Today I finished painting Daughter #2’s teal peacock room. While I was painting the walls, I decided to paint the trim, too. Doesn’t it look simply marvelous??!! THE REASON I DECIDED TO PAINT THE TRIM…. I could see every color the walls had ever been in the 11 years we have lived in this […]
Month: January 2013
THE FIRST STEP TO A TEAL PEACOCK BEDROOM
Removing furniture, taking down pictures, filling in holes, sanding, cleaning, vacuuming, taping, painting… This is how my family spent their weekend. This is the UNC Room during it’s takedown. Filling holes in the wall is never one of my favorite things to do….so I delegated it to Son #4. Taping is my job. I’m kinda […]
MUSICAL BEDROOMS ~ a little bedroom redo
I’m going to share a little bit about my homies and some crazy emotions I’m going through today. So brace yourselves!! A parent child relationship goes through many stages in the 18 years or so they live together. The relationship goes from the child needing everything from his parents to the child wanting to be […]
RESTORING STUFF FROM THE ReSTORE
How was everyone’s long weekend? Mine was full of fun shopping at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore. I love that place!!! Not only is it full of wonderful projects waiting to be done, you can’t beat the prices, and the people who work there are so friendly and helpful! Love them!! Because I’m doing […]
REMEMBERING A ROOM TRANSFORMATION ~ happy birthday!
Son #2 is a huge UNC Tarheels fan. I’m not sure why. Maybe because his older brother is a NC State Wolfpack fan. Source He also loves the Baltimore Ravens. Source Three years ago, on Son #2’s 16th birthday, he went to school just like every other school day. Little did he know a plan […]
A PRETTY PINK ROOM ~ finally!
After decorating boys’ rooms for so long (we have four boys), decorating a girl’s room was fun! We adopted our two daughters from Kazakhstan in 2005. Our first trip was for five weeks, where we met, fell in love with, and spent a lot of time with the girls. Then we came home…..without them 🙁 […]