Safety first ... or not

Yep, that's a knife under a cracked mirror.

Last Sunday Mike took a very personal dislike to the bedroom door. It just could not stand, man! So, while I started to work on the trim in the bathroom, Mike took the door off its hinges and basically took a knife to the problem. Better than an ax, I guess?

The mirror was not made of tempered glass. At one point, Mr. Safety realized that flying shards of glass could be bad for the eyeballs, so he went off to find some safety goggles. When he didn't find them, he re-commenced with the cutting (and some swearing). I offered to run to Lowe's down the street and buy some ... but that's a silly wifey thing to do.

As you can see, one set of P.O.s used a lot of super sticky mounting squares to put these 6 mirror squares on the door. Why they couldn't just get a regular mirror, throw nail in, and hang it all normal-like is beyond us. At 6 square mirrors, you're not really saving any money. Just what is the story behind this?

Eventually, Mike got every square off. Then it was time for the Goo Gone scrubfest. I had been painting and pretending my husband wouldn't need 911 at any moment. He survived. I survived. Now the back of our bedroom door has a big brown rectangle in the center. We'll prime and paint at some point. 

In other news, here are some paint sculptures!

The coolest part about latex paint is the fun of peeling it off buckets and trays after it dries. We get a ridiculous amount of satisfaction out of this. Once we figured this out, we stopped washing out trays and buckets during clean up. Then the next day, we just peel the paint off and toss it. Or ball it up and marvel.