Some progress

First things first, let's start with a COMPLETED project.  You'll remember (or maybe not) that we had no refrigerator when we bought the house.  Fortunately, we were able to buy the refrigerator from the house we had rented for the past 2 years ( we knew it worked ).  UNfortunately, it was a dingy white and didn't match my wonderful new stove at all.  Now, I was willing to live with that, it isn't the end of the world, afterall.  

However, I saw something on Pinterest (I LOVE Pinterest) that made my inner child smile.  So, I visited here and found out how easy it was to paint your refrigerator with chalkboard paint!  Yay!  

By the way, that was my first link, feeling pretty "chuffed" as my South African friends would say.  

She didn't use Rustoleum Chalkboard Paint, but I did - 2 coats of paint, and it's still magnetic.  Awesome! AND I get to move another Pin to my "Done" board.

Believe it or not, I still haven't bought chalk to write on this.

  The bonus of this picture is that you get a sneak peek of the painting I did yesterday.  And another quick peek,

Pablo tried to help with the painting, check out his tail.

 Now on to the SOME progress...

This is the dining room when we moved in.  

So, my friend Sasha and I worked until our bodies were REALLY feeling it.  A whole lot of progress has been made.  And now?  It looks even worse :)...

The ceiling tiles that used to be up here,

are now stacked in the corner.  That pile is only 1/2 a head shorter than I am.

And this is the result of my 3 nights of peeling paint (actually there are 3 other walls that look a lot like it).  Sasha "mudded" about 3/4 of it before she went off to cook her mom's birthday dinner.  This wall is almost ready for primer (2 coats of primer in certain places).

So, a lot of "some progress" happened yesterday.  But still not ready to check it off THE LIST.  

Come back tomorrow and I'll show you what "some progress" the guys did outside.

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