Living life one incredible day at a time...

Living life one incredible day at a time...
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Greetings Friends, Family, Fellow Blogging Community!! I'm a 30-something year old music teacher and enthusiastic self-taught decorator, who loves to spend time with my tremendously talented and handsome one-of-a-kind husband, Jon, our two amazing children, Clara and Carson, and my wonderful loving family and friends!! I love all things creative and artsy, including design, music, dance, art, scrapbooking, you name it!! I decided to commence this blog in order to create a fun and creative on-line journal showcasing the exciting adventurous journey of the Botbyl family, and in order to keep in touch with and hopefully inspire other individuals, like myself who love to share a wonderful life's design consisting of love of family, friends, and creative living!! Please leave me a message/comment if you decide to visit my blog, or add yourself to my list of "followers" so that I can visit your awesome blog or Facebook!! Look extremely forward to hearing from you!! Have an incredibly amazing day!!

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Trials and Tribulations of Home Improvement

Alas, the tumultuous trials and tribulations of home improvement projects!! The specific project that I'm currently working on consists of sanding, staining, and painting our staircase railings, which is a considerably involved project in that sanding is always a pain, our railings are extra long and curve around several times in different directions, and I've never stained before, and have never been a huge fan of staining for that matter, although growing up, I remember my mom staining small furniture pieces, shelves, etc, quite often. I digress...

Long story short, the shade of stain that I chose barely made a difference, and...

I STAINED MY HANDS TOGETHER, literally, and as I sit here, slumping in my chair, typing with one crooked sticky "antique walnut" finger, I'm asking myself "What were you thinking, not wearing gloves while using an oil based product??"


I've been a victim of oil-based primers before, and if I'm using "stain" why didn't get the hint that it would obviously stain, and stick, and pick up fuzz from every piece of clothing or towel that I come into direct contact with. God forbid I may need to drive somewhere tomorrow, I may not even be able to touch the doorknob, nevermind yank my hands of the steering wheel...and this dilemma still remains after a hot bath and shower, not to mention an hour long hand washing!! Ahhh!!!!!


Please don't tell my husband - I'll need to hide my hands from him when he returns from his gig late tonight. I'll slyly tuck them in socks, and roll over onto them, while I pretend to sleep. Well, hopefully my experience will help someone who's planning to stain gloveless, and force them to think twice before attempting to do so!!

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