Hooray, hooray! The painting is complete, for now. We had grand plans to do the entire house, but I'm more than happy to stop at two rooms. More than happy. I can't tell you the joy I had in getting all that painting gear out of our living space, and moving things back into place. The late nights of painting after the kids went to bed were seriously cutting into my sleep time, let alone my sewing and crafting time. Gosh. Priorities, please! I'll share a final picture next week (I do like the colors!), once we've put some new art on the walls and moved everything back in. Ah....
And speaking of painting. I moved my old drawing table into my studio room last week, as I've been itching to play with my guache paint again (not touched much since Calvin was born). On the day I got set up for painting, I stumbled upon Every Day in May by French Toast Girl. And being one that believes in 'signs' of this sort, I knew I'd need to jump in and give it a go. I have such intimidation about painting when I think about it, but when I just do it, I love it, irregardless of the 'results'. I love that EDIM was created with the same intention - simply painting to paint--something every day, with no worries of it being 'good' or not. This is a big personal creative challenge that I'm thrilled about. I had thought about keeping this a secret, but I'm not all that great at keeping secrets (scratch that. I'm great at keeping other people's secrets, just not my own.) So anyway...here are the first five days. I'll either post the rest on Flickr, or share them weekly here, or just hoard them up to myself. we'll see. There is a Flickr group here too.
Happy weekend, everyone!
