A Room of One's Own

Last week was March Break for Steve, and I took a few days off work so we could play together. We spent a lovely long weekend in Ottawa with Auntie Kristi and Uncle Ryan, and Auntie Kristi helped pick out the light fixture for the JuneBug's room. (And carried it safely through IKEA for me, even though it wasn't that heavy. That's just the kind of sister she is.) It's perfect:



Our other project for the week was to start decorating the JuneBug's room. Our theme is Dr. Seuss (NOT the Cat in the Hat. I do not like the Cat in the Hat, even before the mind-numbingly awful Mike Meyers movie came out.) Steve borrowed an overhead projector from school, and we made transparencies of our favourite characters and projected them on the wall to use as paint templates, and got to work. We painted the background a really nice green (somewhere between Granny Smith Apple green, and celery green):



We have a pretty good system - Steve does the (multiple!) coats of colour for the critters, and then I do the detailed outlining.

The bad news is, it's taking much longer than we thought. The good news is, it's turning out way, WAY better than we ever thought. We're quite proud of ourselves. We're a little ambitious - once finished, the room will include such loveables as the Sneetches, the Lorax, and the turtles from Yertle the Turtle. So far, we've just finished one character completely: the Yop. He goes "hop, hop, hop, from fingertop to fingertop". I think he's in One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. The balloons from Oh, The Places You'll Go are just having the details finished up, and the little bears (are they bears? Maybe they're something else?) from Hop on Pop are awaiting another coat of yellow. Work in progess:





More pictures to follow as the room comes together. We have our crib all ready to put together once all the painting is done, and we have a change table/dresser and a rocking chair - pretty much everything we need. And three whole months to finish everything off in. Of course, this room puts the rest of our house to shame - it's all still the builder beige that we chose for our one colour (see previous post of me standing in front of a door for a sample of builder beige on the walls). All in good time. Cheers!