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Saturday, September 5, 2009

They're here!!!

The items I bought from Red Envelope got here on Wednesday I think, I put the candelabra in its new home right away, and I even started hanging the picture frames... but I ran into a big problem :-( The wonderful instructions that came with it didn't specify what drill bit size to use, so I used one smaller than 1/4" from the look of the plastic anchors, the weird thing is that I even had to use a hammer to put them in because they were such a tight fit on the wall, but when I started putting the supports for the poll using the drill, the screws pushed the anchors INSIDE the wall!!! My theory is that the "walls" of the anchors that keep it on the external side of the wall are not big enough, and their diameter is too similar to the anchor's body... So I need to figure out a way to fix that... Hmmm... Or I could go to Lowes and see if they sell anchors that are the same size but have a bigger "ring" surface... Aha!!! Problem (almost) solved!!! I will post pictures of that as soon as I get it up.

During the week I also saw that Pottery Barn had a sale, and a table clock that I had been eyeing was really inexpensive now, so I bought it, and it's now gracing one of the end tables :-)

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Las cosas que compre en Red Envelope llegaron el miercoles, se me hace, y puse el candelabro en su nueva casa inmediatamente, y hasta empece a colgar los marcos para las fotos, pero tuve un GRAN problema :-( Resulta que las super instrucciones no especificaban que tamano de broca usar, y viendo el tamano de las "anclas" (como se llaman? Taquetes?), decidi usar la broca de menos de 1/4 de pulgada, y parecia que iba bien porque hasta batalle para meter las anclas y use un martillo para ponerlas, pero a la hora de empezar a poner los soportes para la varilla en la que se cuelgan los marcos usando el taladro como desarmador, las anclas se METIERON a la pared!!! Mi teoria es que las anclas estan mal disenadas y las "paredes" que le permiten permanecer en la parte exterior de la pared estan demasiado cortas o que el diametro es muy similar al diametro del cuerpo del ancla... Asi que necesito ver como arreglar eso... Mmmm... Podria ir a Lowes y ver si tienen anclas de ese tamano en las que tengan la superficie del "anillo" mas grande!!! Aja!!! Problema (casi) resuelto!!! Voy a postear fotos ya que este colgado...

Durante la semana tambien mire que Pottery Barn estaba teniendo una especial y un reloj de mesa que habia estado mirando durante un tiempo estaba super barato, asi que lo compre, y ahora esta sobre una de las mesas en la sala :-)

2 comments:

N. said...

Pilar, it looks beautiful! I love your color scheme.

Maria said...

LOVE all of it!!