February 10th, 2008

table finishing, blog changing

Today involved: three coats of finish on our new table, new blog design (refresh your browsers) and a massive headache from the finish goo.

Neither of us have ever finished furniture (well, apparently Chop worked at an antique shop for five minutes before he got fired for not being so hot at refinishing furniture, hehe), so it was a very interesting learning experience.

It turns out we aren’t half bad… or it’s just not that hard, because the table looks pretty good.

It’s incredibly time-consuming (two hour wait time between coats, three coats, sanding, etc.), the odor is irritating and all the damn animals wanted into the kitchen to sniff around, but it was actually kinda fun.

We’re planning to tackle the chairs this week, before his sister comes to visit (on Valentine’s Day, the cock blocker), and hopefully they will be a bit faster.

Somehow I doubt it, lol.

Oh, and for added fun, the Chop is now blogging. Unemployment has made him very chatty. 😛

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