Italian Cooking Class Dinner

These lovely girls came over and we all made an

Italian dinner. I was great fun to have these girls over.Thanks for a wonderful, memorable evening, girls!

 Cin cin!

 We had a great wine server, too!

Operation Restore Order!

Now for curtains and pictures and shelves back up!

Yesterday's birthday girl.

We have a rotating slide show off to the side of our desktop. This photo came up this morning, I just had to post it! I'm glad you had a great birthday, Emily!

DPP-9 Half-way!

Tapping the wood into place

One side nearly done

Clean

DPP-8 Winding up the paint job

Getting it all ready

So thick the stick didn't even move! Great color!

Last two walls finished!

DPP-7, All in a Day's Work!

Why won't blogger rotate the photo???
Here's where the day began

By 2:30 all the priming was done!

Two walls finished by 5:30.

I had scaffolding to get up to the 12 1/2 foot peak!

Ready to finish tomorrow!

Texturing the ceiling

Looked rather like Bert and his chimney sweep brush!  The guy on the right rolled a thick layer of mud and the guy on the left took his broom and pushed it up and down in the mud to make the texture. My shoulders would be killing me!!!