As promised...

Here are the pictures of my living room color.

The first one is the best representation of the actual color. It's so hard to take true color pictures of wall paint. The last one really looks way more olive than it is. I will take more pictures when I get the couch covers on the love seats. It might be awhile before I actually find the rug I want. It will definitely be awhile before I get the floor done. But at least the living room will have a decorated feel to it again. It's been a long time since I've spent anytime decorating the living room.

Today's big news!

Ok...twice now I hit the enter button instead of the tab and published my post with an empty space where the blog should have been! haha. I so need a brain. If anyone has an extra one, please send it my way.


So on to my big news! I painted most of my living room today. I will finish it tomorrow, but I wanted the bird's area to be completely dry and hardened before I put them back in place. I also need to nail down the floor trim. Even though I will be replacing the floor, I want the trim down for now. It could be awhile before I get the floor done in here. I have other things that will need to be done before I can do the floor. I have some trim that was given to me free and so it is no loss if I don't keep it. The walls are long enough that I will only have to do minimal cutting so I could still use it again if I like.

I would post a picture showing the paint, but it is too late now. I will take some pics tomorrow and post them then.

The color is green, but it is a very specific green that I took from the rug that was down on the floor when I decided that I wanted to paint. I am such a good procrastinator, though, that the rug is now long gone. I still like the color, though, and especially now that it is on the walls. It is a bright green. I would describe it as a light olive green with lime thrown in for fun. When people ask me I tell them it is "pukey" green. That's the nearest I can do, but I love it and it's exactly what I wanted. I NEVER pay full price for paint because I can mix my own colors, so I always buy returned paints. Always, that is, until I wanted this color. I hand picked this color and paid the full price to be sure it was what I wanted. The ceiling and trim are white. I'm not sure what the floor will be yet. I got couch covers that are striped in gray, tan, white and brown. I am going to use a lot of brown accents. I think I will make a cover for the little waiting room couch in either gray or the white. I haven't decided yet. I want the curtains to be brown, but I might change my mind about that. I have to go look at fabric before I make a final decision. I am so excited to finally have a decorated living room again. It should be done before summer. I'm not sure if I can get it done before my birthday or not. Cost will be a factor in that because I will need a rug and I want a square one and they are not easy to find and not cheap when found.
I'm just so excited to finally be decorating my living room. It's been a long time coming.

It may not be the most exciting news in the world to anyone else, but to me it is BIG news! LOL.

It is April 5th already.

Haha...accidentally published this with just the title. I doubt anyone saw it, though!

I can't believe it's already April 5th. Only 20 days until my birthday. This is my BIG 60 birthday and it's on my list of 101 Things to do in 1001 days. My goal for this birthday was to have a birthday party. It will be a goal not reached because I don't want to have a birthday party. It just sounds like too much work. I have other things that I'd rather do and, in addition to that, I work on my birthday. I'm not really a party girl. I'm more of a hermit girl. It takes a major sized crowbar to pry me out of my house. I just like being left alone. Is that bad?

In other news: I thought I took some really cute videos of Daelin talking and doing "Itsy, Bitsy, (or Eensy, Weensy, ) Spider" with his mom. Very cute! Sadly, it's not on film. Apparently when it says "standby" on the screen it is recording and when it says "record" on the screen it is on standby. I should have remembered this from Scott's graduation. Scott is a nephew. I "video-taped" his graduation. I have a wonderful tape of the floor while I waited for him to walk to his diploma. I do not have a tape of him walking to get his diploma. So, as you can see, it is not only my older age that causes my brain to misfire.

Today I painted the birds's corner. I just did one coat and haven't even filled the holes, yet, but wanted to see what I thought of the color now that it's actually on the walls. So far, I really like it. It's different, but I think it will be great once I pull it all together with the curtains and such! I need to go shop for fabric, even though I have half a fabric store right here in front of me while I type this.

That's it for today. I'm looking forward to my day off tomorrow so I can continue painting. I'm not going to fill the holes in the walls behind the birds, anyway. I need to leave them until I know what I am doing with that area because it is going to change. I've got a couple of different ideas gelling in my brain. I am not sure just what I'm doing there, but it will be different and I might need a couple of those holes to fasten my "idea" to the wall.

Happy Easter

My blogs seem to be picture heavy, lately. It could be because I'm spending so much time with my photos lately in an effort to get them organized, labeled, tagged, and edited. It could also be that I'm just feeling a little lazy about writing. If a picture says a thousand words, then I'm doing some pretty long essays here. I will put the short version above each photo.
These are all from when we used to do Easter in California. Oh wait! The first two pics are from up here in Washington.

Gotta love eggs colored by children!


I don't know which expression sums this picture up!



Gotta love the squinty face!



Like any hunter, Jeren is proud of his catch!



Power to the almighty EGG!



Another expression essay. Is she smiling or plotting?
Is the other one frowning or squinting?
Only the hairdresser knows for sure! haha.


Showing Isaac how to hunt for eggs.


Helping Mikaila and AJ hunt for eggs.


Rhyan finds an egg!

Big trees.

The theme for this month is big. These are the trunks of the BIG Douglas fir trees that reside in my side/back yard. I love these trees and I just wish the back area of the yard was really as nice as this makes it look, but I still have a lot of work to do back there. The area behind them is where I had Glen bulldoze to move all the debris to the very back, up against the fence. Included in that debris is a blue Volkswagen body. That blue Volkswagen used to belong to my mom many moons ago. If you look really closely you can see just a bit of it sticking out by the one tree. (It is the far right tree in the bottom picture and the left tree in the second picture and you can barely see the blue about a third of the way up.)
I want to make this whole area a natural area for the birds and such, with paths and native plants. I'm hoping to get it at least half done this summer.

I was hoping at one time to keep the Volkswagen body. When the boys were little they used to love to play in it and I had an idea to put it up on a wooden platform and keep it for a play area for the grandkids, using a wooden box for a seat instead of the seats. It turned out that is was in rough shape, though, by the time I uncovered it. Brambles and such had grown over it in the years when I was working so much I didn't have time for that part of the yard. It got pretty rusty and parts of it were unsafe, which is why I had Glen bulldoze it into the hill of debris. I will just have it hauled, instead, and maybe I can build a wooden "car" or get a boat to put back there in the nature area. I just think it would be nice to have a little something back there for children. I remember as a child loving to sit in my Grandpa's model A that was up on blocks in Grandma's back yard. It was a nice place to pretend or have a little solitude.
The wind has been fierce the last few days but my huge trees are taking it well and hopefully they will, yet, for years to come. I can't wait to make that a little nature sanctuary back there and hope to have a nice spot back there where I can sit and relax, maybe read a book or lie in a hammock and take a nap.