Sunday, February 19, 2012

anatomy of a makeover…

 IMG_2198While friend Chelby and Miss Kendell were ready for prime time, our family room most certainly was not

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For starters, some “freshening up” with a new coat of paint was much overdo at the casa de Goff.  Lucky for me (hooray!!), my dear husband voted himself to be the #1 ceiling painter—sweet!!

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As long as Paul would take care of my least favorite task of painting on the ceiling (completely different from L. Richie’s most favorite feeling of dancing on the ceiling), I promised I would take care of the rest…

IMG_2225 That  meant a layer of golden (you are my) sunshine,

IMG_2228and then a very tall  (for me) ladder (which I got to become friends with after many, many trips up and down, up and down), a very small Moroccan-motif stencil, a sponge roller, painter’s tape, some golden apricot paint, a significant amount of time (hours and hours plus many, many more hours)…

IMG_2230 and then voile!  A wallpaper stenciled wall magically (after a couple of days) appeared!!

IMG_2240 The room redo has had such a ginormous impact on Cael—actually as long as there is a steady stream of Disney Channel, he’s good…

next up, the kitchen--oohhh

Sunday, February 5, 2012

the goings-on…

IMG_1893 So this fella turned 17…

IMG_2174and requested homemade eggrolls (that actually turned out-hooray)

 IMG_2168this green kitchen got a coat of bleached wheat paint with a raw umber glaze…

IMG_2210 this fella used his superstar handyman skills to add a new backsplash to go with the new paint…

IMG_2199this little lady used her taping (and helpfulness) skills to help with the painting extravaganza…

IMG_2227 this wall got 2 coats of golden sunshine paint with a Moroccan stencil of golden apricot on top (and just a little  fyi, wallpaper stenciling is most certainly not a quicky quick little endeavor)…

  IMG_1955this fella continued to provide me with keen insight to life.  After we woke up to a couple of inches of snow the other morning, Cael brought out a pair of winter boots and his sneakers.

Cael: “Mom!  Which ones should I wear? Is it going to be an inside day or an outside day?”

Mom:“Hmm, I’m not sure, Cael…”

Cael: “But Mom!  You are smart!  You know everything!  Which ones should I wear?!”

IMG_2224 Amazing that he has the whole mom-is –so –smart thing figured out and he’s only been in 1st grade for 100 days …