Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
do-it-yourself

flip

I completed my first furniture flip last night. I took my old hope chest and made some updates.

I started by removing the top and refinishing it. It was pretty beaten up and still has a distressed look to it (despite sanding the original finish off), which is not what I was going for, but here we are.

I then removed the side handles and patched as many defects as I could on the chest part of things. I used mineral chalk paint from Dixie Belle Paint Company and topped it off with their wax. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, but next time, I’m going to try their paint that has the topcoat built in and not do the waxing part. I must have used too much wax as I leave fingerprints on the chest every time I touch it. I guess I need to do some more buffing. I also had the brilliant idea to put a cedar liner in the bottom of the chest. What a pain that was! The stuff I bought at Home Depot was all warped and it made the job very difficult. I originally thought about lining the whole interior, but after the way the bottom went, that’s not going to happen. I’ll give it this much–it did smell really good. And, just for fun, I replaced the hinges and installed casters to make it easier to move around.

holidays

early easter

My brother had to work today, so we celebrated Easter yesterday evening. I hosted this year and we had the usual Eastery-type foods. I took Friday off to clean and prep some food. That was probably unnecessary, but I didn’t have to rush around on Saturday, so it was worth it.

Easter symbolizes spring, right? I hope spring gets here soon! I have been cooped up in the house far too long. We’ve had a couple of nice days but they were during the week so I didn’t get to enjoy them.

books

j is for judgment

This was a pretty good story. And, it didn’t have a ton of characters to keep track of, like Grafton’s stories often do.

I’m ahead of schedule with my book reading this year. I try to read at least one (fiction) book a month–I read a bunch of non-fiction, too, but I don’t document it here–and this is the 6th (fiction) book I’ve finished in 2024!

My rating: 3.5/5

do-it-yourself

office kitchen

The office kitchen walls have been painted. They’re the lovely Aloha color from Behr. So, now the kitchen looks like it belongs in a beach house. I’m really happy with how it turned out–I wasn’t sure I was going to like the color. Brian helped me paint and it still took 3 hours (the room has a lot of stuff to paint around). I still have to paint the floor, window, and door trim (I already did the crown molding), but that will happen in the coming weeks (weekends, actually).

movies

john wick: chapter 3 – parabellum

On Saturday night, I watched the last of the John Wick movies that are available to me. He sure had to kill a lot of people in this one! The one thing I don’t like about this series is how they sort of tout his dog sidekick, but then the dog hardly has any scenes. Much like the 2nd movie in the series, I could probably use a break between these, but it is what it is. We’ll see how I feel about the 4th one once I’m able to watch it.

My rating: 3/5