A Working Weekend At The Beach

Howard and I spent the weekend at the
family beach house, out on eastern Long Island.

It was a work weekend.

I didn't even take many pictures!

We took down old wallpaper below a kitchen chair rail.

And -- with the supervision of the dog in the lower left corner -- put up beadboard paper.

It's not painted yet; it needs to cure until my sister gets out there and paints it.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

We also painted -- or more accurately -- primed some furniture.

We'll be back in two weeks to finish those jobs.

And we covered two old red-pink club chairs with striped slipcovers.

Taken with my phone.  Too tired by then to go get the camera!

The slipcovers are vastly too big for the chairs -- next time out,

I bring my sewing machine and get to work tucking and shrinking the slips!

But bit by bit, we're giving the beach house that beachy look.

Now if I could only find some plastic lobsters . . . .

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And speaking of changes -- what a difference a year makes.

My twin great-nephews, last October:

Calvin and Luke with Grandma Peggy

And this October:

Happy first birthday, boys!

I'm joining Susan at Between Naps On The Porch for Metamorphosis Monday.  Click here!

And I'm off now to join a blogging friend for lunch, in Connecticut!

-- Cass