Blue Moon

Karate Kid has been patiently waiting for us to work on his room, so we started it. I am hoping to finish it soon, but you never know what will come up.

  After the first coat, it looks great! I am thinkin' only one more coat! Hooray!

 My parents also bought him this Moon in My Room to put up. We are very excited!

 Has anyone else noticed the weird scent left behind a few days after you paint??

Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man!

So, my honey is AMAZING! I'm sure you knew that. If you remember "the thing" in the kitchen, it has water and ice but it wasn't hooked up. In fact, the house didn't have the plumbing to hook up a refrigerator with water and ice. Lovely.

Super Honey to the rescue! (I KNOW! Hot.)

 

 He got "dawn" and dirty! lol (slapping knee) 

 

It didn't take him long to get the piping all set up and with a little help from Moi, it was done!

 Ah. Water. Now this is quality H2O.

Baby, It's Cold Outside

So, whenever it's cold outside, weird things happen in our house.

 This happens.

   Yes, That is our dog, Atlas, standing in front of the heater and letting it blow on him. He will stand there all day if we let him.

 Also, this happens.

  Those are ponies. Every pony we own. All on the stairs.

 But, all in all, it's all right. My honey insisted we watch the 49ers vs. Giants game last night, "Since it will determine who plays in the SUPERBOWL!!!" So we did.....and do you know what? It was the best time as a family we've had in a long, long while.

 Home is but our Heaven on Earth.

Through Rose Colored Glasses

Yesterday I spent ALL DAY working on Little Miss and Chickie's room. ALL DAY! Then, when it came time to take our children over to our friend's house for our weekly date swap co-op, I enlisted my Honey to help me too! (Which, I should tell you, he hated doing...complained the WHOLE time)

 But, alas, all was not well as we finished the second coat only to find that we STILL SEE THE WALL!! AGH! So, today I get to buy another gallon of Bright Black Raspberry. Apparently, according to Honey, here is where I went wrong.

 
 Yep. Those are rollers in my children's hands. Here I thought I was being a good mommy by letting them help paint the room and it turns out my "foundation coat" was the most important of all. Oh well. I didn't know.

 

 The good thing is the color is AWESOME! It's so My Little Pony, I almost can't handle it. This is a picture of the first coat. I couldn't get a good one of the second last night because it was so dark.

I would have to say that even with Karate Kid stepping in the paint and getting it all over his leg and Little Miss accidentally wiping paint all over herself, it was fun. Chickie, of course, was totally offended that she wasn't helping and when we were all done, she decided she was tired. I was glad the room was pretty aired out and I had bought the good paint without the harmful VOCs because there was NO WAY I was waking up that grumpy kid.

Now THIS is Overstimulation!

My honey loves me and my crazy ideas of color, but I wanted to show a few houses that are even MORE outrageous than my ideas! I found these while searching for inspiration. I think I got it!

 from HouseBeautiful

 from Dornob

 from Swastana

From UglyHouse (although I kinda liked it)

I feel like painting!!!!!

To Build or Not to Build!?

So I have this thing with shelves!! I can't seem to live without them everywhere. My honey feels that built in shelves are "old" and he likes a modern look. Which, frankly, isn't going to happen in THIS house. But I had an idea today and spent a whole hour drawing this out on the computer. Thank you SNOW DAY! So here's my idea.

 Here's how things currently look.

 The idea is to add floor to ceiling shelves. Cover the middle with glass inlaid doors and have cabinets on the bottom. Do you see it? The vision. I would do this on the whole wall, but I couldn't get a whole wall photo without running into the rats. So imagine the same thing mirrored on the other side of the door.

 I have two problems with this. The Smoke Alarm and the Thermostat. Would it look ok to leave them? Would YOU move them?

 Give me your opinion!

My Vision: Part 2 - the Kitchen and Front Room

Moving on from the kids' rooms - to be honest I don't know in what order I will get this all done - we have the kitchen. It's a main hub in our house since right now the door we use opens right up into it. Right now it's a pale blue.

Here's my inspiration board and ideas for my kitchen!! YES! YELLOW!!!

 My Honey says that people coming over to our house will be attacked with an onslaught of color. Good. That's exactly what I like. I LOVE color. It makes me happy and up here, when it's cold and grey, color helps me.

 Our front room is currently a lovely (cough, gag, cough) beige. I don't like beige really.

 Instead, picture it GREEN!!! Happy Saint Patrick's Day - all the time! I'm sure he'll love it. It will be quite enjoyable, I'm sure.

Now, don't you just LOVE this chandelier??