Partly OT Fabric caulk?

Piping? my house has cracks everywhere. i just dont care anymore. i'm waiting til it just falls down around me and whoever can find me underneath the rubble. actually easier if they just toss a match in and let it all burn to the ground. get one of those machines to scoop it all up and dump whats left in a few trucks to dump at the rubbish tip. yup, that'd be much easier. then someone can build a whole new house cuz this one is bad. j.

"Leslie & The Furbabies in MO." wrote... This is about A Blonde With A Gun. A caulking gun.

This morning I decided to make the insulated, quilted Roman blinds for my laundry room. But then I really should paint the laundry room before putting up the hardware for the blinds. Gee, there's a little crack up by the ceiling, so I'd better caulk it first. Well, now I have the caulk tube opened, the caulk gun and ladder out and my manicure is toast, so I may as well do the caulking in my bedroom and the bathroom chair rail moldings, too. It's all right here close by. And those molding miters I cut are just the tiniest hair off- they sure do need a good caulking, too. Oops! White caulk smeared on the chocolate brown paint- and dried before I noticed it, too! Darnnit!

And then those moldings I put up in the living room could use some caulk. And some around the window and door trim. And those two nail holes in the family room.... and around those ceiling moldings, too.

So, now I am am knee deep in caulk and have FIVE rooms to paint! *How* do I do this to myself- every time! And maybe I'll have the laundry room blinds up by New Year's Day. Maybe? But back to the original subject- why hasn't anybody invented caulk for mitered quilt borders- for filling in those tiny places where we are off just a hair?????

Leslie- exhausted! & The Furbabies in MO.- where mommy seems to have lost her mind!

I have a project for next year, too- unfortunately!. I have to have a new roof ... They say they'll only take two weeks! I hope they are good at fixing tarpaulins: England doesn't have two weeks without rain very often >g< . In message , Taria writes

Praying for drought conditions for UK in the spring- for a couple of weeks any way..... ;-)

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

I feel your pain!!! Started using silicone gun to seal the windows in the veranda, now have found another half dozen jobs and still don't have a kitchen!!! It will be done next year :p)

Janner France

You have been attacked by a severe case of AsLongAs. Sometimes it begins innocently enough. As long as you're vacuuming the floor you might as well do the window sills. As long as you are doing the sills, you might as well wash the windows . . . and so it goes until you find yourself sodding the lawn or some such. AsLongAs must be vigilantly avoided at all costs. Never let yourself be distracted from the task at hand. If you are polishing the silver and a band of marauding buffalo come storming in the kitchen door, calmly continue with the silver. Stifle any inclination to begin anything else. The AsLongAs will eventually subside. There's not a big market for buffalo salsa anyway. Polly

So don't tease us... what is next year's house project?

I wish I had Leslie here to help. You think I could convince her someone else's project is more fun?

Just shelves on either side of the fireplace and a mantle. The mantle has been one of those some days projects for 20 years.

I feel for Pat and her roof. Ours only took a couple of days and it was pretty unnerving.

I still can't think up a fabric caulk idea. Taria

heeheehee, Polly! Shouldn't AsLongAs be afforded the same importance as A roundtuit?

Yes, my heart sank when I heard it!! . In message , Roberta writes

ROTFL!!!

I have that AsLongAs problem all the time!! (Fortunately for me there no buffalo in this of world!)

Allison

Fabric caulk?? Isn't that one of the uses for applique???

Be careful with the ladder climbing and all. Keep your cell phone with you.

Pati, > This is about A Blonde With A Gun. =A0A caulking gun.

I'll second that idea! ME-Judy

SPEW ALERT!!! omg...i have that disease in abundance! A.L.A.syndrome...it's not a pretty sight!

LOL amy in SoCal

I took a class from Kathy Sandbach several years ago & she used permanent felt markers (Sharpies) as fabric caulk! Much quicker than appliquéing!

And speaking of that roof Pat. What kind of a roof are you getting put on your house? Ours only took 2 days as well & that included taking the old roof off & our roofer was a perfectionist! I think he did the whole thing by himself. Not that I live in an estate - just a small house. Two weeks sounds ridiculous, unless they are casting the tiles or something crazy!

Pauline Northern California

Be careful with the ladder climbing and all. Keep your cell phone with you.

Pati, > This is about A Blonde With A Gun. A caulking gun.

Well, I am in the UK Pauline. So our roofs are a bit different from yours. There will have to be scaffolding all around; the existing ridge tiles and flat tiles taken off + the battens and the underfelt. Then the whole lot of completely new will have to be put back again. The tiles are large and very heavy. There is also leading to be done around the chimneys. I thought two weeks was hugely optimistic!! (It might yet be so >gI took a class from Kathy Sandbach several years ago & she used