This summer has been full of crafting and creating!! In the fall my friend Jen (pay attention, she is a reoccurring main character!!) wanted to paint her son Jacob's (so is he!!!) room and wasn't really sure what she wanted to do. She knows that I love all things decorative and asked my opinion,(I love her much,she just hasn't learned how dangerous that is yet!! Bless her heart!) and my first suggestion was to find a comforter that she liked and use it for inspiration rather than to paint the room and try to find something the other way around. One night while we were out and about we stuck GOLD!!!!
So now Jen and I had to decide how we wanted to paint the room, and she wanted to do something fun, and had been saying something about circles. I was inspired with all the color and stripes, and Jen trusted me.....
We came up with the pattern and some other crazy ideas including a new way to arrange the room. Jacob was really excited to see the progress take place!!! The ultimate goal was to paint a lion and a few other things on the wall, but instead I ended up painting the lion on a canvas. Still have a few other things up my sleeve to come once it has cooled off out side and we are trapped inside again for winter LOL!!
It stinks that I live in an apartment...I love how this looks! I wish I could paint MY walls like this!!! I am pretty sure that Jacob likes it too! When he sees the lion he says, "ROAR!!" I have to say that the taping was the hardest part, but when you have a good partner that makes it fun and some good tunes, time flies!!!
Monday was my day off, I thought before I sign off I would share a little about my day. I had to do some running around..I took Jen this wicker chest that I don't have room for anymore in my tiny apartment. Blah, Blah Blah...took some items to my FAVORITE store in Rochester, KISMET!!! It is so hard to not want to leave with everything there. There was this lime green leather chair, it was LOVE AT FIRST SITE!!! I should so be in the business that I could shop all day for other people and make there homes beautiful. I mean, I do have a degree!!! I have watched enough HGTV!!! EXCUSE ME!!! I have a LAW degree(Law and Order) AND medical degree(Grey's and ER) so why can't I have a design degree???? I don't need another chair for me or Lulu (my kitty cat, MAIN CHARACTER!!!), we have plenty already and I know I was just saying something about lack of room or something....
Truth is, if I had had the money in hand that day I would be sitting on a lime green leather chair right now. So I come home, a little sad about the chair, trying to imagine how this blog will make me rich because someone will "discover" me and I will live in a home big enough that I can have all the lime green chairs I want and paint the walls whatever colors I wish!! Just as I hit the mail box preparing my self for a bill or two I turned (I wipe a tear from my eye. sniff, sniff) the corner to see that there was a give away in the hallway that caught my eye!! (if this were a romantic comedy it would be the lime green leather chair waiting for me) But it was just a slightly beat up brown 70's era end table that matches the end tables that I already have. I knew that I had to have it and the price was just RIGHT!!! I grabbed it and as I rode the elevator to my floor not having any idea what I was going to do with it,or where in the world it would fit, I was excited about the possibility!!!
Rock on Becca! It's so awesome to see all the hard work pay off in Jacob's room. Never once during this whole process did I not trust your instincts. You turned a small boring bedroom into a functional and fun space for Jake! I think it's the best room in the house! Thank you!!
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