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EditSept. 17, 2021: National Gold Award Girl Scout James Wall (they/them) has requested that their speech remain as they originally wrote it in 2019. Girl Scouts of Western Washington recognizes that gender is not binary, and we welcome children from across the gender spectrum: those who identify as transgender, agender, androgynous, etc., and those who are in transition or questioning their gender identity.

In middle school, our troop leaders encouraged us to run meetings ourselves, developing agendas and having the awareness to stay on task. We planned trips and pitched them in power point presentations to our parents. We sold Girl Scout cookies to raise money, and I wrote a song that we sang during site sales. Some of my favorite memories as a Girl Scout have been standing outside a Safeway in the cold, bursting into song every time we saw someone walk out the door.

In high school, we realized that if any of us were to start on our Gold Award, we would need to complete two journeys. For our Girltopia journey, we developed a Respect Workshop, an anti-bullying workshop that taught middle school girls not only how to be kind to one another, but also how to love themselves.

By earning my Gold Award, I honed valuable leadership, organizational, and community problem solving skills that will empower me for the rest of my life. However, these skills were built on a foundation going all the way back to my first three random acts of kindness as a Brownie. Over the years, I learned how to manage money from selling Girl Scout cookies, how to become a leader through the support of my service unit, how to be an organized thinker by watching troop leader Cathy Whiteside plan encamporees for hundreds of girls, and how to be a kind friend by becoming a sister to every Girl scout. These are skills that every Girl Scout carries forever.

Every time that I mentioned that I was going to have a bat mitzvah to my friends at school, they would say that they wanted one, too. They imagined a big celebration, a party with cake and games and dancing. They never realized it requires a lot of hard work.

I never wanted my bat mitzvah to be in a synagogue in Seattle, where I live. I thought that such a special occasion deserved a special location. I wanted to connect with my heritage and be with my godfather, Hen Mazzig, who grew up in Israel and is a writer, speaker and activist for the Zionist cause.

Instead of being afraid, I imagined that they were fans who came to the Kotel to celebrate with me. It reminded me of my daydream of being a star goalkeeper making a decisive save in the World Cup final, where the crowd goes wild cheering for me.

Getting bat mitzvahed at the Kotel was not just for me, but for all the girls to follow. Though I was not able to read from the Torah as I had planned, I hope that Jewish girls after me will have this basic right.

I never thought that as soon as I became a bat mitzvah, everything would change. I know I still have a lot ahead of me in the process of becoming an adult. It will be years before I can drive, get a job, rent an apartment, or have kids of my own.

Lucia da Silva, 13, lives in Seattle, where she will be in eighth grade this fall at Hamilton International Middle School. Lucia is a soccer goalkeeper, a basketball point guard, and a teen fellow at the Tel Aviv Institute, where she advocates for equality and inclusivity in the Jewish community.

Our eyes quickly became attuned to the subtleties of this process. We learned about the particular density and thickness of the 6H pencil mark, about the way the lead reacted to the textured surface of the wall, and about the small hand movements necessary for controlling the line.

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For dimension, I added a few outlines with a fine-tip Sharpie and painted flowers from a plastic floral stem to apply to the cap for the look of a vintage petal swim cap. You may also consider paper flowers if your dive girl wall art DIY is not going into a humid space.

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Remove your baseboards. Trust me. It will be way less work to reinstall them than try to work around them. Also remove outlet and switch covers and tape off all outlets to keep drywall cement out of them.

Using a thick nap paint roller, apply a generous amount of mud to the wall. Using a roller allows you to get more compound on the wall faster than if you were scooping it out with a putty knife. You can pour joint compound into a roller tray or dip the roller directly into the 5 gallon bucket.

One more thing; Just like with new drywall, make sure to prime skim coated walls with a PVA primer before painting. PVA primer seals the pores, and prepares the walls for paint. A lot of paint nowadays, is paint+ primer in one bucket but I always use PVA primer first. It dries quickly and then I can move on to paint.

I have an older home (built in 1985) and the walls and ceiling are very bumpy. I despise it and want to get rid of it all. Is this the best method for my walls and ceiling as well? Its small home 1,000 sq ft.

Great read. Well done. An alternative method (but equally laborious) is to sand the walls down using a finishing sander. It takes out all the plaster pimples and creates a very smooth finish. The new paint then does the same job of filling as the process you have just described. I did this to my last home and was immensely proud. Most people never noticed the amount of work that goes into creating brilliant walls, but it makes a huge difference. Well done to you and keep up the great work.

If you have it in the budget, it might be worth buying a heavy duty, power drywall sander. I have a Festool but there are a lot of other brands at lots of different prices. They get heavy but man do they sand fast! You can use a really course grit sandpaper to take off that heavy texture.

Thank you for posting. Texturing walls is a time-honored method of adding character to a wall or covering such imperfections as drywall taping inconsistencies but not everyone loves the ridges and swirls of knock-down or the soft ripples of orange peel.

Just found your site through a search for how to skim coat and love it! Just started on my office this week and it is so satisfying! I am wondering if you do your ceilings as well? I think I would faint from the dizziness and wondered if it would be strange just to leave them and try not to look? Haha!

I have removed pre-pasted wall paper that was applied with paste activator and scrubbed down walls twice to remove residual paste. In another area removal of different paper (applied earlier) pulled part of the paint (primer?) from the drywall and that area was also scrubbed. Can I skim coat both areas without additional treatment first?

We have a straw bale house in NW Florida with interior (and exterior) tinted true stucco walls with the sand grit prominently raised. Our son with Down Syndrome has problems with the dust which catches on the walls as we use a ceiling fan regularly and he IS a guy re: house cleaning. What is the best way to smooth the finish? Must I skim coat with sheet rock mud? can that be tinted or must it then be again painted? Is there a thick paint I can just roll on? As you can imagine this is a low budget DIY project. Suggestions?

The child, Alysson Pinto-Chaumana, and her mom, along with a few friends, were visiting another friend on Harman Street, a three-story building in Bushwick, around 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 29, 2019, when the accident happened.

The group was outside waiting near the front door on an enclosed patio next to a 68-inch-high wall that fenced in the patio. The decorative wall had a base of heavy stone pillars topped with stone horizontal plates. Without warning, according to the indictment, the pillars and horizontal plate fell inward onto Pinto-Chaumana, crushing her skull and causing her death -- right in front of her mother.

"I saw it all come down, crushing her head," the distraught mother, Maria Lorena Chaumana, recounted in Spanish at the time as she held a photo of her little girl. "I desperately picked her up -- I picked up my daughter, crying out to her."

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