1. remodeling Zack's extra walk-in into a study room
2. Summer's surprise baby shower
1. If you missed a previous post, I'll break it down for you. Zack's room is actually the old porch of the house. Other than the doors you can't even tell, though. It looks more like a studio apartment with a brick accent wall. ANYWAY, Zack has a very small room separating the old storage room (his closet) from his bedroom. I should also tell you that the house use to be occupied by some art students -- which is quite tragic considering it was the WORST paint job EVER. The blue walls were literally the same color as the painters tape we taped down, complete with streaks and a plethora of missed spots (with white walls peaking through). All that occupied the room was a random floor cabinet, Lance's (Zack's Irish Setter) food, and dirty clothes. Zack is a handyman and I love creating themes so one night it hit me: Zack hates going to the UCA library because friends always find him and distract him, and he hates studying in his room because he's so easily distracted there, as well (he lives with 3 UCA football players -- two of them are fraternity brothers that are constantly in his room playing XBOX). Why don't we make the unused room a study room? It's the perfect size, far away from activity, and....well, what else is he using it for? His landlords gave them $500 off their rent if they painted -- so free paint and supplies?!?!? It was a sign. We picked out a beautiful "Camelback" paint for the walls, and an "antique white" for the trim -- both products of Sherwin Williams. We wanted to use paint from the Harmony collection (so it would be Eco-friendly) but the landlord said no because of costs. :( So tonight we got down to business laying the painters tape, protecting the floors, cleaning the walls/brick with a hot-wet rag, and went to town on the painting. I carefully used an angled paintbrush to get all the edges, while Zack got his roll on! The hardest part was painting the brick. I painted the crevasses with my brush, and Zack rolled over it to make sure it was thoroughly coated. If you are interested in learning more about this you can visit my FAVORITE blog, Young House Love, here. Be sure to check out their entire site, it's amazing! We plan to add 2 more coats of paint over the next 2 days...and that's not even the beginning (picture me giving you a mischievous grin) we plan to do some building and decorating as well...but I plan to keep that secret until the big revealment --COMING SOON TO A COMPUTER NEAR YOU!! :)
2. My Conway BFF is having her baby girl, Greenlee (did I get the spelling right?), December 15th. I can not WAIT to be an "aunt." Some of her other Conway friends had a dinner date at U.S. Pizza tonight to discuss her baby shower! I can proudly announce that I am extremely pleased with the results!!!! I came up with the theme and NOTHING about this shower will be "standard": not the theme, the food, the gifts, the games...NOTHING! Now that I have built it up...I can not tell you about it...sorry!! Summer follows my blog and I don't want any chance of her finding out. You'll definitely want to hear about it, though! Be looking for the results on my blog right before Thanksgiving! Speaking of holidays...I found some great tips in staying green during the holiday season...be looking for ways you can help save, as well!!
Last...I'll leave you with a song to go along with the theme of this blog. As you all know, I am an intense Michael Jackson fan. That fact aside, I want you to take this song very seriously. It is not a very "well-known" Michael Jackson song, but in my opinion is it the greatest song he ever wrote (also the opinion of his brother Jermaine). It is such a passionate song that draws tears to my eyes EVERY time I listen to it. Be sure to listen to it all the way through and watch the video, enjoy!
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