Well, we're almost completely done with Dustin's room now. The blue paint is on the walls and you can kind of tell we aren't experts at it, lol. You can see some small areas where the paint ran. And the strips we took down and then applied tape and mud to....well, Randy forgot that we were supposed to primer those, so you can kind of see them. Maybe someday we'll go through and primer the whole room and repaint, but it'll have to wait. Other than that, it doesn't look half bad. I have to go through on two spots and run a second coat of paint next to the ceiling where Randy missed, then I can start doing the stenciled border. I'm not too sure about the stencil style though, so I may wait and see what else I can find instead. I have attached a partial scan of the stencil to this message that I have now. But we're just not sure about it. Let us know what you think! I have also added some pictures to the Dustin's room album, so you can see how it looks now. We plan to buy some trim and baseboards for the room too, paint them the same Chimney-sweep Black color we're doing the stenciling in, and then putting them up. The trim around the windows will be that same black too, AFTER we primer it of course, lol. And then the ceiling will be a real light grey. We also got some bulk whiteboard (dry erase board) to put up over his desk for doodling, notes, or homework stuff. And we also plan to put shelves up here and there for his future dragon statues and keepsake stuff. I'm hoping that by the time it's ALL done, it'll look clean, neat and more grown up. He says he wants a more grown up room, so that's what we're going for.

 

Now, as for Randy.....last week he had a tire blow up on him. It hit his right eye, right cheekbone and threw him back into a workbench. He was in some major pain, but he's doing better now. We thought he'd have a small back eye, but it really didn't get dark at all. He also has been working his butt off on his shed. It used to be one of those add-ons for an older trailer, to be used as a porch thing. He has added a full wall to it, put in some shelves, and built a workbench for smaller projects. He plans to get a bit more wood and put up the door. That way its all secure too. We do plan to build a larger shop later on, but this works for now. I'll go out there in a bit to take some pictures of it and post them in Randy's album.

 

   We have so many projects going right now, it's hard to decide what to work on, lol. I have my office to work on, getting it more organized and all. Then there's Dustin's room, the front bathroom, the shed, Randy's truck, the back porch, and now we have to start planting grass too. We plan to use grass plugs though, instead of seed. It's called AMAZOY ZOYSIA. It looks awesome, and a guy down the road has it too. It just takes a lot more work than seeding.

  

  OK, I think that's it for today. We don't know who all reads these or looks at the photos, but please leave comments or email us and let us know! I'd hate to think I'm typing all this out for nothing, lol.

 

Take care!

 

 

 

 

 

          Well, we have taken on our first project. Dustin's room. As you can see from the photos, it was a girls room. Brittanie's to be exact. So Dustin has chosen his own colors and theme. He really wants a medieval themed room, mostly dragon stuff.