Makeover Monday: Veggie Tales Nursery

I apologize to everyone I’ve neglected in the past 8 days.  I’m sorry for not meeting up with you (Jen), returning your phone calls (Darcie and Chrissy), and ignoring your emails and IMs (too many to mention).

You see, this past week, I spent an estimated 48 hours painting our church’s toddler room.  And as crazy as that number might sound, it gets even crazier when you hear that I didn’t do it alone.  My friend Rachel spent that much time -or more-, and Jennifer spent 20+ hours there as well.

What in the world took you so long?

I’m glad you asked.  This super cuteness is what took so long:

Once again, I’m totally lame and I forgot to take ‘before’ pictures.  But the walls were a very pale, very boring, aqua-gray color that had been the same for possibly a decade.  I think the new room is much more inviting!

After we got the main wall colors on, the long-suffering Jennifer used to the projector to trace out all of the characters.  On Friday (our last day) she traced the letters, then spent her entire day putting six (six!) coats of yellow paint on them.  Bless her incredibly patient heart!

Six coats!

Rachel and I hopped back and forth working on the assorted Veggies:

And finally, around 2 am on Saturday morning, we cleaned up our mess and called it done.

The one thing I forgot to take pictures of is the rocking chairs – I made new slipcovers for them out of Veggie Tales fabric and they look super cute (if I do say so myself).

We’re also going to paint some furring strips and clothespins and make Ana’s Clip Art Rails from Knock-Off Wood. {Love her, y’all!}  Those will go at either end of the room, beside the French Peas on one end

and between Junior Asparagus, Laura Carrot

and Jimmy Gourd on the other side of the room.

Won’t they be perfect for displaying the kids’ artwork?  And we’ll paint them the same shade, so they’ll blend seamlessly into the bright blue skies.

I am really, really happy with the way this project turned out, and I am very thankful for good friends who suckered me into it made it super fun to do.  It was a long week, but a good one!

The next dilemma?  Just through the dutch door

is the nursery where babies stay, and it’s looking pretty sorry next to the newly decorated room.  We’re thinking maybe Noah’s Ark…

uncle, uncle!

So yeah, like 2 weeks later and I still haven’t gotten around to having a design done for this site. I’m throwing in the towel and blogging on ahead without a pretty design. Less is more – that’s my new pretend motto.

The house is kicking my butt. I still don’t have test results and I’m still feeling lousy, but sadly I can’t blame it all on that. I was a housekeeping schlub long before I got sick. Chris would be happy to tell you all about it, believe me.

So anyway, we rearranged the kids rooms. Annie and Catie used to have their own rooms, but they never used them. They like to sleep together, and by together I do not mean in the same room, I mean in the same bed. Twin size bed at that. How many kids have their own room but prefer to share? Well if they want to share, so be it. It just so happens, for those of you that haven’t seen it, that Annie’s room is huge. It’s a bonus room over our garage that she was lucky enough to claim to for her own. Well no longer! Her queen bed was picked up by charity and we made it into a playroom. I painted it the most lovely shade of lime green EVER, and we moved all the toys from the basement playroom up to the bonus room. (Added bonus for mommy – my sewing room in the basement is now HUGE, and I get an actual space for my treadmill instead of stuffed in a corner. Woo-hoo!) Now the playroom is all done except for the curtains (making them tomorrow) and the dry erase board (hanging it tomorrow).

Since I knew I’d have this stuff done this weekend, I thought I’d plan for the redo of their now-shared bedroom. Better get the ducks in a row today so I can get going on it next week, right? We bought Annie a very cute loft bed (not yet assembled) and I stopped today to order a new twin mattress for her. Maybe the rest of the world knew this, but I did not. Mom & Pop stores deliver free. And fast. Like within the hour. Not that I’m not grateful or anything, but sheesh!

So of course I have a toy mess, a clothes mess, a painting mess, and an unassembled bed mess all in the bedroom where the mattress is being delivered. I just had them leave it in the middle of the floor (“The more the merrier!” – that’s my mess’s motto) I don’t want to assemble the bed until I’ve painted the room (they chose lavender, if anyone is interested), so I ran out to buy the paint and then painted the dormer where her bed will be so that at least that will be done and I can assemble the bed tomorrow. Now if I can just keep my poor OCD husband downstairs for a couple of hours tomorrow, all will be well. Thankfully he’s going to a Derby party so that buys me some time too. Of course I begged off on the party, being the socially awkward nerd that I am.

WHY do I do this? Why do I never ever completely finish one project before moving on to the next? I have a room full of sewing projects staring back at me, reminding me of this character flaw. I never realized it until I had my third child, but I think I have ADD. Or else I have too many kids. Either way, I cry uncle!