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From idea to reality, p. 2 This is one of those ideas that have been brewing in me for ~10 years, and finally all the pieces fell into place and it became a reality. My FIL is a painter (he's also a surgeon and a poet 😅), so he always had a lot of paintings, frames, supplies tucked away somewhere without a proper storage. This year there was a new room added to our house, and I immediately knew I should organise painting storage there somehow. And this is how I did it: - Pinterest - found a picture of a vertical painting rack made out of planks. Thought it would be perfect to fit behind the pipe in the room - chatGPT - asked for instructions on how to make a rack like that - found supplies online & ordered them - Tinkercad - made a 3D plan based on the supplies I chose and the instructions from chatGPT - sawed the planks myself, made the shelves - assembled everything together with the help of my husband 💜 - filled it up with paintings. Everything fit inside perfectly! Before and after ⬇️
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I was in a weird fidgety mood today, as if waiting for something to happen, but nothing would, so I couldn't really focus on anything. Actually my hands are itching to start on the next big project, which is the painting rack, but I won't get the supplies for a couple of days. So I'm just overthinking what I'm going to do when they arrive, and it's not productive 🙄 To feel like I've achieved at least something I did the following: - @calmer breathing exercises - worked for a while on a cross-stitch project I've been doing it bit by bit for ~4 years, for like a couple of days every year. Life just seems too fast to be spending time so indulgently on such an impractical thing 😔 But actually I like the mood that cross-stitch gets me into: focused, calm, calculating. So I just thought, maybe I should conscientiously use it as a mood tuning instrument, and perceive the pattern I'm making not as a goal, but as a therapeutic bonus!
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I managed to squeeze in a little side quest project before new year - restoration of a mid century coffee table. The top was worn, and the legs were flimsy so those horizontal bars have fallen out at some point. I thought it will be a quick one - sand the top, glue the legs and bars together, finish with wood oil. The first part was exciting - I finally got to use the paint stripper the right way! The lacquer layer was thick enough for it, and the dopamine from scrubbing it off when it turned into a paste was great 🤤 But it wasn't as quick as I expected, still took ~2 hours. The real challenge came with glueing. Turns out the legs were flimsy cause the original joints were broken in two places and very lazily replaced by screws (I didn't have the energy to think of anything better, so the screws had to stay 😔). (This turned into a long read, will have to continue in the replies ⬇️)
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