Last Saturday after the temple open house and while Mark and Kyle got to spend some one-on-two-time with their cuz, Jay and I met Keli at Mom’s house for a happy purpose. A creative purpose.
New paint, window, flooring – a new, fresh look was in order for Mom. Here are a few pictures of the painting part of the project.
In the beginning . . .
The carpet will go – the dark wood trim and doors will go - tired ceiling and walls will get freshened with the softest, whispered yellow (thanks Jana, we used your Corinthian White Benjamin Moore colour again!) – the night tables and bed boards will become a feminine and cheerful robin-egg blue. Oh, my.
But first, the prep-work.
Guess what this is? If you can’t, read on.
It’s Keli’s brilliant idea on how to hold the tiny screws still and upright to receive their fresh spray of paint. Stick them in a wrinkly (but not rotting) potatoe.
(Notice I have switched to my Canadian-influenced background, eh? I mean potatoe, tomatoe, colour. . . My American English dictionary is desperately trying to correct me. Correct on! It feels good to be Canadian too. I have my Maple Leaf flag and T-shirt handy. This evening I want to go take family pictures among the maple leaves. And this year, I want to honor Thanksgiving in October too! Amazing what a trip back to Vanderhoof will do to this red-blooded United States gal. I guess there will always be a part of me that loves everything Big and Beautiful and British Columbian too.)
A – hem. As I was saying . . .
Here is the Queen Mum elevating feet and mind in the other room. Obviously she had to be temporarily ousted from her room to across the hall. This was her way of escaping our noisy business of loud voices, fans and a blaring Pandora Radio.
I wonder if she remembers another painting project many years ago. That time it was just her and me. We were painting a little bathroom, and the fumes got to us before we realized we were being overcome. The one and only time I saw Mom laying on the living room carpet laughing uncontrollably and as silly and limp as a new kitten. Ah, where was my camera then?
Hands down, my favorite part is the painting of the furniture. By the time we got to this point it was dark and hard to capture how pretty they are turning out.
We do not want to hog all the fun and there is still fun to be had. Indeed, labor and laughter still needed:
- Installation of the laminate floor tomorrow for FHE, Monday Sept. 24. Some of us could also be picking grapes.
- $$ for the million things, big and little, that crop up on a project like this
- window (she’s having a new one installed) and closet dressing.
- I’ll have to edit this list after I talk to Project Manager Keli since I can’t remember . . . Better yet, call her too.
We haven’t had FHE there for a long time, but we’ll always remember them and the testimonies of Jesus Christ, his gospel, and Family that were shared. I miss seeing everyone and having our children see their Grandma K. So glad we had that precious time.
