Painting

So, if you are on facebook, you know that I've been painting. I haven't blogged much about the agonies, but it's been slow. Very Slow. We're not completely done with the project yet, but we completed some major milestones over the weekend, and I thought I would share them with you.

Back in July Jeff and I moved out of our bedroom to make way for the boys. This left our bed in the Living/Family/Dining room for 3 months. I finished this room in record time - it was the beginning of the project, and I was on top of things!!

This is Josiah's half of the room - he likes straight lines, everything in it's place. He's a black and white kid, and his half of the room shows it.

This is Tye's half of the room. Notice the curvy road and the alternating colors for the stripe in the road. Yes, this did create a conflict. Yes, there were tears. Yes, I did, as Mom of the Year, convince my boys that they could live together and still have different opinions. Just don't ask Josiah to sleep in Tye's half of the room.

Then we had a very long pause in the project. Due to some poor planning on my part, we were due to paint the inside of the cottage at the same time we were pushing to finish the paint project on the outside of the house so we could beat the winter rain. So, with Jeff and I sleeping in the Family/Living/Dining room, we did next to nothing in the cottage for about a month. When we did start working on it, the progress was agonizingly slow. But, early November brought a breakthrough -and we now have a bedroom again - YEAH!!

Jeff is hanging the closet rod in our new room. This is back in the cottage part of our house, and everything is redone, the floor, all the woodwork, and all the paint - floor to ceiling. It feels great to have it mostly done.

I'm not sure what to call this room. When it functions as it's own apartment, this is the kitchen. Since we won't be using it as a kitchen, and the door on the right is a "kitchenette", this is just kind of a sitting room. I hope to have a desk and a bookshelf by the windows (where I can see into out backyard) for my quiet time/spiritual development/teaching type books and journals and notebooks. We'll see how that works out.

And this precious room is Abby's. She moved in on Saturday night, thus giving Abby her own room for the first time in her life. It also enables me to organize her stuff in her room, and the boys' stuff in their room - theoretically. That's my project this week.