Whew. Last week was kind of a blur and our Valentine/School obligations did not leave much time for much craftiness.
The girls put together nearly 50 valentines between the two of them. Em went with the bird/owl themed ones…
We ended up using a lot of scrap paper up. And Addie went with the, what else? Cat themed ones…
She was signing the back and didn’t like that the “back kitty” didn’t have a face, so she also drew smiley faces on all of them before we attached the lollipop…
And I have saved a few bucks by making hairbows for the girls and as gifts. (Do they EAT the hairbows?) They both love to wear them, but rarely do they end up in the hair drawer. I’m not really sure where they end up.
I got an entire package of 25 alligator clips on etsy for $2.25. And some ribbon from the DollarSpot at Target (5 ribbons for $1). So each clippy bow works out to about .35 cents each. Not too shabby. Plus I don’t get all worked up if they don’t make it back home since they are kind of cheap.
I had a few other good reasons for not attacking any of the sewing projects on my list, too.
The bedrooms of Thing 1 and Thing 2. The Great-Bedroom-Painting-Projects of 2010 took up The.Entire.Weekend.
I had promised the girls that they could pick out their paint. Of course I was hoping they would pick the pretty, LIGHT color on the tops of the swatches. But both girls went with the “middle,” very-much-brighter, colors. And both of them picked their colors because they liked the names. Yes, they did. Emmy picked “Watercolor Lilies” and Addie picked “Scent of Rose.”
She screeched, “ROSE? I should pick Rose for my color, because I am Rosie, right Mama?”
Riiiight.
So after the wallcovering debacle, (Should it stay? Should it go?) five coats of paint between the two rooms, the “help” of two monkeys, and a bit of testing our very stable 16+ year marriage – the girls’ rooms are finally back in order and we are crashed on the sofa.
The unveiling of the Watercolor Lilies. Hmmm…doesn’t look too bad…
Em working the roller. She actually did a really good job and lasted for almost the entire four walls (I was betting 1 wall, tops!).
I didn’t really take a before pic, but you can see the room here from a few years ago, it didn’t look too much different.
And here it is put back together. Sort of. I don’t want to hang anything on the walls now that we worked so hard to paint them!
And then we have Addie’s, Scent of Rose. I think a “Taste” or maybe “Whiff” of Rose might have been a little bit more palatable. Scent is, well…kinda strong. It looks more like sugary, make-your-teeth-hurt-kinda sweet cotton candy. But she ADORES it. And really that is all that matters.
Addie really just wanted to write her name. She lost interest much sooner than Em did…
Checking out her pink room after it had dried overnight…
A little peek at her room, I haven’t put the curtains up or anything on the walls in here yet either. J. was helping me put all the hardware back on again. Her before room pics are also here, obviously the bed has been converted from the toddler bed.
I guess now that I look at it again, it really isn’t that bad. And it has toned down. A little…
Of course, the problem with doing house projects is that they are very satisfying, once they are done that is. Such great improvements! Just imagine if we stripped the doors and repainted the trim, too? Or maybe that hideous wallpaper in the girls’ bathroom should come down? Or we could….
(Poor J. I just know he is trying to figure out when he needs to travel again to escape my home project madness.)
