Patio Progress II

This is a follow up to the gardening post. 

So we ended up moving the shed with some friends. We moved it from the side of the yard, near the back door, to the back of the yard. In the "gardening" post I showed the patio pad that I made for the shed to move to. 

Here's it's original position.

My husband put 2 by 4s on 3 of the sides to be able to lift it up with about 8 adults. He originally jacked it up and put beams under with tubes so the shed could slide forwards. Him and I were able to move it a couple feet like that, however with enough people the we just lifted it by the side 'handles'. 

Here is the space as it looks after moving the shed. In this picture, the garden is also gone as I moved the flowers beside the sheds new space. They have been happy there. 

Here's the shed in the back corner (before the garden)

Without the shed, the concrete seemed to be in rough condition so we planned for that to be repaired.

First I pressure washed the area. 

Here's a close up on the concrete damage. 

After watching a few videos on how to attempt the repair, I drilled some holes then put in the concrete screws all along the missing piece. After cleaning the area with a vacuum and dry brush, I painted on some bonding agent for the concrete to adhere to.  

Next, I mixed the concrete. I felt nervous about this but my husband walked me through the steps before he had to run to watch a car show. lol.

So I mixed the concrete and it splashed all over my clothes and likely ruined my shirt, which I had made myself so I am disappointed about that. My skirt had already been ruined from a tie dying experience with the kids a few years ago. Anyhow, I mixed it to seemingly a good thickness and when I went to put it on the existing concrete. I could not get it to stick on the wall! Gravity pulled it right off. So I have abandoned the bucket and will do a second attempt in a little bit. 

In this next attempt I will do a few things differently. First, I will not dilute the bonding agent. Second, I will use the sand concrete that I bought the first time from home depot (the original video I watched called for the quick dry concrete so we went back to get that). Of course, I will be wearing the same clothes as they are ruined now. And lastly we might make a wooden form, as I believe gravity to be the reason the attempt failed. 

 

Painting Pals 2

 It's been a few weeks since I started that painting class with my sis and I thought I'd give an update.

I finished my first painting from the class! I didn't bring it home yet as it is drying but I did manage to snap a couple of pictures of it. The original artist is Lawren Harris.

I also started on a second painting from a photograph in a magazine. I did some of the under painting. It will be a fun one too. I learned that I can use a rag dipped in terpentine and add some paint to use for the background. I am trying not to be too precious with it and just enjoy the process.

My next painting will be a still life or a painting from one of my photographs and I will think about that one some more.