So I'm becoming a bit of a blog-reading junkie. I love reading about real people. Mainly I like the blogs about doing cool home projects, like Young House Love. When Sherry, one half of the couple who write Young House Love, wrote back to me after a blog comment and email I sent them, I felt like I'd gotten a response from someone famous. I hope Santa brings me their book for Christmas. I like doing things myself, and frugally when I can. That also means that I get way too many good ideas from reading blogs about frugal decorating, painting, and making a house a home.
Today I'm painting the brass chandelier that was in our dining room. My brother took it out of a house he was remodeling about 8 years ago. We replaced a *cough* lovely *cough* wagon wheel chandelier with it. I've never been a fan of brass, and it doesn't fit well with our decor. I've been shopping for a new chandelier, but thought before I bought a new one, I'd try to paint this one. It's all Sherry and John's fault at Young House Love. They painted their brass chandelier and it looked so nice I figured it couldn't hurt to try. I hung the chandelier in our creepy basement to paint because it's too cold outside. Armed with white Krylon spray paint from Marden's, I went to work.
Unfortunately, Zoey's customary 2 hour nap lasted about 45 minutes. That has made this easy project challenging because Daddy is Christmas shopping. That means I spray a coat, run upstairs to the second floor to comfort Zoey, run downstairs to spray a coat, run back upstairs, etc. It's good exercise, I suppose. She doesn't want to nap today. I gave up and now we're on the couch having a snack. Well, she's snacking. I'm writing. I'll put her in her playpen in Daddy's office (on the first floor) when I need to go add more paint to my chandelier. There are a couple of imperfect spots, but it looks better than before, kind of shabby chic or like it belongs in a cottage.
My next big project is certainly big. I'm going to paint the living room/dining room. I've never liked the fake wood paneling much, so after ten and a half years, I'm going to paint it. It will look like a cottage with the grooves in the walls. I think it will look nice. I'm going to tackle that during February break. We have to pay for daycare anyway, so Zoey will go to daycare for a couple days while I paint. She's not so helpful during painting!
