Finally Had A Moment and Other Strange Things

I know, I know! I am already proving to be as good a blogger as I am at email and telephone calls. Would you believe me if I said we really have been busy?

Last weekend Dawn came down and poor thing all she did was work! (She said she liked it though.) Actually, she vowed that she would not let us go without window treatments in this house as long as we did in our last house. And she stood by her word....we hung blinds all weekend. OK, well, she pretty much did all the work but I learned a lot! And I love them. Thanks for all your hard work Dawn!

The valances in the kitchen I had actually hung in our old house but didn't like the way they looked. I like them much better here so I'm glad I saved them. I'm still working on the drapes for the living room.

This past week and this weekend we spent trying to get the John Deere room in order. We had some left over paint from the contractor that we got started with. We were almost done with the room when we started to run low. So, I copied the formula and took it to Home Depot to get a gallon more. When I got home I finished up the room and then started "touching up" spots all over the room. The next day all the spots were at least 2 shades darker than the rest of the paint. Ugh....so back to Home Depot I go. Turns out the original paint was for a five gallon bucket and I got one gallon and the guy who mixed it put all the color for a five gallon into the one gallon. So, the rest of the week I spent touching up my touch up spots. Now the paint looks great and we are on to scrubbing the floor to get it ready to seal. I was hoping we would be done with the entire room by now. It always takes me twice as long to do a project than I think it's going to. Please tell me this happens to you to!

Well, somewhere along the way all this work, or maybe the paint fumes, got to Brinn. The other evening she came around the corner looking like this:

She has long loved to put her own outfits together, but this one has to be the most interesting by far...a Kansas City Chiefs stocking hat, pink gloves, a horse watch, a swim suit, tights, and flip flops. Thank goodness she didn't want to go anywhere. I am all for free expression and creativity but I don't think I could have explained this to anyone!