Title Change

So...the list of occupants in the Shuldberg home is becoming so extensive...I decided it was time for a new title.

The Shuldberg Zoo!!!

Featuring:

Abigail the Wet Wonder

Tank the Trash Compactor

Archimedes the Scholar

Goldilocks, Red Riding Hood, and Little Red Hen

Wigs and McGuiver

Picasso the Terrible

And our newest addition:

Nefertiti the Queen of Egypt

And who can forget my wonderful husband:

Roy the Snake Charmer

(He actually really dislikes snakes...his kind heart won out on this one ;) )

And finally...

one more that is half done (eek!) cooking and will have pictures and more information available tomorrow :)

Now for a few projects....

First comes the nursery...Oh what a project! This little has turned into a nightmare. I didn't like the paneling that was on 2 fulls walls and half of the other two...so we tried to find a solution. We would take the paneling off the half walls and putty in the cracks on the full ones. Started out as a great plan...until we realized that the paneling was not only nailed to the drywall, it was glued as well, leaving a nasty resude on the wall when we pulled it off (the nasty brown squiggly lines in the pictures). Also the other half of the wall was painted with a really thick textured paint that we can't imitate (and don't want to) so comes our next solution: sanding, by hand, 2 full walls in this bedroom so we can paint it and make it look nice for the baby....*sigh*

These pictures are from the started process. We took off the paneling and we are currently working on the sanding...that will take forever...

And my latest project:

:) We made the chicken coup (which I still need to post completed pictures of) and decided the ducks needed something to so Roy built and I decorated this cute summer cottage for them. :) I am so proud. As I was working on it, I thought a lot about my mom. She was really good at stuff like this. I know she would appreciate (and laugh at) the work I put into this duck house.