Growing Corn

This week I had the privilege 

of working on an interesting paint job.

The house had been owned by a local 

family that decided to rebuild.

Instead of demolishing their 

previous farmhouse, 

they sold it to a nice couple 

just starting out.

The house was moved over 40 miles 

in just a matter of hours.

Amazingly it survived 

the relocation with just a few cracks

in the drywall.

Included in the damage was

a beautiful mural of a cornfield

painted by a local artist in 2000, 

whom had since relocated.

The new family decided to 

keep the mural in the 

nursery for their upcoming

baby girl.

Being Pioneer Seed 

loyalists,

they had the corn grow up

in front of the  

Garst sign and 

around the corner. 

Before:

The white vertical line is the drywall repair.

After:

On an another wall 

the family chose lime green

to match the nursery bedding

We added some butterfly details.

I had a wonderful time getting 

to know this mamma-to-be,

and wish her and her 

growing family the 

best in their new home.

Teaching the kids to color on walls.

The other day I thought

(or likely said out loud)

to myself...

"Girl! You have lived here three months and not a drop of paint has splattered across the floor.

Get in gear!

Let's see those bristles bristle,

those rollers roll."

So I obeyed that smart ol' voice in my head

and got out a trusty gallon of black paint.

What?? you don't just have a spare gallon

of black paint laying around???

Slapped it up on the wall.

Followed by a couple of coats of chalkboard paint from my supplier mother.

Then I read...

"allow to cure for 1 week."

Hmmm...

Don't know that I have ever been able to wait a week for anything.

Well maybe for lolly gagging

 babies that refused birth.

But that is another story altogether.

So I did it.

Well I waited 3 days.

Then I figured that since technically

when you have a baby at home each day's length strings out ultra long. So that would be 4. 

And with the heat, 5

and the multiple wind gusts from the kids opening and shutting the door, 6 &7

 It was surely enough time.

Our hero ran to the store and bought us two boxes of chalk and away we drew.

I'm thinking of finishing off 

the entire house with it.

One. Big. Canvas.

Another paint project

My living room is finished.

Yay!!

I got my cupboard all painted up and am so

happy to be done. 

In the process, I discovered that it is waaay easier to paint at somebody else's house.

They clean up the toys before you come and don't have kids climbing up your legs!

But anyways...

I painted the cupboard red.

Like...stop sign RED.

It looked plastic.

I didn't really like it.

Sooo, I added some black

to antique it

a bit and that fixed it right up.

Today…

Finally finished my striped room painting project!  Love Love Love it, even though I might dream about yellow paint tape for a few more weeks.

Stopped by the best place in the universe for a yummy grape Italian soda and visited with my girls at the Daily Grind.

Organized my basement with my new red boxes…well not really, but I did organize a few children!

Folded 800000000000 loads of laundry and put them away. Now I hereby declare the rest of 2011 the year of the nudists, cuz I am going on strike!!