Classic House Roof Design

Thank You- Wonderful Teachers!

<div class="separator" id="ssnoshadow" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I just think the world of the wonderful teachers that my children have been blessed to have this year. Each has had an enormous amount of love and patience for my children and as a mom I certainly can't thank them enough. With just a few days left of school ( my oldest graduating... kindergarten)  I am sending the kids off today with an end of the year gift for each of their teachers. I knew this was the gift for sometime now, since it was something that I bought myself a while back and get complements each time I have it on my shoulder.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDGTn5L5_R0sx-ONLX_x_d19q6nsPPrS2gItHF4RCEUEhVxFdLEevVHk-tBtBTXedNTPvE9vCIr9ij-OMNdmbm5OMTgDaEa4KwCfY-4pHj9oR_Yj3CQreX1MlX-dEsLIKF185RuWWpPVR/s1600/IMG_4718.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDGTn5L5_R0sx-ONLX_x_d19q6nsPPrS2gItHF4RCEUEhVxFdLEevVHk-tBtBTXedNTPvE9vCIr9ij-OMNdmbm5OMTgDaEa4KwCfY-4pHj9oR_Yj3CQreX1MlX-dEsLIKF185RuWWpPVR/s640/IMG_4718.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I thought the teachers might look alittle more stylish bringing this bag to school  instead of their big ole Canvas Tote. This bag is also perfect to use for the beach, spa, school or shopping. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheLN6SQ6x4YcBDjtfWDd4w-ttQ9DxI7VpboHXKflPMiZcFu6cWx1CnhSCr4uAvTWDhQu3o9svevAT-Il2sq7G0J6LLt9b4tuA07SrcWxndZVw9r1PiYBosgMJCDjxwj2Lhz1Z_GxICAY-h/s1600/IMG_4722.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheLN6SQ6x4YcBDjtfWDd4w-ttQ9DxI7VpboHXKflPMiZcFu6cWx1CnhSCr4uAvTWDhQu3o9svevAT-Il2sq7G0J6LLt9b4tuA07SrcWxndZVw9r1PiYBosgMJCDjxwj2Lhz1Z_GxICAY-h/s640/IMG_4722.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I got these bags at Hobby Lobby. I decided to personalize each of the bags with the teachers initial. I did this two ways. With some, I used iron on fabric (M) and on others I stenciled fabric paint (C).</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqa5fwLp1e1EkERUX4EcHD6R-5gGccBtfZtajamp77LRJR4X_fWNdrV2LHNC_EtYRKRTP6eFicWnVcWuqAgKJPV4Hy_yAugTiLb3Bwmz-UTmLtCW78ko2BNyNCo-78CZJoJqqZQB3JTstg/s1600/IMG_4725.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqa5fwLp1e1EkERUX4EcHD6R-5gGccBtfZtajamp77LRJR4X_fWNdrV2LHNC_EtYRKRTP6eFicWnVcWuqAgKJPV4Hy_yAugTiLb3Bwmz-UTmLtCW78ko2BNyNCo-78CZJoJqqZQB3JTstg/s640/IMG_4725.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"> I couldn't find a bag big enough for my thanks and appreciation so I hope they will enjoy this one</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgro9rOxTzx0PpPkn1-a-xKMKpBlY8kun7f4vVQezK6cZCp7DglJUeSr1DTCKDOaDyaTN-Nsa3JA-VR9FsUTJAewUsK2i41WAsTwmaSPxdCWPpuzEZRHY764V5YTDMR6AlImBMQVusj_JQA/s1600/IMG_4719.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgro9rOxTzx0PpPkn1-a-xKMKpBlY8kun7f4vVQezK6cZCp7DglJUeSr1DTCKDOaDyaTN-Nsa3JA-VR9FsUTJAewUsK2i41WAsTwmaSPxdCWPpuzEZRHY764V5YTDMR6AlImBMQVusj_JQA/s640/IMG_4719.JPG" width="426" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" id="ssnoshadow" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">a</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">nd leave the big old canvas one at home!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2C_YYPR-jcDF8NzyJTMy-IsUyBhf4lACApJTNVSV2lGB0_AetmFtTpQTdYk1EalbncRSgVMjDjTLjKTgeb4JypdDFrGqlWs-pMAFWx_HQM5QZt4Uuyby84irA-5MSBRIBa-22fO3yg9K7/s1600/signature.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2C_YYPR-jcDF8NzyJTMy-IsUyBhf4lACApJTNVSV2lGB0_AetmFtTpQTdYk1EalbncRSgVMjDjTLjKTgeb4JypdDFrGqlWs-pMAFWx_HQM5QZt4Uuyby84irA-5MSBRIBa-22fO3yg9K7/s1600/signature.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" id="ssnoshadow" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Don't forget to subscribe to my blog through email. 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Thank You- Wonderful Teachers!

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How to be bold enough to Paint a Floor!

<div class="separator" id="ssnoshadow" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the more daring DIY projects that I ever took on was replacing the floor in our Guest Cottage. More specifically, painting the floor in our Guest Cottage. It's was a bold move that required a back up plan or a new rug at a minimum, but when all was said and done- neither was needed.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The entire cottage went through some renovations - which I will share in a later post, but this is a before with the carpet and tile </span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHifXdTT5dPCKYWxoIuLrzjNHq109KQv5YifN6HAcoSP27_TKV3hDpE7DJEFPUfd0tcG3dlCYa8EVrn-_6SCy54Fy927vsvGTykOO0gIbnnRXWfjdbv6Oy526S4L-N0IDx5rsodV3PgLrF/s1600/moms+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHifXdTT5dPCKYWxoIuLrzjNHq109KQv5YifN6HAcoSP27_TKV3hDpE7DJEFPUfd0tcG3dlCYa8EVrn-_6SCy54Fy927vsvGTykOO0gIbnnRXWfjdbv6Oy526S4L-N0IDx5rsodV3PgLrF/s640/moms+001.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" id="ssnoshadow" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And this is the after</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZcF3PKsBcBS-DWiSxMFMWV5CNxDky9nnMvAGXyl_r7b4FP07Uo-krp-t7uU36B5mfdxYtzpaVTWhjOud6wdSfLVufJh0bbZj-xWOL10-O_uqZe-5VXr-y2JpCtZbocITcvBAR_u-AI77s/s1600/IMG_4623.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZcF3PKsBcBS-DWiSxMFMWV5CNxDky9nnMvAGXyl_r7b4FP07Uo-krp-t7uU36B5mfdxYtzpaVTWhjOud6wdSfLVufJh0bbZj-xWOL10-O_uqZe-5VXr-y2JpCtZbocITcvBAR_u-AI77s/s640/IMG_4623.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" id="ssnoshadow" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I think the hardest part of this project was deciding on the color that I wanted the floor to be. Because it is a space that has windows only at the front and the back, I needed to bring in colors that would help to lighten the area.   After ripping up the carpet and tile, the entire sub floor surface was cleaned.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwFdNjUvAe8FIzRLCAZC4HBWnbSLCnavBLSvzQwv9ltfUptz90I-6WA1Lzp2IG2R3YcqOusoY-ChD_XK0CmtFGgnQIqpODgM1wj86JO6B1epYz8dvghqLpCENsm6cJvP2Flqsia3fPcTuP/s1600/guest+house+renovations+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwFdNjUvAe8FIzRLCAZC4HBWnbSLCnavBLSvzQwv9ltfUptz90I-6WA1Lzp2IG2R3YcqOusoY-ChD_XK0CmtFGgnQIqpODgM1wj86JO6B1epYz8dvghqLpCENsm6cJvP2Flqsia3fPcTuP/s640/guest+house+renovations+003.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" id="ssnoshadow" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I then painted a few squares on the floor to see if I would like what I picked out, after all, this was not a job that I saw  myself doing again anytime real soon.</span></div><div class="separator" id="ssnoshadow" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsEcLjwYuDXaXColR4sMPsu4ojCozWJkCtOtwvgEiVZYYNiqmAW4HWepFVrhnpDrixl-P1lBD_d41ZSs1vL9ZRN9Wvt7qvpX6sRbB4jzX3J1XqX8BZE73blyhVLpE7VWYKG4msISbTfi8a/s1600/guest+house+renovations+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsEcLjwYuDXaXColR4sMPsu4ojCozWJkCtOtwvgEiVZYYNiqmAW4HWepFVrhnpDrixl-P1lBD_d41ZSs1vL9ZRN9Wvt7qvpX6sRbB4jzX3J1XqX8BZE73blyhVLpE7VWYKG4msISbTfi8a/s640/guest+house+renovations+001.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" id="ssnoshadow" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Once that was out of the way, I got to work by applying two coats of the beige color to the entire floor. I used Behr Porch and Patio paint due to its durability.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7SokBIi4-goZNMdepPnbHqLsl5-cNd9f67N3KW4ISvihpMs6jpY_hpMriZFGep3jUS5-aqR_R0QmV1OXks7dM2TNBPLRaClBKBCOk5AiAY8zyclMz499gZ0FnuTkM-i_zeFF4JpSxCBMU/s1600/guest+house+renovations+009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7SokBIi4-goZNMdepPnbHqLsl5-cNd9f67N3KW4ISvihpMs6jpY_hpMriZFGep3jUS5-aqR_R0QmV1OXks7dM2TNBPLRaClBKBCOk5AiAY8zyclMz499gZ0FnuTkM-i_zeFF4JpSxCBMU/s640/guest+house+renovations+009.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" id="ssnoshadow" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> After that dried, I used a 2x2 piece of drywall as my template to draw my squares on the floor. The squares were painted with two coats of the off-white color.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_PwIr-nwJS44_U0EXOe6aB_6tIAWPbFfOACk3h9y6Fq0aPUEK_8ii7Td6q31iQ56OhCrYJ4Irqi1Fc1pDpq5Pwj1ZtGC3YzZKSMxBfjgKH5Wz0rnMqYit0IrEER-gv2O7mW8jT02mnxUe/s1600/guest+house+renovations+039.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_PwIr-nwJS44_U0EXOe6aB_6tIAWPbFfOACk3h9y6Fq0aPUEK_8ii7Td6q31iQ56OhCrYJ4Irqi1Fc1pDpq5Pwj1ZtGC3YzZKSMxBfjgKH5Wz0rnMqYit0IrEER-gv2O7mW8jT02mnxUe/s640/guest+house+renovations+039.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ZVyUFj6KfnyEScTxTczgw32g9bn10lrvMCQcsvZ2gh44jmb4AxXXSkihyphenhyphenUop7GnEdlFKrOO4DctPCijYn6hVntuu1lKpNUQBxyFidz_4M_aidSKWUcVSChhugm_bcUtkMBEVziofK1oy/s1600/guest+house+renovations+042.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ZVyUFj6KfnyEScTxTczgw32g9bn10lrvMCQcsvZ2gh44jmb4AxXXSkihyphenhyphenUop7GnEdlFKrOO4DctPCijYn6hVntuu1lKpNUQBxyFidz_4M_aidSKWUcVSChhugm_bcUtkMBEVziofK1oy/s640/guest+house+renovations+042.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" id="ssnoshadow" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I then went back to make any corrections and touch-ups before applying my finish coats ( I did 2) of Miniwax Polycrylic in Clear Semi-Gloss. I let this dry for several days before moving the furniture back into the room.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6YbafkubG70BPhDWng0nREGa8yYBRaVbUcbbE6GPvIkBDpNIHsIIrK9GuBg3mdqSNFCvCyYIXsIZHKYytCdZbEcEt1kJHqRjxiP8d7cDD8GLmmMO0iXE2NYW1acUI9ZsVFVzJJtdubMY2/s1600/IMG_4624.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6YbafkubG70BPhDWng0nREGa8yYBRaVbUcbbE6GPvIkBDpNIHsIIrK9GuBg3mdqSNFCvCyYIXsIZHKYytCdZbEcEt1kJHqRjxiP8d7cDD8GLmmMO0iXE2NYW1acUI9ZsVFVzJJtdubMY2/s640/IMG_4624.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I like bold daring moves! </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hey- If you are not already, I would love it if you would  follow me on twitter and Facebook for up to the minute updates. 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How to be bold enough to Paint a Floor!

One of the more daring DIY projects that I ever took on was replacing the floor in our Guest Cottage. More specifically, painting the floor ...