{"id":4132,"date":"2018-09-06T07:38:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T13:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2018-09-06T07:51:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T13:51:51","slug":"i-thought-you-were-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=4132","title":{"rendered":"i thought you were cleaning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the purge is actually going well.  i got 4+ large boxes of stuff for the charities.  i&#8217;m taking a load over tomorrow for the local one and my parents are taking the others to the one out of town. now my only problem is i am running out of boxes!<\/p>\n<p>but in the midst of purging, i found several of projects that i needed to decide if i would finish them or give them away.  some of them are fairly involved so they went off into the do later pile, but a couple of them looked like they could be finished up relatively quickly.. or at least a good portion of the project.  so i decide to get started and see if my vision was even reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>the first was this birdhouse.  i bought it a while back, &#8217;cause it was on end of season clearance, and i thought it had good potential to become a caravan for my realpukis<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/42693229940\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"i thought  you said you were cleaning?\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1900\/42693229940_a87def2445.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"495\" alt=\"i thought  you said you were cleaning?\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nthe goal is a gypsy\/bohemian look so i went through my file of saved tiles and printed off this one for the floor.  i sealed it with a spray coat of clear matte varnish to keep it from running or rubbing off too easily<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/42693232000\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"i thought  you said you were cleaning?\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1881\/42693232000_917449fb41.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"i thought  you said you were cleaning?\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nthe wheels were the next to go.  i thought the original ones were dorky looking and now that i have decided to finish this, i ordered spoked wooden ones instead. they should be here in a couple of weeks.  the inside got painted with a coat of bright yellow.  once that dried i rethought my plan and printed a yellow and blue tile instead to go between the wood beams, then painted over the yellow with a mix of blue, olive green metallic and teal metallic mixed together loosely.  ie, i stirred them till they were partly, but not completely blended, then brushed them on trying not to overbrush so the color was partly streaky.  i only did one coat so the yellow shows through in spots as well.<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/42693234500\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"i thought  you said you were cleaning?\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1889\/42693234500_b46acbd8e1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"392\" alt=\"i thought  you said you were cleaning?\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nhere you can see the wall and ceiling beams and tile<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/29564526497\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"i thought  you said you were cleaning?\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1873\/29564526497_3ea9dc38f6.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"500\" alt=\"i thought  you said you were cleaning?\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>of course in keeping with my plan, the great craft room cleanup continued between coats of paint \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the purge is actually going well. i got 4+ large boxes of stuff for the charities. i&#8217;m taking a load over tomorrow for the local one and my parents are taking the others to the one out of town. now my only problem is i am running out of boxes! but in the midst of purging, i found several of projects that i needed to decide if i would finish them or give them away. some of them are fairly involved so they went off into the do later pile, but a couple of them looked like they could be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,455,230],"tags":[4,458,351,457,232,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4132"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4138,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions\/4138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}