slowly coming along

A while back I decided that I wanted to jazz up Lucy's room.

We really hadn't done anything for her room, other than put up memo board thingy.

I really wanted to do stripes.

Random stripes.

I thought of it during a momentary lapse in sanity.

Stripes=work.

Then, throughout the whole process, I had more lapses in my sanity.

Here is another one:

Yes, I let Lucy join me in the painting process.

And here is my third:

Uh-huh.

I let all the kids, and a friend who was over, join in the fun.

My thought was "more hands make less work".

Careful which hands you choose....

But alas, they did have a good time.

And in the end, I probably put as much time into fixing all of their errors as I would have had I painted all by my lonesome.

And the kids came away with a sense of accomplishment and enjoyed their creativity.

So it really was a win-win.

At least that is what I will keep telling myself.

It did turn out very cute in the end:

And Lu is really happy with it.

Oh, and remember the "artwork" of Lucy's?

So far I have put 8 coats of paint on it.

Yes, paint here is a wonder.