Yup, it's been a while...

...a couple of weeks, anyway.

The latest: the bathroom has been sanded. I tried to get the walls wiped down yesterday so I could prime today, but Bug had other ideas. While blocked in her room, she managed to get *both* tubs of wipes down from her shelf and was gleefully pulling each one apart when I checked on her. Then she hollered when I tried to get back to wiping. I know, I should have done it at nap time, but I was on a roll with some yarn spinning. I managed to spin 2 oz. of wool into 45 yards of 3-ply yarn during her nap. And it looks good, too!

I did get the lower (yuckier) part of the walls in the craft room washed. The top will be cake. I took some in-process pictures, but need to get them off of ~D's phone before I can post them. The paste on the bottom half of the walls was very obviously from before the ugly green layer - so the Ms stripped and re-papered, but didn't wash between. I think I scrubbed off 70 years' worth of paste and paper remnants.

The best method for washing the gunk consisted of: TSP mixed w/warm water per the box; rubber gloves; one big scrub brush; one little scrub brush; and a wash cloth. Apply water to wall (no need to scrub just yet) with the brush. I worked in vertical strips about 10 inches or so wide at a time. Start at the top of the strip. By the time you get to the bottom, the top will have soaked in enough to make the scrubbing easier. Wipe clean with the washcloth periodically and use the little brush for the smaller areas.

All told, it took probably about 6 hours to get the bottom half of the wall washed. Blech.