Busy Update for Spring

There was some Easter kissing and tie-jewelery matching...

Admiration for living room framed photos at a book club friend's home...

A sweet orchid gift from a friend!  (notice mint green paneling above fireplace, it will change this month)...

Another DC temple trip...

Sam went to Mormon Prom (another tie matching dress example!)...

Roxie went to a bereavement camp for children 8-16...

Tying a note she wrote to Max onto a pink balloon she chose for him...

Standing with her camp buddy for the weekend:  1 counselor per child ratio.

Then more presentations, the youth told their favorite part of the camp (Roxie said riding the horses was the highlight) and love stones with a word the counselor noticed about the youth (Roxie's was strength) and then a word of hope for them and their future (Roxie's was Love)...

Beautiful, amazing program, good practical advice, good therapy, good new friends.

And my favorite:  monarch butterfly launch, each child presented with an envelope...

And a quick picture from wedding shower I hosted last weekend-notice the paneled wall, needed a different color to highlight the banner, so a quick pink coat.  Yes, I paint for parties.

Non-Headboard Solutions

Client's master bedroom. Gorgeous colors ("Rain Mist" from McCormick, background color)
Space between Pottery Barn shabby chic shelf and bed.

Personalized monogram in silver metallic painted over Payne's Grey acrylic.

Picking Just One Is A Choice

We are coming up on our first kiss anniversary, March 26th, as John reminds me, and keeps track of amazingly. He remembers all the details, birth weights of the kids, years they were born, ss#'s. As I filled out our Census form he helped me on the years (I insisted that I wanted to do it! It was fun, being on the homeowner's end of the process.)

I helped deliver--I can't tell you how many--of these forms! DO IT! Deadline April 1st to mail in. If you don't, then more Census workers will have to come and find out why you didn't answer. PLEASE! EASY, 10 minutes or less; commercial over.

We ran out of room for inhabitants living here on the first pages. (What would the Tallyman say? I've been watching BBC's "Lillies" and 3 adults, four children per house in Liverpool after WWI was the rule. My favorite line is listening to the father toast his daughter at her wedding; he recounts his failure at getting flowers to grow in his backyard, but he sees his daughters as his lillies.)

(I think I talk with elliptical phrases, too.)

Maybe I forget dates because I know he will remember?

Ohh, wow! It works! Control over blog photo sizes! I learned how to resize photos yesterday from http://funkyjunkinteriors.blogspot.com/

This picture crops out the four differently painted surfaces seen from this angle of the front hallway. (I am itching to repaint. Seriously thinking some lighter colors, even though I love dramatic dark intense ones. I really, really want to paint a black and white checkerboard on my kitchen floor tiles, covering grout lines permanently stained gray-who uses gray grout?)
Oops, 5. Teal glossy living room, salmon long hallway, Tiffany blue under clock (behind my head) green going downstairs and yellow around the corner from the salmon. I have too many favorite colors!

BEFORE

AFTER I buzzed him close.


More after, he shaved. Max is in his high school's musical "Annie." He is practicing his wardrobe costume. You can call him "Daddy W." Suzu got the giggles when she saw him, commenting on how shiny he is! (I thought there was an "e" in shine-y. Thank you, Miss Spellcheck.)

Sunny Days and Bright/Right Colors

The worse thing about glasses that automatically tint in sunlight: they do no good driving in sunshine. Behind the car windows, they don't turn dark enough to be any good. 2nd worse thing: take a long time to un-tint going from outside to inside. Maybe it is old technology. These are my favorite glasses, going on 5 years old...I lost them for a month (painting day upheaval makes dangerous piles) and I am happy to have them back! I wouldn't get tinting-changing ones again.

Packing for my mural-job-trip, babysitting Peach Pit today, and color-matching a quilt to paint colors for a job when I come back from SCL trip. It is much easier to buy the fabric collection first. Choose and order the bedding and THEN pick paint colors. Don't do it the other way around. And check them in the lighting where they will be, with the rug and any other variables in place. Better to be safe, than paint it over and over trying to get it right. Like I have done.