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A useful trade publication -. Paint and Wallcovering Contractor Magazine. Information on several fellow professionals:. Mr Bender presents an outstanding example of his student's work. An Article from Painting and Wallcovering Contractor Magazine - 'Getting the Hang of It':. An Article from Dorset Country Journal from 1998, 'If the Walls Could Look':. Don't expect that to be the case in your home. Wallpaper, like anything else stylish, is making a comeback in homes of America. Brad Bender of Danby is...
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The Sow's Ear: July 2013
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013. Crape Myrtle Watch, 130703. So how are the crape myrtles doing, subsequent to my switching two of them around last fall? Well, the one-that's-supposed-to-be-a-Bayou-Marie-but-isn't is doing fine in its new location down next to the step. It's got fat bright-reddish buds on it and looks ready to burst into bloom any day now. One of the New Orleans specimens is doing quite well, thank you. I anticipate flowers from it very soon. Took longer than I'd imagined. Crape myrtle roots...
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The Sow's Ear: Precarious
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Saturday, October 4, 2014. But a couple weeks ago a church friend I'm calling Lizzie* expressed herself willing to lend a hand. Or two. We were planning for her to come help put up blankstock the third Saturday in September- until I got an emergency call to come work that day at the Big Blue Box Store. We tried again last Monday the 29th. Together got five strips of blankstock up. Railroaded. Yaaaayyyy for us! Lizzie is coming again tomorrow afternnon (later today? What’s all this trepidation about?
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The Sow's Ear: March 2014
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Sunday, March 30, 2014. This Is What Is Known as "Existing Conditions". My big goal after prepping the dining room last month for wallpaper was simply to get all the bills and receipts and tax documents entered and sorted out so I could have a clean Study for the first time in months. Have I achieved this? I've been Writing, and obviously not on this blog. So a week or so ago I started a doppelganger Blogger blog. Under a separate Google name and account. All right, now I've revealed all that here, my co...
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The Sow's Ear: Precipitous
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014. Early this morning I got to thinking, maybe I can. Do this wallpaper hanging by myself. I got the long strips of horizontal blankstock on the wall successfully, why not the vertical wallpaper? So after a long day of teaching and working at the Big Blue Box Store (and after only slightly more sleep than I’ve been making time for the past week or so), I launched in and tried it. I looked up Robert Kelly’s report on seam cycles. I could email him and ask, I suppose . . . I’...
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The Sow's Ear: February 2014
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014. Barring a ceiling I do not. Want to repaint, my dining room is ready for wallpaper. From the peanut gallery. This means in the past month I got the rest of the old paste off the walls. And finished washing the yucky mill dirt off from behind the trim. And used Gardz to stabilize the surface of the drywall on the wall between the dining room and the kitchen. And took down the register cover and spray-painted it hammered bronze. And spackled and sanded the holes left from that, ...
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The Sow's Ear: Scraping Along
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Thursday, January 23, 2014. What was the name of that instrument the Romans used to use to scrape the sweat and dirt off their bodies? Oh, yeah, a strigil. Pretty effective tool, a strigil. If you didn't have soap and water, or if soap and water wouldn't do the job, a strigil was the tool for you. But what's that got to do with preparing my dining room for repapering? Remember I said Monday that removing the old paste was a long, wet, messy, tedious job? A 50-50 mix of vinegar and warm water, of course&#...
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The Sow's Ear: March 2013
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Sunday, March 24, 2013. Eeyore Nails Up Trim. Where we came from (2003). After I got home from church early this afternoon, I stood in the hallway looking at the new casing for the doorway to the kitchen. It looked- off. In fact, the right end of the head seemed to be sloping downwards. But how could it? The jamb pieces are exactly the same length. The head piece is nailed into them square. A check with the level- several checks with the level. Oops, it was true: The right end of the head was. Three quar...
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The Sow's Ear: May 2013
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Monday, May 27, 2013. OK, So Where Were We? Oh, yes. Up to the first weekend in May, recounting this spring's not-so-lightninglike progress. Eh bien. Nous recommençons. Saturday, 11 May 2013:. Dare I admit that nothing got done on the house this past week? Too much sub teaching, too much working in my least-favorite department at the Big Blue Box Store (Home Décor- booooorrrrrrinnnngggg! Not the worst of it, either. A little too friendly. Monday, 13 May:. Friday, 17 May:. Eve of the annual Borough Large ...
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