Progress, Setbacks

Things are looking pretty good downstairs so far. Frankie's art area is a buttery yellow color, and the rec room is a toasty pumpkin orange. I'm really liking both the colors so far.

The problem is the hallway. We bought a color called "sunflower," and thought it would be a soft orangy-yellow. Not so much. When we put it on the walls, it was bright, eye-frying Big Bird yellow. We hoped that a second coat would mellow things out but instead it turned from Big Bird yellow to Tweedy Bird yellow.

Not good.

So today we're going to repaint the hallway. Not excited about the extra work, but it totally needs to happen. It's way too darn yellow down there.

Painting Day!

It's a long holiday weekend, and you know what that means at the Myers/Cole house?

Painting!!!!

Here's the basement, looking sad and colorless.

And here's the basement now, looking sad, colorless, and totally discombobulated. I'm headed downstairs to mask the walls now, and by the end of the day we should have about 1/3 of the giant room downstairs painted. We're going for a sunny combination of orange and yellows, and I'm hoping it won't turn out too crazy. A little crazy is ok... As long as it doesn't end up looking like the surface of the sun, I think it'll be good.

More progress updates to come....!

Mom is better than chocolate cake!!

Birthday Fun

I'm headed to Cheyenne with Dovey today to do a birthday antique store/flea market sweep. Dovey even took the day off work so he could head up there with me. I'm really looking forward to it... It should be pretty darn fun!

Later, Dove is going to babysit while Matt and I go out to dinner and a movie. I think we're going to go to my favorite restaurant, El Monte, and then see the movie Bridesmaids. (My birthday, my choice! Yay!)

This morning, I was treated to an awesome birthday song written by Frankie. She sang while Matt played the keyboard. It went something like this....

Mom is great...
She's better than chocolate caaaaaake!

So, that was awesome. So far, it's shaping up to be a pretty darn great birthday.

Ni Hao

Friday night update:

I'm obsessively playing "word bubbles" on my compter, and Matt's in the other room, learning to speak Chinese.

Matt officially wins the nightly productivity prize.

Stupid Blogger

Blogger had some sort of technical glitch and erased my most recent posts.

Grrr.

Rage.

Just wanted to vent.

The Big Sign

Check out this amazing old store sign that The Dove picked up for me at an auction.

Coolsville!

Blogger crashed and I lost the last part of this post, but in summary... Matt and Dove are awesome. I could *never* have gotten the sign purchased, transported, cleaned, or hung without them. Love you guys!