Really old news about the quilt I made for Randy and Joy for Christmas!

I made a quilt for Randy and Joy for Christmas using fabrics that the candle lighters at their wedding in 2006 had their dresses made from. It was a surprise for them, even though they knew "someday" I was going to make them a quilt. This pattern is called "Wagon Tracks" and I found it on the internet after I saw one block one of my facebook friends had made.
We gave it to Randy and Joy at Thanksgiving at the Scoles gathering in Columbia, MO. It is on their bed now and they are enjoying it.

Jeffrey and Jason's room

Jeffrey and Jason's room before:

Jeffrey had to decide what color he wanted to use out of the paint we had available. Jason suggested stripes using all of them, but his motion was voted down.

He used the blue primer we had for the girls' room, but added some white primer with it. Then he did all the cutting in with the green.

Jason did all the taping and "gophering", plus supplied the room with Radio Theatre. This picture shows the new ceiling fan/light, without the shade on it.
Jeffrey let me do all of the rolling of the primer and the green. It was really fun! (We sent Rowen on a mission to hunt down new tennis shoes for Emily, so the painting field was left open for me.) We don't have a color name for the green, because it was a "mis-tint" Jeffrey got cheap at ACE Hardware. But it was very good paint; it was ACE paint.

Next we had to decide what kind of faux technique to use. The one on the left was repainted over with green and that wall was left green.

I got a phone call while I was fauxing.

You can see in my hand the sea sponge I used for the fauxing. I also have a piece of styrofoam that was helpful for getting in the corners and edges.

The west wall of their room after it was put back together. We still need to decorate this wall.

The south and east walls of the room. I need to make curtains that go with the new paint. (A project for another day.)

The entry to their room. This little wall and the south wall are the only ones that are fauxed. The picture was painted for Jason by Russell Richardson, in about 10 minutes, back in 2005.

It was fun painting the boys' room! We called off painting for awhile, until we have more time to do our bedroom...

The Hallway facelift

Before Picture:

The upstairs hallway has been country white since August of 1989, like most of our house. Since we were in a strange frame of mind, (changing the girls' room so drastically), we decided to do a "color" in the hallway. We thought we picked a color that went with the carpet, but when it was done, Rowen did not like it.

So we debated whether to faux over it, or "get used to it." On email chat with Tim, he encouraged us to try the faux. I got to do it because Rowen got busy doing the electrical work of putting up ceiling fans/lights in the kids' bedrooms. I really enjoyed getting to do the faux, and we love the new look. It is Nevada Tan underneath, and Scone, a lighter tan, on top. I used a sea sponge for this, different from the technique Randy used in the girls' room.



Rowen used the ceiling lights from the kids' bedrooms to replace and add lighting in the hallway. It is so much better now! We changed the pictures on the walls to include some new ones we got from our children for Christmas.