Is anything ever perfect?

I got a little bit of a lot done yesterday! Let's see.......I got the carpet cut out for the daughter's room, still need to glue it down. (And fix the paint job on the stairs!)I got the floor cut out for the parents' room. I used a vinyl sticky tile, well, I used 4, had to have them match up the way I wanted it. The front part of this room is going to be the bathroom, I'd like to 'tile' the walls in there. But first, I gotta find a tiny square hole puncher to cut out those tiles with!
Then, I figured out how I wanted to do the end tables. I decoupaged the shaving cream lids with brown tissue paper and Mod Podge. Then I mixed up some colors for the top, using my polymer clay. I wanted to try a technique that I normally use, but this time I used copper paint. This next picture is after it's been baked, but before I sanded it. Here, they have been sanded, using wet-dry sand paper. I'd still like to see them a little glossier, so I'll have to think on that. I never have much luck with sealers and clay.
Here's a idea of what they will look like when I'm done. I still want to add a second layer of tissue paper and I have to work on the 'glossy' issue. But do you see what I see.......Someones been in here, and knocked down the wall, and if you look a little closer....you will see that both the ladies on the couch have been pushed over, one is even on the floor! Poor girls! Wonder who woulda done such a thing??
oh........And they best part! They both don't fit! LOL.....doesn't it always work this way? So I think she'll have one table here, and I'll find a home for the other. Maybe in the front bay window between 2 chairs?
And not that I'm pointing out my flaws or anything, but I've really got to fill in the line behind the couch! It's needs some putty and some paint! Then I gotta fix that gap in between the 2 floors, you see it? On the left. But, then again, if I keep looking for imperfections, I'm never going to finish this house!

A little at a time

Ok, Ok, I know......I'm slackin on getting this house done. Honestly, I'm still working on it, just a little at a time. I got the baseboards in, in the kitchen. Do you see the 'end tables' in the front of the picture.....I decided that no matter what I did to them, they were going to need a base coat first. Still haven't figured out if I want to cover them in tissue paper or no hole beads? They are mighty shiny, huh!
I also got the floor finished in the living room and dining room. I mounted those vinyl tiles to a peice of foam board that I had already cut to size. It made it alot easier to cut the vinyl after it was attached to the foam board, just flipped it over and cut it out with an excato blade.Of coure Otis is is back......he heard me in there working, and hard to see what I was doing. Floor hog! He doesn't move for nothing, and I'm afraid of pulling him out, because he drags his feet and I don't want him scratching up my beautiful floors. So He wins!!!!

Easier than I thought!

OK, I've figured out what this stuff is called~ It's vinyl tile, at least that is what was on my sales receipt when I bought the 'wood' ones this weekend. Can you believe they were on clearance for 75 cents each???
I'm going to use the 'wood' ones to do the parents bedroom. I've only put one tile in here, so you can get an idea of what it will look like when I'm done. They're sticky tiles, and very easy to cut! Then, as I was giving the kids the last of the Caprisun's, I decided to try and see if I could shrink it. I took it outside, broke the box down flat, then took a picture. I came inside and loaded the picture into my PhotoImpact Pro program and took it in the print preview page and shrunk it down to the size I wanted.
I printed it out, then cut it out........turned out pretty well, huh! Feel free to copy the above picture into your print program and play! Good Luck!