Wallpaper is Evil

We just started removing the wallpaper in our kitchen after about nine years of procrastination. Ugh.

It wasn't pretty before unless you like that cutesy country stuff - and a lot of people do - and now it looks heinous due to another of the former owner's design taste. Below the wallpaper is a lovely vine stencilled in blue along the ceiling and down the side of one window. Ick. Now, I must admit to doing a stencil once that I would now cringe at, but it just sucks because now we've got to sand that down otherwise the shape of it will show through the new paint.

I did paint the kitchen ceiling a summer or two back so at least that's done. Still...I really am not a fan of home improvement. I'm a big fan once it's over.

The funniest part of the day was when B picked up the stand the TV is on and started walking with it. What? People lifting things isn't funny? Okay, there was a massive crash as if glassware had just been smashed all over the place. I looked over to see him still with stand in hand saying, "Is there a shelf on the bottom of this?" Yes - with an arched candelabra of glass votives, candles and a plant in a terra cotta pot...with glass marbles in the bottom for drainage. Not a chunk of dirt or marble was left in the pot. I hated watering it anyway, and I just chucked the candles and will use the little glass votives to hold frit - ground glass - for my bead making.