Sunday, May 8, 2011

Big Update

I have been a bit lazy in my posts lately so I need a big update covering everything I completed in April.  March and April saw really bad weather here in the South.  Tornados, high winds and bad storms.  I had Josephine under a 20' x 10' canopy but it was picked up in a storm fully intact and sent over a 20' tall hedge.  I found it hanging from my neighbors roof in the morning.


Poor Josephine suffered a torrential rain without her cover so I lost two weeks drying her out and figuring out how to get her into the garage.  My garage door is only 84" tall and she is 90" tall.  I ended up taking off her wheels and sitting the drums on two car dollies.  She rolled right in after that and is now safe and sound in the garage.


I cleaned up her hub caps and repainted the Scotty logo on them.  I think they turned out nice.





When I camp I have to sleep well.  The couch cushions would never work for my hubby and I so I decided we would have a permanant bed and give up the couch.  I got the top of the bed frame finished.  I will add two drawers underneath for extra storage.  I will also have the water tank and water pump under there as well.  This way the water pump will be insulated a bit from making too much noise.





I also made some headway on the kitchen cabinets.  I am going for the vintage cottage look so the cabinets are distressed and glazed.  The backsplash looks like vintage ceiling tiles and the hardware will be vintage as well.  I love the look so far!


To get this look I used one coat of primer, one coat of the lighter wall paint and two coats of the blue.  Then I sanded it down to rough it up a bit and rubbed on the glaze.