A BIG project!

As we were coming home at Christmas time from a visit in North
Carolina, I started thinking about personal projects that I wanted
to start for 2009. I had my eye on getting published and I wanted
to work on perfecting my doll making abilities. And of course the
artist in me has been neglected for years, not to mention that
move into a new studio and the boxes that are still stacked up
waiting for the day when order will return.
Yet when my sweet husband asked me to take on this project, I
looked into his baby blues and my mind said "no" but my lips said "yes."
The mission is to take this house on Nichol Avenue in Anderson
Indiana and turn it into a decent rental.
The first day on the job site I noticed that I would have to clean
up the mess left by the last worker. Next, I noticed that all
three bedrooms had wallpaper on them.... many layers of wallpaper.
The blue room had 3 layers of wallpaper and two coats of paint.
The butterfly room only had 2 layers of wallpaper while the
rough room had 2 layers of wallpaper topped off with a coat of paint
then another layer of wallpaper finished off with another coat of paint.
In spots the wallpaper pulled away from the walls and in other spots
the wallpaper was home to colonies of mold or mildew. So I knew
that the wallpaper had to go.
I went out to Menards and bought a power steamer and I have to
admit that it is weird to say this but I think I'm in love. The power
steamer rocks. The wallpaper just melted under the influence
of the power steamer!
I will be giving you updates as this project goes along but I just
wanted to take this time to give a shout out to the power steamer. I am
thinking that this tool may be useful in some of my future art projects.
I consider this project one of my first yes I can events. Why? Because
I keep thinking "this is too much for me." And then I find that I tell
myself "I am capable of doing everything that needs to be done to
bring this house back to livable condition - except the electrical."
Stay tuned.