Party Like It's The Weekend

After spending most of Friday working, though it was supposed to be my day off, we headed back to The Homestead for a night of fun.

While on an errands run earlier in the day, I picked up one of these for the new house. Because, obviously, I need one at both houses. Though, drinking wine while climbing on step stools and the counter may not have been the most genius idea. I kept bashing my leg on the step stool and now have a huge bruise on my shin, on top of the bruise I got last year from falling in a creek while hiking. Mark thinks I'm crazy, but I swear there's still a bruise. And I may not be that tall, but I somehow managed to knock my head on the ceiling...repeatedly.

And then I went to town in the Swan Lake bathroom. It only took another three or so hours to steam clean the rest of the wallpaper glue off the walls. Mark mowed the lawn until it was too dark to see, and came in to help clean the walls with a little bit of TSP and warm water.  The top photo is the wall after steam and TSP. Looking much better right? 

I took a break Saturday morning to meet up with some lovely ladies at the local farmers market and picked up these great earrings. 

But there's no rest in home renovation, so we got back at it. 

We still need to wipe down the other bathroom walls with TSP and probably do another run with the steam cleaner, but we moved on to other things for awhile. Boyfriend got to mowing the lawn. And by lawn, I really mean field.

We also measured the area for fencing since we don't want the dogs disappearing into the wild, or stinkin' robbers coming back. I was getting very jumpy in the field since I'm paranoid as anything that I'll step on a rattlesnake. eventually, I might get over that. Maybe. 

I also added another sunburn to my collection. Then I got started on those ridiculously sparkly popcorn ceilings.

Here's the dining room in progress. So much better without the popcorn, right?! Here it is after all the popcorn is gone, though some glitter remains. We'll probably sand it or level it out somehow, then paint it.

See the living room through the door? Yeah, that entire room is popcorn ceiling. Lots more work to do. That wall is coming down soon anyway. ince we had stuff in that room and I was attempting not to get popcorn all over the carpet, I opted to move to the lace room.  But first, a quick look at how much of a mess I was. Remember when I said I didn't get any wallpaper glue in my hair? Well, that wasn't the case with the popcorn.

There's some sunburn in there too. In case you haven't seen the crazy room that I call the lace room, here's a before photo. You can't see the awful carpet that we're definitely ripping out. Since we're ditching the carpet, I didn't mind getting popcorn all over, though I did lay a sheet of plastic. I also took down the lace curtains for the popcorn removal. Mark took down the light fixture last week, so the room doesn't look quite as intense as it did at first.

I got about halfway through before we needed to go back to town to check on the dogs, do laundry and take care of some errands.

Without the popcorn, lace curtains, crazy light fixture and carpet, the wallpaper looks much better. It might stay. I haven't decided. It's pretty old wallpaper and fraying at the edges, but no decisions yet.