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Monday, November 24, 2003
I had a very satisfying weekend making and doing things, yet also experienced a sense of annoyance and anger.
On Saturday I bought a HUGE sheet of 18mm mdf, got it cut into 8 strips, and then, once back at home, set about making some shelves. What you need to know before I go on is that these shelves weren't to be new additions to our home. No, they were to be replacements (you could even say interlopers, if you wanted to). When we moved in to our house over 2 years ago, I made some shelves for all our books (they'd wanted some since Christmas and I was feeling generous). These shelves looked ok at the time but due to an inappropriate choice of material (rose petals), began to look very shoddy very quickly (they weren't made of rose petals, they were actually made of chipboard). 2 years later and they had sagged from a pleasing horizontal line to a worryingly bendy 'U' shape. Hence the need for replacements.
This time round I knew what I was doing (making shelves) and managed to make 8 lovely smooth shelves, each uniquely shaped due to the innovative use of angles in our house. I then painted each shelf (cream), then applied a 2nd coat (cream paint, not cream), then varnished the top-sides, then varnished again. Once this toppermost coat was dry (and all the layers beneath were still damp), I replaced the bendy shelves with the straight ones, piled all our books onto them and then stood back to admire my work.
The new shelves looked ok.
On Sunday I painted in the spare room. Now, what you need to understand about the spare room is that it has already been painted (Something Sunrise) but that some bits have become dirty and some bits got missed the first time round. So, we bought a little pot of Something Sunrise and I got a little brush and I started to paint (the bits that needed it). It only took about 40 minutes and I was pleased it was over - it was a very unsatisfying job because it looked pretty much the same. Until we noticed a few hours later that the new Something Sunrise was actually lighter than the old Something Sunrise. So now I'll have to buy a big pot of Something Sunrise and paint the whole room. I was delighted by the prospect.
Thinking (about it) now, I think that (brackets are) a poor man's writing tool.
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