Well, almost done. I have one more to do but I wanted to post this today so here we go!
This is our bedroom door. You can probably see the scratches made by the dogs, especially if you click on the picture to enlarge.
Sanded half way.
Sanded completely.
Two coats of Zinnser varnish (amber).
Two coats of Minwax polycrylic (clear gloss).
And in between waiting for each coat to dry I managed to can a couple jars of fig preserves two days ago, and plain tomato sauce today. I thought I had tons of tomatoes and it only made 3 quarts of sauce! Hopefully we'll get more tomatoes and I can do another batch.
7 comments:
Thats it!?? What no laundry!!! Surely you had time!!!
WOW you are sure making some amazing progress!!!
I hope you two are spending some down time too!!!
Patti
Oh, sure there is laundry. That's just not fun so I don't do it unless I can't put it off any longer.
Wow, T...you are really doing some impressive work there. You and B. work well together.
You will be rewarded for all your efforts with big $$$.
Let's see a before and after on the laundry too! LOL
LC
I'm sure you probably realize that the laundry is one job that is never-ending!
Awesome work on those doors. What method do you use to can your tomoto sauce and your preserves? As you probably read on mine I just used the method most people would use when canning "freezer jams" (using hot jars, hot jam, & hot lids). Was curious to see how you did yours...
~M~
I call it the hot water bath method. You put the hot, cooked preserves/sauce in the hot, clean jars, put the lids and bands on and boil in water (making sure there is at least one inch of water over the top of the jars) for the prescribed time (in this case it was 35 minutes for the preserves, 45 for the sauce).
I see. I guess that is really the "safest" way to do it. I have a glass top stove and unfortunately there are mixed thoughts on what can happen to the stove top when you have the stove up to boiling temperatures for long periods of time. I am kind of scared of something bad happening so I chose to do it like the method of "freezer jams". I also have to find a larger pot to make sure I have that required 1" of water above my jars when I try to do the "water bath method".
I've already gone through 1 jar of my strawberry...so yummy! Thanks as always for sharing the info! :o)
~M~
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