Sticky Situtation

Its been a busy couple of weeks at the Crawford household...

When I say busy, does this help describe that?


Laundry, sanding trim (for window in 4th bath), and Mary playing in sandbox.  Whew!

So my project two weeks ago was this:

Any guesses on what I had to do?

Well, its something I've been wanting to do FOR MONTHS.  Literally.  Remember this post?  I stood in one spot in the front of the house and took pics of ALL the projects we had to do.  Makes me think about it... There were 14 projects from that one spot.  We took care of #3, #9, #10 and #14 - except we still need to fix those french doors.

And before I just went throuh that list, I thought we had gotten a lot more of those done!  Yikes!

But going back to that list... #13 has been bugging me to no end. When we stripped the woodwork around the original leaded glass windows in the front foyer, we tapped the windows with masking tape... and the masking tape has been there for what, 8 months now?!?!

BIG mistake.

Seriously.  One lesson learned, hopefully you can learn from my mistake.  DON'T EVER TAPE WINDOWS.  It is MUCH easier to scrap off paint or stain than scrape off masking tape!  I guess maybe if you remove the masking tape right away... then that would be okay.  But if you wait MONTHS to take it off (which is the way everyone does things, right?  Well, at least anyone with small children)... scraping the stain or paint off is easier!

Here's the process.  See the gunk in the corners of the glass?

Well, you can remove it with goo-gone... or you can try a heat gun... or you can just scrape it off with some elbow grease.  With some trial and error, I believe elbow grease is the best solution.

Most likely, elbow grease is the best solution for most tasks... unfortunately! But have you seen Nicole Curtis's guns?!?!  She believes in elbow rease a lot too - and claims that's why she has her guns! :)

If you have not seen her show on HGTV - and you are obviously interested in home remodeling - I HIGHLY recommend it!  I really like her.

Back to the project. See that nasty build-up of crap on the razor blade.  Thanks to my husband for having a lot of extra razor blades around!!

Some very dirty rags,



And a few hours later, here is what we have!



On a side note... here are some other projects we have been working on (mind you, all this we have done in the last 2 weeks!  Whew!).

That is the vanity someone donated to us we will use on the 4th bedroom bath.  Sanding it so we can paint (last week).   We painted it yesterday.  Used the paint sprayer for the first time - wow!  Set-up and clean-up took longer than using it!

Here is what some downtime looks like in our house:

Mary Alice and her new best friend, John Zerillo, enjoying some watermelon.  So thankful to have met some awesome people down the street :).

Oh, and a little more news - Mickey cut his hair!  No longer looks like carrot top!!  Mickey is actually here right now working on dry wall.  Whew.

Happy Monday morning ya'll,

Heather