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

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