The Makeover

So one day about a week and a half ago, Ali comes running up to me and she says she has the best idea ever. I cautiously asked her what she had in mind, and braced my self for a shocker, remembering what some of her other good ideas had brought on. (Ask me sometime about the messes she and I have gotten into with our great ideas!)

She said that she thought it would be "really cool" if her and I switched bedrooms. She said that she was tired of sleeping in her own room by herself, and that she thought I'd like having my own room. Now if you had asked me before if I'd like to have my own room, I'm sure I would have answered with an enthusiastic YES! But I was surprised to find that I was rather apprehensive. Samantha and I have shared a room since I was two years old, and the idea of being by myself didn't sound real good. when I voiced this, she replied quite quaintly that I wouldn't be by myself! I'd have Rosie. I thought this was funny, and Samantha gave her a sideways glance and said she didn't think her invaluable companionship could be replaced by a dog, and that she wasn't sure she liked the idea either. We were going to say no, but she gave us those puppy eyes, and pleased and pleaded, and finally we agreed to a one week trial period.

And we've found that we all rather like this new arrangement, and decided to make it permanent. So now came the chore of moving all our stuff from room to room. And now that we're settled, I HAVE to paint the room. The colors she had painted it were bright pink, bright yellow and bright green. And even Ali is very tired of the bright colors! I tried to take a picture of it, so you can see the before and after.

Pretty bold huh?

So I thought I'd paint it something a little more subdued. (so I could at least wake up in the morning and not feel like I'm being blinded by color!) I picked a light green, but it's hard to get a good picture of. It looks grey in the photo, but rest assured, it's light green.

So Ali helped me, until around 4pm. (We started around 2pm), and I finished the bottom two coats around 7pm. We had fun though, and I'll probably paint the upper half later this week. I think it will turn out nicely, and I can't wait to put the room back together, and see the end results. I'll put up more pictures of our progress as we go.

Our supervisor.....