10 step makeover!

Step 1: Clean out office to take a slightly less embarrasing "before" picture of all of our clutter.

Step 2: Trace and cut out the road. Enter husband who asks "Are you building a super highway on our dining room table?" Tape the pattern to the office wall carefully recording the corresponding number three times for each set of vinyl stickers. Yes, it's kinda like engineering.

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Step 3: Paint three coats of magnetic paint on the bottom to make the wall a giant magnet board.

Step 4: Paint two coats of green chalkboard paint. Sweet talk hubby into painting two coats of blue paint on the top of the wall and surrounding walls

Step 5: Add vinyl road stickers. Remember that you are not an engineer when you start matching up the curves. Ugh.

Step 6: Add the adorable car and street sign stickers. Thank you HappyRomi from eBay! I "heart" your vinyl stickers!

Step 7: Add the cute car and street rugs (yeah Ikea!)

Step 8: Trick you sister into coming over for "lunch" and "helping you with a few things" Hang the cool clothesline for Charlie's art work and a couple of cool license plates. Drag in all the fun stuff- blocks, growth chart, table puzzles!

Step 9: Set up all the super fun art supplies and Ikea easel (what a steal $14.99!)

Step 10: Wait for the most precious Russian angel to come home and play with all of his great stuff!

While you were out.....

While Chad was on the White Water trip last week, I had a little project to keep me busy- Charlie's bathroom! Here are the before and after pictures. I love it. I am trying to stay as busy as possible, it's really how I deal with, well whatever it is that I am dealing with waiting for Charlie to come home. Next task, converting our messy cluttered office into a office/kid friendly playroom. Now for that, there may not be any "before" pictures! That would be embarrassing!

Only one question- how long does blue paint take to get out of dogs fur?

Ta-Da!

Yippee! We have a complete robot bed, built just for Charlie, by his dad. His eyes are click on night lights, his ears those little door stopper thingies, and his face opens up to store all of Charlie's treasures. I was waiting  to post this because Mr. Robot needed a smile painted and Chad had been gone all week on a white water rafting trip with the youth group. So here he is.....I love him! How fun!

Wall Art

Some cute stickers in colorful frames for the nursery (maybe the bathroom?)
Also, a close up of his rug with the gears.
I picked out some paint samples to duplicate the gears on the walls too. Nothing really matches that well. Maybe I can roll up the entire rug and take it to Sherman Williams? That would be special.
But I did decide that my dream job would be a "color namer" I LOVE reading the names and trying to figure out how they came up with names like "tangerine tango" and "leap frog green". If I could name cosmetics too that would be an added bonus.
Love it!