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03 April 2008

*throws hands up, steps back* Done! So who won? How's that hangin' going, dabitch?→[More:]You probably kicked my ass, really. Sweet buttery jeebus, that took forever.

In the Mecha Mansion, I will be the Minister of No Wallpaper. Or, to go by my full title, Elizard of the Hobnailed Boots, Minister of I'd Better Not See Any Goddamned Wallpaper Ever or You Know What Will Happen and it Won't Be Pretty.

And this, I promise you, will be the end of that subject. From me, at least. Unless I have to do it ever again. Which I won't, if I have anything to do about it.

post by: elizard at: 00:30 | 24 comments

Ooooh, where's dabs?
Throw 'em down, ladies. Show those cards.

posted by ethylene 03 April | 00:32

Officially finished at roughly 2:00pm PST today. My boss took pity on me and let me paint while he cleaned up the scraps. I almost wept with relief.

posted by elizard 03 April | 00:37

I have one single sheet to go and I got glue after the easter closing of all the dang shops - alas, I also got ill and lots of work to do. So that one single sheet missing is mocking me. I swear it laughs an evil laugh every night. Oh yeah.

And this weekend I'm going to stockholm so I won't get anything done then either. Argh!

posted by dabitch 03 April | 02:56

To make my wallpaper addiction worse, I have two hallways to do. And one room to paint. In a pattern - I'm using the pattern on my persian rug enlarged *1000 and five different colors of paint. It's gonna be mad!

Yeah I just can't leave white walls alone.

posted by dabitch 03 April | 02:58

i would like to attack some walls.
If anyone ever needs their walls attacked, just let me know.
i'm almost ready to deface this dump since they'd be legally obligated to redo it anyway.

posted by ethylene 03 April | 03:21

dabitch, that's just crazy talk. I bet it will look gorgeous when it's done, though. But still, crazy talk. Don't do it! Paint comes in so many colours these days. Srsly.

More to the point, I WON!!!!! YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! I am so great. I am so great.

posted by elizard 03 April | 10:05

And one room to paint. In a pattern - I'm using the pattern on my persian rug enlarged *1000 and five different colors of paint. It's gonna be mad!

Ooooooo. I'm languidly wrapping my mind around this idea. It sounds... it sounds fantastical, like being inside an elaborate storybook.

See, with amazing painting notions like that, why would anyone ever use wallpaper, amirite?

posted by Elsa 03 April | 10:19

The winner of gallons of industrial wall stripper is elizard!
*waitng to stencil her walls in her sleep*

posted by ethylene 03 April | 14:58

Dang, I posted to the wrong thread.

posted by Doohickie 03 April | 15:11

I do love dabitch's paint idea, though it would require more talent than I possess. But I bet it'd be easier than hanging the wall covering that shall remain nameless, and look! No soul-destroying tedious mindnumbing truckermouth-inducing work if you decide to change it! (I cannot count the number of times I've said 'ratfucker' in the last two weeks.)

Doohickie--cool! I bet that house would indeed have been great in its day. Are there plans to restore it or is it too late for that?

posted by elizard 03 April | 15:18

Uncle Herb would like to restore it. He lived in it until a couple years ago. But there are complicating factors. It actually is on the grounds of the Saratoga Battlefield (you have to go on National Park land to get to the house), the city isn't keen on letting him restore it, and it frankly has some nasty foundation problems.

When we visited a few years prior to that he was still living in the house.

posted by Doohickie 03 April | 16:04

Doohickie- me too!

posted by small_ruminant 03 April | 16:57

*throws hands up, steps back* Me TOO done!

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by dabitch 29 April | 06:12

Yay! Congrats! Pics?

posted by elizard 29 April | 10:39

Sorry, I forget which folders of pics I can link to. Here's a single shot of the wall and my old style porcelin fireplace. :) They match! Ha!

posted by dabitch 29 April | 10:58

or..uh.. tile fireplace? What are those things called in English? Anyway, we had to do major cleaning on that too. It's a hundred years old so no wonder.

posted by dabitch 29 April | 10:59

I went to check your blog for pics, but got a 404 Not Found. Why? Why?!?!?

posted by elizard 29 April | 11:00

wtf? Why why indeed??? does this link work? Is my blog dead? I just dumped one of my nameservers, because it was BUGGING me but figure that the remaining nameserver and slave should keep me covered.

posted by dabitch 29 April | 14:12

Nope, dabitch, she iss broken.

posted by goo 29 April | 14:55

dangnammit. Must be nameserver (you are getting a 404 not found, right?) I mean, if this works for you then the DNS is fubared: clickie http://78.31.104.134/bang/blog/1

posted by dabitch 29 April | 14:57

that last link worked.

posted by muddgirl 29 April | 15:06

yep yep, my dns was fubared. fixing now. Wish I had a registrar that offered secondary dns servers but nooo. Oh well.

posted by dabitch 29 April | 15:14

Ooh. Looks gorgeous!

posted by elizard 29 April | 20:33

Thanks! *curtsys*

posted by dabitch 30 April | 02:08

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