A leave of absence #2

Now the other reasons for not blogging. While he was camping with his family, if Kimber had decided not to go to California, I was going to stay home as well and paint the two other bedrooms and when Dave came home it would already be done and there'd be nothing he could do about it. Unless he would paint over what I'd done and that would never happen. I've wanted to paint pretty much since we moved in and it's just been a huge argument with us. And I didn't understand because I was not asking him to paint, I would do it all, but he wouldn't have anything to do with it. In his defense I think he was thinking I wanted to paint the whole house, but that was never my intention, because I like the colors downstairs, just the bedrooms needed some color on the walls. We were also supposed to be headed back down to California to help can tomatoes and to see some friends that we haven't seen for 1 1/2 years for Labor Day weekend but when he decided to go coyote and dove hunting instead, I told him of my plans and he didn't really disagree or say too much. He just said, "Don't touch the downstairs." Done.

He caught me so off guard with agreeing to let me paint that it was numerous trips to the paint store for different chip colors and trying to get just the right color scheme in each room. Way too much pressure to get it right the first time and hoping that he liked it enough to let me do it again sometime.

The Before:

The After:

Don't be deceived, the polka-dots were so much work, and that is the only help I asked from Dave was to make it all work together on all the walls. I love the outcome and so does he. Instead of just drab white walls, now everything is crisp green and white and we love it. It took a week for both rooms, and the other room is not quite done yet, just waiting till my dad comes up this weekend to help with the finishing touches!! Stay tuned for that as well.

Katelyn kissed one of the dots when it was still wet and it was all I could do to get her not to cry for the picture before washing it off. The girls were so excited to get their toys back from under the plastic for a week and now everyone is happy.

After I did one polka-dot, Kelsey looked at me and said, "You love it, don't you?"

And Katelyn just kept kissing the wall (once it was dry) and said it looked pretty. They even got to help with painting the closet. They weren't too keen on how long the dots took though.