A long, long time ago….
Well....around 1 month or so, Lindo and I
found ourselves with an unexpected long weekend since his parents had to go out
of town and the boys had holidays from school…. While we were wondering about ways to make the
day off worth its while, we hit upon a great idea.
“Why don’t we paint the boys’ room?”
Yes, why indeed, any other person would ask him / herself…but
then, we are not those sane people who do everything for a very good reason, or
sometimes just because we haven’t tried our hand at it yet.
So out came the paints and out went the toy boxes and mattresses
and everything movable except for the beds. The boys had their hair covered
with old T-shirts and Tim became the official paint stirrer and Nathan was
in-charge for the food…mainly eating it :)
The previous paint was 3 walls of light yellow and one dark
blue wall…we covered all the walls with fresh yellow. It was rather easy on
the previously yellow walls, but the blue wall took quite some time. By end of
day 1, we were done with the base coats and were wondering about how we could
transform this yellow room into something that the boys would love.
Those who know our boys well know that they love vehicles,
planes…any mode of transport, so that was what it would be…next came the
green paint and we painted hills and some more hills. Lindo took the bigger
wall while I was assigned the one with the window (maybe because he knows that
I can’t draw???) We bought a sponge (Asian paint royale, none the less) and
somehow managed a semi-decent sponge finish on one wall.
2 days later we completed the project and I have to say, the
nursery kid in me is pretty pleased with my effort. I agree that the sheep that
I drew look kind of sinister (they kind of remind me of Bane from Batman…with
the neck muscles and all), but the boys didn’t notice any flaws and just loved
the whole room.
My art (i know, i draw like my kids do...sometimes even worse)
So here we are with a room that looks as good as new while
we had a lot of fun experiencing something new :)
