Candied Fabrics » Kids http://www.candiedfabrics.com Art & Design for people who love color Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:41:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 It’s the most wonderful time…of the year! http://www.candiedfabrics.com/2010/08/11/its-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year/ http://www.candiedfabrics.com/2010/08/11/its-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:09:19 +0000 Candy http://www.candiedfabrics.com/?p=4336 It’s the most wonderful time…of the year! is a post from: Candied Fabrics

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Yes, that’s right, the boys went back to school today! Redlands is on a “modified traditional” schedule – they have 2 months off in the summer, rather than 3. I’ve got  a little under 3 weeks til I’m on my way to Cleveland to tape 2 segments of Quilting Arts TV, and boy do I have a lot of stuff to do. I do hope I can find some serious head time to get a lot of things accomplished!

But in the meantime, here are my boys, off to their first day of school!

om [one moment] meet up

alamodestuff Linda has started a weekly meetup based on taking a moment each week to really notice something as you go about your daily grind life. I need to do this. You may want to too – read more about it here:

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]]> After the declutter to end all declutters in the boys playroom and bedroom last week, we then ripped up the nasty carpet and padding on Friday. Although the walls of the boys bedroom were painted when we first moved in (see that story along with the Southwestern style quilts I made for their beds here) and still looked pretty darn good, the white walls of the playroom were in need of a lot of touch up. As the leftover paint for that room doesn’t exist, we were going to have to pick a different color.

A quick negotiation with the boys (who get all ramped up and come up with crazy, overwhelmingly complicated schemes for decorating whenever we talk about the playroom) led us to focus on the bird mobile I made for them that will stay in the improved playroom…and thus “we” decided on a blue for the sky so the birds would look like they’re flying.  15 minutes in front of the paint chips at Lowe’s with a piece of bamboo in our hands and we were ordering a gallon of paint. It came home and went on the walls immediately! After some fun:

it was painted. (Welcome to my life…when hubby finally agrees to do something, you have to have all your ducks in a row, decisions ready to go.)

I did a second coat early Saturday morning and I was renting a nailer at 9:40 AM. It was ready to be returned by 7 that night (although I didn’t have the energy to do it then!)

We’ve still got a big punch list that includes installing the baseboards and building new bookcases, but the biggest hurdle has been crossed! The boys were a big help, but at some point we were really flagging – just as our friend Brad dropped by to lend a hand. He helped Andrew out finishing the 1st room while I made some fabulous BALT sandwiches for lunch. After a rest, Andrew & I found the energy to just get the smaller room done! Woot!

The boys are way excited about their new, improved spaces, which seem so big right now. I can’t wait to put them together and hopefully keep the clutter down to a dull roar!

Oh – and the winner to last weeks giveaway was #16 – Sandra, whose favorite color is purple! I’ve sent you an email Sandra, congrats!

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]]> I’m a busy bee here on my computer, working on a really big website. But I don’t want to forget about that vacation that seems so far away now! Our last day at the cabin Logan and I spent reading on the deck while Liam and hubby were out fishing. Look who came by for a visit and stayed a long time – long enough for me to take a lot of pictures (like 100 – here are the best):

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]]> Logan and I went to see the ghost town in Bodies while Liam and Dad went fishing.

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]]> I hope you all are enjoying these, I’m loving that I can process pix as I go and not end up with this huge amount of pictures that seems unsurmountable after returning from vacation!

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