Sentences with phrase «the old painted»

If there's a blip on this otherwise impressive record, it's Cool's experience with Benjamin Moore, the 131 - year - old paint company Cool was sent in to help after a slew of management and strategic problems (Fortune profiled the business» blues last month).

At a youthful 12 years old the paint is barely dry on Cy's squiggles.

Surely it is one of the sharpest ironies of this particular divine comedy that by telling the truth in such a way, he will come in later years to be thought of as a forger of old paintings — a counterfeiter of truth.

Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent.

Reconditioning involves stripping old paint and wax off of the steel, then repainting and reapplying fresh wax to each component.

With less than seven weeks to go before the season opener, and with the imminent start of pre-season training, my confidence for the new campaign has descended to lower basement level along with the old paint pots, spare lawn mower parts and unopened gym equipment.

It may be in your family's home, including in some older paints, the soil, and some imported mini blinds.

The pool required almost $ 40,000 in repairs in April, when a sandblasting process to remove old paint and debris also disintegrated the concrete.

It is essential that you get advice before performing any chore that involves the old painting.

«Three, four months pregnant, they start sanding down the old paint,» he says.

Although I really love this pram and how much you pay for it I wouldn't expect after a month old the paint starting to chip off near the wheel which I know is from putting it up and down in concrete so in a car park or driveway.

Consumer Reports just finished testing 65 interior paints and found that 20 of our top picks — all self - priming — let you skip priming and paint directly over everything from old paint or wallpaper to new unpainted drywall or wood.

My 19 month old painted a little scene too but that didn't last very long as she was more interested in crumpling the paper.

Expectant moms shouldn't even help scrape off the old paint, as the risk of lead toxicity remains high for all homes built before 1976.

An old painting found in the excavated ruins of King Sardanopolis of Ninevah — 888 BC depicts a mother with something resembling a milk feeding bottle in one hand and a spoon kind of structure in another.

Scraping and sanding old paint should be completely avoided.

My 4 yr old painted the canvas blue.

Old paint and dust from lead paint are considered to be the leading pathways for exposure in children.

Use it on old paint until you see bubbles, and then remove with a putty knife or paint scraper.

The scraper will help you remove old paint or epoxy.

Dhambalin is a rock art site in the desert, about 20 miles from the Red Sea, where there are 5,000 - year - old paintings of animals in red, green, pink, white, brown, yellow, and black.

Retired University of Texas archaeologist Solveig Turpin, who began researching in the Lower Pecos in the 1970s, believes connecting 4,000 - year - old paintings to a contemporary tribe is unwarranted.

She says it wasn't actually the Huichol who made the 4,000 - year - old paintings — it was their distant ancestors or relations.

The oldest paintings were identified by analysing overlapping superimpostions of art in various styles as well as numerical dating.

NIST chemist Tom Bruno, who invented a method for recovering trace chemicals such as environmental pollutants and forensic evidence, uses a portable version of the instrument to sample vapor inside an old paint can.

Some is of their own making, like cigarette smoke, but a lot of it they can not avoid, like lead in old paint and smoggy urban air.

Then last July, Josef Wegner, an archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, announced that he and colleagues from Yale University and New York University had found a 3,700 - year - old painted clay birth brick that shows a woman transformed into a goddess at the moment of giving birth.

Their larvae develop in water that collects in natural and manmade containers such as birdbaths, vases, animal water dishes, flower pots, discarded cans, old paint buckets, or other neglected / discarded water - holding objects (Rey and Connelly 2013).

You know youre supposed to recycle, but what should you do with your light bulbs, your old paint cans, or your dead car battery?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the best ways to lower lead levels in the body are to eliminate sources of exposure (like old paint in homes built before 1978), and to eat healthy foods with calcium, iron, and Vitamin C — nutrients that «may help keep lead out of the body.»

Next Page: Keep it clean [pagebreak] Keep it clean Infection might not seem like a big gardening hazard, but the soil in your yard might be, well, soiled with lead and other toxic chemicals from old paint and plumbing, contaminants from pesticides and parasites from pet or wild - animal droppings (hello, giardia and toxoplasmosis), not to mention tetanus and E. coli.

If you live or work in an older home or office building you may be exposed to old paint that contains led, so take care when removing old paint and keep children away.

Check the home for old paint, glass, wood preservatives, discarded batteries, and PVC plastic materials.

Lead harms almost every system in the body, so be careful when removing that stubborn old paint from walls, as it could hold traces of the dangerous chemical.

You have so many wonderful projects but what caught my eye was that you could clean an old paint brush with vinegar!

I was totally expecting the same old painted mason jars.

I even had David help me for awhile, scraping off as much old paint as he could.

I've been trying to paint my nails to see if I can stop messing with them but they always look like a 3 year old painted them!

Things I absolutely love about this space: ☆ The adorable hello doormat ☆ The milk can turned umbrella stand ☆ The waves and cracks in this old plaster wall ☆ The old painted door ☆ The yellow rain boots I bought to wear on my wedding day in case it rained (I now wear them when working outside!)

The minute I found the old paint splattered stepladder, I knew immediately what I was going to do with it.

I love how it picks up on the old paint on the corbels... which we are not painting, by the way.

I haven't seen her older paintings before, and I'm glad you shared them here!

But with Annie Sloan paints, there is no need to remove the stain or varnish or even old paint!

If it were me I would seal them just as they are, leaving the old paint on the edges to show the history of the home.

Also, in years to come will I be able to paint over them without stripping the old paint color and sealant off?

If you're using chalk paint you don't have to sand it first unless the surface is really scratched up or if there's old paint on it that's peeling.

I don't normally strip old paint before I paint a piece, but in this case it was necessary, due to the 6 layers of paint that were already in bad shape.

Since the sandpaper is very fine — it will smooth over the old paint so that you a new coat of paint can be applied and still look smooth.

I can totally see our actions being depicted in one of those old paintings of our forefathers!

Instead of fussing over his T's sixty - year - old paint job or the fact that the doors no longer latch securely because the Fisher - built, wood - framed body has suffered old - age spread, he enjoys driving his car frequently, even in the dead of winter.