A Little Summer Fun...

Love these Bubble Blowers! Soooo easy to make. Just take a water bottle and cut off the bottom end. put a wash cloth on the end and wrap a rubber band around it. That's it! Now dip the wash cloth into the bubble solution and then blow! These bubble snakes are so much fun!  We found that the fluffy bathroom type washcloths work better than the dish cloths.

Free Piano!

So I acquired a free piano! With a little research, I discovered that it's a Shaw Piano and was manufactured in 1913 in Baltimore. It is a little beat up and so I had this great idea that was going to refinish it! Here are the "before" pictures. We had already started removing some pieces.

Through online research I read that although the piano is solid wood, it does have wood veneers on parts of the piano to give it a finished look. Because of the veneers, I could not just sand of the crackled coating. I actually had to get a stripper agent and tediously paint it on, wait, then scrape off the goopy substance. This has become a way bigger progect than I intended! Just a few small sections left and the entire surface will be stripped down to the wood! Pictures to come soon!