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Busy, is the word to describe today…and yesterday.  I love days like this.  We have been in a flurry of finally getting back to unpacking, painting and getting started with decorating.  With snow falling outside, it’s the perfect time to work on inside projects since I know that soon enough spring will sneak up on us and I will have every minute counted getting a new garden and farm going here.

We are done painting the living room (except one wall which is really high and no idea how we will do it without a ladder), the dining room and the kitchen.  I finally got around to staining the farmhouse table I had made nearly two years ago now and the shelves I meant to put in our Florida dining room are now up in our new dining room.  I will be sharing tomorrow, when hopefully there will be adequate lighting to take some pics.  In between the painting, staining, hanging shelves and reupholstering the two chairs that I scavenged last year to go with our table, I decided to sneak in some decorating projects.

I had pinned this from Pinterest and in my attempt to make the things I actually pin, as well as needing some love for this little corner of our family room, I made this sign.  It is made from lumber probably left over from building all the decks on this house and it is super heavy but it was made from materials we already had and I love it.  Next time, I would use pallet wood which is lots lighter but what is done is done.  When I brought the wood inside, Poppa gave me the “oh no you didn’t” look and I totally understood.  The wood was almost black and it was totally frozen from being behind one of our out buildings.  An hour by the heater and a good scrubbing followed by a white washing and I was ready to make a sign.  Eddie cut the boards down to the size I needed and I attached some wood leftover from the boys Ikea beds to the back for support, tied a long piece of jute to the back and drew and painted the words on.  I don’t have a stencil, so I made one.  Erica and I took turns painting in the letters until our backs would start to hurt and then I would start doing some of the other projects until I felt up to painting again.

So much more to do but I should probably slow down a bit and take a nap with my baby…that is a project worth all the projects in the world.  See you tomorrow for some pics of the finished diningroom 🙂

We finally have a few days where we have nothing else to do but what I have been waiting to do since we got here, paint.  The paint was purchased back in early November and has been waiting in a closet until there was time.  This house was recently painted and with good paint too but the colors are warm, very warm and I am feeling the need for light.

So yesterday, after we finished our school lessons, I called a painting weekend.  I told the kids to put on their work clothes and then I realized, I don’t really know where mine are.  A quick search produced my work clothing, these overalls.  These overalls which are now about the age of Erica, 14.  They are soft and comfortable with room enough to be worn during those last weeks of pregnancy when I develop the urge to paint and make things anew.  They have seen me through all of our garden seasons, construction projects and paint, oh yes they have done alot of painting.  Looking at them yesterday while painting, I saw the paint from our last three houses.  Oh, I realized that I really am a one trick pony who always picks very much the same colors for home.  Yes, these overalls are an old friend.  they would not be worth a thing to anyone else but I love them so.

We painted until dinner time when Poppa brought home a pizza party, at which point no one wanted to paint anymore.  The kids went off to have a movie night and I melted into a rocking chair to finally catch up on Downton Abbey, I am a whole season behind and enjoyed it so much though I will say, Lady Sybil dying was not a great twist to the plot.  I needed a project to work on while watching a few hours or TV last night so I cast on another longie for Mateo using my handpainted yarn, do you remember that project?   Some popcorn made with browned butter and I was a happy momma.

Today, it’s back to painting.  I hope to share a few before and afters with you soon.