Not Ready for New Year

I have to stick to the list or the input hints won’t get done. It is okay if I don’t reach 100 as long as I progress compared to not having the list. And that can’t happen if I stop to do everything that occurs to me. I just spent forty minutes adding cardboard shims to the couch and actually the arm did stop wobbling but I just about exhausted my ability to stand on the detritus of this project. (trying to run the roomba only once the couch is back together to save duplicating the work. The work of running the roomba is to charge it, clean up anything it would get stuck on (like a cable

Or a sleeve or a fringe and anything horrible it might track around, run it, maybe confine it in a room with furniture blocking the doorway except not this time because the whole house is dirty. Then clean its brushes and empty its bins and plug it in.) I enjoy these tasks but not at the expense of something on my list. 

Ready for New Year #5: remove carpet stain

I don’t want to do this anymore. The carpet was a very cute headboard substitute but now I moved my bed so it’s in a weird place and also what even is this stain. Stain remover (mine is soda ash based) is harsh on wool so that’s a last resort. Also once I wet it I won’t be able to see if the stain is gone. 

Okay I am just going to wet a rag and grab the citric acid so I don’t have to make two trips if the water isn’t enough. (Vinegar would do the job the same way but I find it easier to keep citric acid on hand; our vinegar is always used up) 

Ready for New Year’s #27: Stain Couch

Sanded a little 

Doctored the weird white glue (?) of the original with sharpie to turn it black for a better base for painting. The idea with using a sharpie was something that would (1) stick to the mystery glue, (2) that the polyurethane would stick to, and (3) that I had on hand. That ruled out for example watercolor (1), crayon (2), and specialty products (3). It looked a little scribbled on so I blended it with some denatured alcohol on a paper towel. 

That lustre.

Ready for New Year #24: hair trim

Before

And after 

Ready for New Year’s #3: order fabric

 Well, this is swatches (for the couch from Ready for New Years #1, not the couch Ready for New Years #2), but I have to see the swatches to pick a color. 

Ready for New Year’s #1: couch webbing

Good lord this webbing. 

Ready for 2023

 Got any new year’s plans? 

No. 

It would take a long time to explain that I observe New Years by getting everything clean and nice and for me that looks like a maybe fatal amount of project wrap up. I just sat and wrote out what was bothering me. I decided to keep it to 100 items so I can function. 

Ideally nothing on the list requires anything I didn’t have on hand but inevitably a few do. I am saving the last ten spots for the things that need doing immediately after they are done so I can do them at night on New Year’s Eve. 

New webbing, same as the old webbing

Furniture

Rehabbed stained glass window

Completed 

Stained glass

 Windiw

Nanoleaf plus fiber

Red

Local landmarks for window village

Coliseum

Street find Chair

Yes it got rained on

Kraft paper window village

Lit 

Sound Dampening Tapestry

We share a back stairway with another unit.