Painting Day 2

This isn’t a painting picture, but she’s so cute!  And no, she’s not sitting in a pile of trash, that’s some recycling that isn’t in the bin.  She was fussing until I pulled out the camera.  Then she said “cheese!”  Love that girl.

This morning I decided I really did not like the “Honest Blue” we painted yesterday.  It’s a pretty color, very baby blue-ish, but it’s really not what I want for the space.  It came out much bluer than the color sample card thingie.  so I headed back to Sherwin Williams with my trusty helper Joanna to try and find something greyer and dustier.

I came back with a ton more cards and a sample can of “Upward.”

Here it is next to the other blue:

And by the green valance:

 

And all by itself: 

The pics of the paint aren’t great – oh well.  We definitely like it better than the first blue, enough even to paint a huge section of wall.   Pics at the end of the post.

This evening before she went to bed, I let Joanna get in on the painting action.  She’d been wanting to so badly.  She’s in her panties because she’s three and holding paint.  I’m posting a lot of pictures because she just had so much fun!

Then I made her get her jammies back on to take a picture by her work.  She kept moving.

“Don’t touch the wall!”  She’s checking to make sure she doesn’t have paint on her fingers.

“Point to your stripes.”

Then a preggo pose by the blue.  I thought it would give you a better idea of the color if you could look at skin and clothes and stuff.  It was dark outside by this time so the light’s not great.

 

Here it is with the quilts in the view.  The color doesn’t really look quite like itself in this picture.

 

A wider shot.

I put another coat of primer on the boxes.  You can’t tell from the picture, but they’re still peeking through.  If it was a solid color wall I was covering, I’d leave it at this, but I really don’t want those boxes showing through so I’ll do one more coat tomorrow.

Nobody’s showed up to look at the paint on the wall.  What’s up, people?  I really won’t make you pick up toys or clean the kitchen.  Really.  I’ll even give you a slice of homemade bread.  I just made a couple of loaves using my new Kitchen Aid mixer today!