Blueberries stain even after hours

T's been super sick. Well, sick in that he pukes a couple times a day, but is totally fine otherwise.

We found this out when he projectile vomited three times at the farmer's market.

We thought he was over it, so we took the towels out of his bed and put him to sleep. At 12:30 he woke up screaming and proceeded to puke all over his bed. We brought him into our bed but this morning I realized that the blueberries he had eaten for lunch yesterday stained our white sheets. Our beautiful new white sheets. Who knew they kept their color?

Spatulas are for painting, too!

The big empty wall in the living room has been tough. We have LOT of pattern going on already in the curtains, the TV "hider" and the art already in the house.

We also wanted a HUGE piece. After searching on etsy and ebay I found a couple pieces I liked - but they were expensive. Like way more than I wanted to spend.

I decided to diy some art. After a suggestion on apartmenttherapy.com, I printed a 40% off coupon for Michael's and bought a huge canvas (price with coupon: $60 bucks). I didn't know the supplies I would need - the internets were amazingly unhelpful when I didn't know the right search terms, so I posted on facebook for help and found out I would need modeling or molding paste.



Michaels had some and little tubs were 14 bucks each (ouch).



I bout two tubs and a bunch of white paint assuming I mixed them together, but when I got home I realized that you were supposed to paint over the modeling paste. My two little tubs got me about a 1/4 of the way across the canvas...



so I had to make another trip (to another store - long story) for another brand of modeling paste...but it worked out okay. Not perfect, because the two brands are two different colors. At some point, I'll paint it all white, but for now it works!




(needs to be hung a little higher and straighter, but that is the only place its safe from the munchkin while it dries :)

Room Update Photos

We've slowly but surely started getting rooms a little closer to "not embarrassing."

Scrolly dreamcatcher of a headboard is PAINTED!

These are all the steps I didn't take:
Step One: sand the headboard (yeah, didn't do that)
Step Two: prime the headboard (nope, not that one either)

This is what I DID do.
With an hour between my day finishing up and the baby coming home, I got the tarp from the garage, laid it out on the living room rug and painted and painted (Juniper from Benjamin Moore) in zero VOC paint. The paint ran right off the headboard, beaded up, it was awesome. But I let the first "coat" dry and started again. After three coats, it looked HORRIBLE.


You can see all the splotches and drips here (but it is SO much worse up close).

After letting it dry and trying to keep the baby AWAY from it once he arrived, I propped it up behind the bed.

I love love love it. But the pictures had to go. They were way too modern for my scrolly headboard and swirly curtains.



The plan is to saw off the bottom of the legs and screw it into the bedframe - but I have no idea when that's gonna happen :)

Our Yellow and Turquoise Bedroom is off to a good start...but there is so much more to do.