A Little Color = A Big Difference

In our living room/playroom, we have a wall that has a beautiful Eiffel Tower picture on it, but the black & white picture looked really boring hanging on our bland wall. One day Vince & I were discussing this, and spontaneously decided to paint the wall a color that would stand out and be so bold that it could only be used on one wall.

We never took a before picture, but I scrounged this one up from the Super Bowl Party we had in January.

We made this a family project and Grafton was even able to help his Dad paint the primer.

Here's the finished project...

I think it looks much better now!

If you were looking at this wall and turned around you would see a train table, play diner, bookshelf with baskets for toys, rocking horse, and a row of toys along the wall. As a result, this is my little space of bliss in an otherwise kid-invaded room.

Minnesota: Part 3

A few weeks before our arrival, my in-laws purchased a play-house for the grandkids. In order to make it a little more homey, the grandkids put on Home-Depot hats and their grandfather's T-Shirts and painted the inside. They took it pretty seriously and actually did a good job!

The following day we went to a cute little town called Nisswa and spent the day shopping. Outside one of the shops was a mechanical horse and it only cost 10 cents a ride.

We were in Paul Bunyan land, so Blue the ox was also there on display.