Okay, I may be 2 for 3 on the cars, but my car is really taking a beating. Today, the A/C condenser got holed (yes, I mean holed) on the drive on I-25 today. A part from the trailer hitch on a Dodge pickup nailed a 1 inch diameter hole in it. Sheesh! I'm hoping my string of bad luck on cars ends *NOW*!
Any way, I promise to have good pictures of all the improvements I (read: Mr. K) have made recently on this Sunday's post. Saturday is shot, as both kids' teams wrap up their season and we have trophy/award/picture presentations as well as end of season parties . . .
Not enough hours in the day to get done what I need to! Do you feel the same?
Kellacious
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
All apologies
To everyone I convinced to come check out my new blog, I owe you *big time*!
You see, 5 days after the last post (June 24th), I was rear-ended and had to put my car in the shop for 2 weeks. Oh, and I discovered that I didn't have rental coverage on my policy (crud). So, that means that Mr. Kellacious graciously lent the kids and I use of his snazzy '06 Mustang and he drove our Heep. Excuse me, I meant to type Jeep.
I won't even delve into the details of taking the Jeep to band practice and it stranding me in a part of town I wouldn't normally hang around at 11:00 . . . that little exercise involved Mr. K waking up both kids at 11:30 (daughter was raring to go and son could've cheerfully killed us all for waking him up). At least that car was fixed in a day.
So now I'm 2 for 3 on killing our cars. Yes, I am fortunately still married, but I digress.
The original intent for this blog is to follow the home improvement path I take with our house, good, bad and ugly (a rarity, I'm hoping).
What has happened in my blogging MIA days:
1. Almost finished the front living room. By this, I mean that I got some of the new trim painted, the mantel painted and some beautiful greenery for the top of the fireplace that splits the room. Also got one gold bar on the fireplace painted aged copper as a test run. *MUST* find the ultra high heat brown paint to change the fireplace panels from black to brown!
2. Mr. K whipped himself into a frenzy on the 4th of July weekend and managed to empty, paint and redo our 2nd living room. I have finally managed to do a passable job on a color wash to blend the ultra dark brown (mine and son's fave) of the front living room to the medium brown (preference of Mr. K and daughter) of the 2nd living room. Compromise makes the world go round (peacefully)!
3. Mocked up (excuse me, I'm an engineer and some things you can't beat out of me, like geeky terminology) a fabric storage bin for my too deep shelves in the 2nd living room to hide the perpetual toy/game/whatever mess that lives there. Have to get up on my soapbox here for a moment: Mr. Builder? When you drew up the plans for my house, did you not think that maybe a nice bookshelf on both sides of the fireplace would be handy? And that shelves that are 2 feet deep aren't practical except for shoving junk into and looking like a mess? Okay, enough rant. I'll post a picture to show what I mean about this very soon!
Okay, enough typing for now, since it's time to start printing out team and individual photos for my son's baseball team in time for the last game/end of season party.
Thanks again for your time, and I really do promise to keep up this time. I mean, it's not like the world's gonna spin off it's axis into the sun and prevent me from doing this, right?
Take care,
Kellacious
You see, 5 days after the last post (June 24th), I was rear-ended and had to put my car in the shop for 2 weeks. Oh, and I discovered that I didn't have rental coverage on my policy (crud). So, that means that Mr. Kellacious graciously lent the kids and I use of his snazzy '06 Mustang and he drove our Heep. Excuse me, I meant to type Jeep.
I won't even delve into the details of taking the Jeep to band practice and it stranding me in a part of town I wouldn't normally hang around at 11:00 . . . that little exercise involved Mr. K waking up both kids at 11:30 (daughter was raring to go and son could've cheerfully killed us all for waking him up). At least that car was fixed in a day.
So now I'm 2 for 3 on killing our cars. Yes, I am fortunately still married, but I digress.
The original intent for this blog is to follow the home improvement path I take with our house, good, bad and ugly (a rarity, I'm hoping).
What has happened in my blogging MIA days:
1. Almost finished the front living room. By this, I mean that I got some of the new trim painted, the mantel painted and some beautiful greenery for the top of the fireplace that splits the room. Also got one gold bar on the fireplace painted aged copper as a test run. *MUST* find the ultra high heat brown paint to change the fireplace panels from black to brown!
2. Mr. K whipped himself into a frenzy on the 4th of July weekend and managed to empty, paint and redo our 2nd living room. I have finally managed to do a passable job on a color wash to blend the ultra dark brown (mine and son's fave) of the front living room to the medium brown (preference of Mr. K and daughter) of the 2nd living room. Compromise makes the world go round (peacefully)!
3. Mocked up (excuse me, I'm an engineer and some things you can't beat out of me, like geeky terminology) a fabric storage bin for my too deep shelves in the 2nd living room to hide the perpetual toy/game/whatever mess that lives there. Have to get up on my soapbox here for a moment: Mr. Builder? When you drew up the plans for my house, did you not think that maybe a nice bookshelf on both sides of the fireplace would be handy? And that shelves that are 2 feet deep aren't practical except for shoving junk into and looking like a mess? Okay, enough rant. I'll post a picture to show what I mean about this very soon!
Okay, enough typing for now, since it's time to start printing out team and individual photos for my son's baseball team in time for the last game/end of season party.
Thanks again for your time, and I really do promise to keep up this time. I mean, it's not like the world's gonna spin off it's axis into the sun and prevent me from doing this, right?
Take care,
Kellacious
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Nifty website for original decorating
I feel the need to share with you a website I found from a design book. For a while, we've been getting Dwell magazine. It's not something Mr. K or I ordered and it really is a mystery as to why we receive it. Maybe my Mother-in-law sent it (but this isn't really her taste or modus operandi); who knows.
Anyway, while looking through it and gazing at all the wonderful pictures and ads, I came across this ad for modern, digital canvases. The company, md-canvas, offers a wide variety of artwork that you can have printed in three different sizes to fit your design space. 'Incredibly nifty!' I thought.
After browsing their artwork, nothing really zapped me for the space I have in mind. I did, however, have a photo I took and adjusted with Adobe Photoshop Elements to look like a watercolor painting that I though would look fantastic printed like a painting on canvas and maybe framed.
Here's the shot:
And before you either break out in wild, raucous laughter or call the local insane asylum, let me explain. The original photo (if you couldn't tell) was of some exposed roots beside a trail we hiked along this past Father's Day close to my in-laws place in the mountains. I like the cragginess of them and I thought the colors would look good in my new living room (you know, the deep chocolate of my couches tied with the warm, orange-y tan of my walls), hence a picture of roots. Just be glad it's my living room and not yours. Also, I envisioned this being a fairly large print so you get the watercolor-esque detail.
Soooo, lo and behold, I find that md-canvas has a subsidiary that does custom canvas printing from your own, original artwork (or photo, etc.): Photo2canvas!
I'm in heaven! Now, to quit spending money on the silly renovation part of the room and start investing in making it look WOW! Photo2canvas has the same sizes as md-canvas and at what I thought were very reasonable rates.
Do you have a nifty design website/store/etc. find that you'd like to share? Please do!
And I promise, more photos tomorrow, since I should be almost finished with my carpet repair work!
Kellacious
Anyway, while looking through it and gazing at all the wonderful pictures and ads, I came across this ad for modern, digital canvases. The company, md-canvas, offers a wide variety of artwork that you can have printed in three different sizes to fit your design space. 'Incredibly nifty!' I thought.
After browsing their artwork, nothing really zapped me for the space I have in mind. I did, however, have a photo I took and adjusted with Adobe Photoshop Elements to look like a watercolor painting that I though would look fantastic printed like a painting on canvas and maybe framed.
Here's the shot:
And before you either break out in wild, raucous laughter or call the local insane asylum, let me explain. The original photo (if you couldn't tell) was of some exposed roots beside a trail we hiked along this past Father's Day close to my in-laws place in the mountains. I like the cragginess of them and I thought the colors would look good in my new living room (you know, the deep chocolate of my couches tied with the warm, orange-y tan of my walls), hence a picture of roots. Just be glad it's my living room and not yours. Also, I envisioned this being a fairly large print so you get the watercolor-esque detail.Soooo, lo and behold, I find that md-canvas has a subsidiary that does custom canvas printing from your own, original artwork (or photo, etc.): Photo2canvas!
I'm in heaven! Now, to quit spending money on the silly renovation part of the room and start investing in making it look WOW! Photo2canvas has the same sizes as md-canvas and at what I thought were very reasonable rates.
Do you have a nifty design website/store/etc. find that you'd like to share? Please do!
And I promise, more photos tomorrow, since I should be almost finished with my carpet repair work!
Kellacious
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