it up
• put up a shelf I've been working on in the toilet
• finish living room curtains I started over a year ago
• memory tin I haven't stuffed up yet
• finish sorting items to donate to the work garage sale

Projects to start (and finish would be good):

• make tea light holders for the porch for summer
• organise hanging baskets for around the house
• fix and put up an old chandelier for the bedroom
• make a hanging light for Wayne's desk
• clean up some old metal baskets and find a home for them in the house
• re-make a drawer unit into a bench for the mudroom
• make a hat rack for mudroom
• make a coat rack for mudroom
• make a small box to hold mobile phones & chargers
• use the flour sacks to make kitchen curtains and cushion covers
• make nifty curtain tiebacks (or rather, ask Wayne to make them for me cause this one involves metal work)
• find a use for some fairy lights I have
• make a broken suitcase into a side table
• finish my tip shop chairs
• fix and paint my gate leg table
• make a shelf under the kitchen window for herbs
• paint the mudroom

Big projects: 

• remove office carpet
• remove linen cupboard from LR
  
• paint the toilet walls
• make the smallest room into a walk-in wardrobe
• paint the house - outside
• stain the deck
• repaint most of the house inside, cause I changed my mind on the colours.

So... now lets see what it looks like now:

Projects to finish:

• 4 wire dangles for a customer order- 2 finished. 2 to go
• memory box which was going really well till I stuffed it up but still not happy with it.
• put up a shelf I've been working on in the toilet shelf is finished but its not up.
• finish living room curtains I started over a year ago not even started. but I have an excuse. I'm not sure I want them now...
• memory tin I haven't stuffed up yet
• finish sorting items to donate to the work garage sale 

That's not bad. 4 out of six finished. One may be removed from the list, leaving it as 4 out of 5 done.

Projects to start (and finish would be good):

• make tea light holders for the porch for summer Not even started
• organise hanging baskets for around the house Does looking at the colanders count?
• fix and put up an old chandelier for the bedroom Nope.
• make a hanging light for Wayne's desk Nope.
• clean up some old metal baskets and find a home for them in the house Nope.
• re-make a drawer unit into a bench for the mudroom I moved it twice... does that count as starting?
• make a hat rack for mudroom hm...
• make a coat rack for mudroom hm...
• make a small box to hold mobile phones & chargers I've sorted bits of wood to use... that's a step in the right direction.
• use the flour sacks to make kitchen curtains and cushion covers I will now break that down to smaller steps and add a bit...
• bring in ironing board
• iron flour sacks
• sort which flour sacks to make cushions out of
• make curtains for kitchen
• make cushions
• make inserts
• make nifty curtain tiebacks (or rather, ask Wayne to make them for me cause this one involves metal work) I have asked W to make lots of other things involving metal work
• find a use for some fairy lights I have Eh.
• make a broken suitcase into a side table Its still sitting on the desk, waiting.
• finish my tip shop chairs Darn. I knew there was something I had to do...
• fix and paint my gate leg table Nope.
• make a shelf under the kitchen window for herbs Nope.
• paint the mudroom Yeah right.

Big projects: 

• remove office carpet
• remove linen cupboard from LR
  
• paint the toilet walls
• make the smallest room into a walk-in wardrobe
• paint the house - outside
• stain the deck
• repaint most of the house inside, cause I changed my mind on the colours.

To be fair, those last ones were a long shot!

So, how did I go?  I've gone from 17 to 22 projects in the "things to start and finish" list. And only started 2 of them.

Not so good.

On the other hand, I have done other stuff.

Just today I undercoated a ton of stuff I want to paint and revamp. I've started 3 more projects, and I've printed out a ton of stuff for some artwork I plan to make.

I also held  horses to have their hooves done, and I went with Wayne to pick up 2 huge round bales of hay.

Things I learned today:

You can get splinters from hay.

Hay in your bra sure is irritating.

So...

Here is a quick revised list:

Things to finish:

• paint 4 photo frames
• artwork for frames
• paint 2 trays
• make photo holder
• finish retro storage tins
• finish shabby jewelry holder
• use hessian bag to finish the bookcase in Wayne's office area
• iron and sort flour sacks
• make cushion covers
• make cushion inserts
• finish the suncatchers and chimes I have waiting to be done.
• fold and put away all washing
• wash dishes
• have dinner

 I can knock the bottom three off tonight. Tomorrow is another day.

 z