Sprinkle down some cat litter and grind it into the spill with your feet to scrape away the paint.. Anchor artificial flower arrangements.
1) Lower your expectations for how much you’re going to get done in a given amount of time.And then lower them again..
They say that when you’re remodeling, things will always take twice as long as you think and cost twice as much.As a DIYer, I’d say this is completely false.While things aren’t always as expensive as I think they will be, because we do the labor ourselves, projects can easily take us, like, 10 times as long as I think they should.
But that’s what happens when you’re living a life at the same time.The more I learn that this is true (and I’m still working on this), the easier the whole process gets on my mental state.. 2)Learn your own preferences for which “state of unfinishedness” you’re most comfortable living with for a long time if you have to.
You probably will..
I’ve been living in distress over the state of my house pretty much constantly for the last 2.5 years.Inside, at our house, there’s pretty much nothing that indicates the pre-fall-ness of the season.
Or the the Summeryness of the season either for that matter.. OK, we’ve only been in this house for a month and two days, so I’ll cut myself some slack on that one.. Outside on the property though, there are so many things happening that we had nothing to do with, that really indicate the season and give us a sense of a place in time..I took a little stroll around yesterday to try to capture the last few bits of August before September takes over tomorrow.. An old doorway behind the barn.
The grass is cut back here, but no one has bothered to trim the weed away this year.. A giant spiderweb over one of the barn’s window openings, with the sunlight streaming through..The cornfields are full and tall enough to touch the sky..