Bit By the Painting Bug

I'm not sure why it happens, but for some reason, when Rus goes on a work trip I usually seem to get a wild hair to do some big project around the house. And usually it involves paint. He should thank his lucky stars and send me flowers every week just to thank me for not involving him in this time consuming, laborious task. Come to think of it, not including these two rooms from this past week that I painted, I have painted five rooms (between this house and our old house) and the furthest he got involved was unscrewing face plates on outlets. He should be especially grateful not to be involved because since moving into this house I have had the opportunity to check out these really awesome model homes a few miles from us, and now I can not be content with just painting the room one color. Noooo, I have to go crazy and paint things like diamonds and checkerboards, and as you'll see below...stripes. My mom also fuels the fire when it comes to painting. Rus will be out of town, and my mom will happen to be in town, and Wah-lah! I've got the perfect catalyst for a painting explosion.

So, to get more specific, on Tuesday and Wednesday of this past week I painted Bekah and Jacob's rooms. Bekah's I wanted a limey but soft sort of green, with random stripes painted in a shade darker green. A good backdrop for all of her pink and purple girly things. Jacob's room I wanted a tanish-brownish-strawish color with a nice big blue stripe right through the middle. I have some puppy dog fabric that I was trying to match, and the tan goes really well with the puppies, and the blue goes well with the background color. I took the fabric to this awesome little copy shop here in town (happens to be owned by two identical twin brothers...for the life of me I can never tell which one is helping me...it is the same one that I had that conversation with last time, or is that the other one?...This would be a good place to enlist the help of nametags!) Anyways, there are lots of different little puppies on the fabric, and the guy enlarged seven of them so that each dog fills up a sheet of paper. Then I spray glued each dog onto a piece of mdf wood, cut it out, and now I'm going to hang the puppies on the blue stripe in Jacob's room. Hmmm, that would be better explained in a picture, but oh well... :) Maybe when it's finished.

This is Bekah helping us paint Jacob's room. She was SO excited to paint! I told her the night before that she could help, but she had to be wearing messy old pants and a messy old shirt. She went and found clothes right that second and slept with them in her bed. In the morning she ran in my room, fully dressed in messy attire and said, "Mommy, is it light outside?" ("Yes") "Great! Let's go paint!"

Jacob's finished room, plain and simple, all boy. :)
Bekah wouldn't just let me take a picture of the wall. She climbed up on the bed and jumped so that she'd be in the picture too.
It was sooo fun to see Bekah decorate her newly made-over room! She pulled the purple peg board out of her closed and said, "Let's hang this up!" And then she hung her dresses on it and arranged her shoes underneath.
She even arranged all of the little things on her nightstand and put the pillows where she wanted them on the bed. The bedspread is so cute, it has green butterflies and flowers quilted into it, and the other side has green material with purple stitching. We also found two big (like 4"x4") butterflies to clip up high on her canopy that are purple and green.

Well, I'm sure that's more than enough. I want you to know, that while this may have turned out really cute, it was probably more work than I would willingly face again. (I mean Bekah's room. Jacob's room was a snap, comparitively) We painted her whole room the light green (ceiling included) and then the next day I spent four very long hours prepping it so I could paint the stripes. If you ever want to do this yourself, spend at least a month bribing a close friend so that they can suffer with you.