Forever Family

I’m taking a break from my mission today.  I mean, even Gandhi needed a rest, right?  Not that I’m Gandhi.  But you get the idea.

It’s Saturday, after all.  

First, I wanted to take a moment to thank all of you who are taking the time to read and comment on my blog.  You have no idea how much that means to me.  I still stick by my goal.  If I can even get one person to think a little more about the plight of kids in our foster care system, I will sleep better at night.  

So being that it’s the weekend and all, I’ve been busy trying to do all the things I want/need to get done, and just can’t accomplish during the week.  This includes the standards, like cooking and cleaning and more loads of laundry than I care to think about, but I’m also working to get settled into our new house.

Well, when I say new house, its not all that new.  We moved into it over 6 months ago.  Yes, I still have boxes laying around.  TIME!!!!  I NEED MORE TIME!!!!!

I’ve been painting and decorating one room at a time.  I started in our living room, went on to the dining room, did some work in the kitchen, then our foyer, and now I’ve moved on to Kiddo’s room.

Kiddo digs outer space.  I think that’s a great theme for a bedroom, because it’s conducive to night time activities like sleeping, and gives me an excuse to do some cool things with glow-in-the-dark.  I also think outer space is a little more long term.  I don’t want to have to redo his room every couple of years because he’s grown out of it.  

I feel pretty good about my interior decorating skills.  I’m not thinking a career change or anything, but I enjoy the creative outlet it provides me.  Most of my decorating education came from watching HGTV, so its certainly not as good as a pro, but I’m feeling pretty good about my domestic goddess status today.

This is the end result.  It took 2 nights of very late night painting, an afternoon of decal application, and little time arranging and hanging pictures, but Kiddo loves it.  For a special touch, I added some glow-in-the-dark paint to the wallpaper decals to light them when darkness falls.

The bed and rugs are courtesy of Ikea.

This is a view towards the other corner.  The hanging organizer and moon light are also from Ikea.  Love that store.

And this is looking back towards the window.  With such dark walls, I opted for just a plain and simple white sheer. 

But I wanted to give it a special touch.  I used some glow-in-the-dark fabric paint to stamp some star, planets, moons, and comets.  Of course it looks awesome in the dark, but in the light it has a cool burnout pattern to it.

I’m just glad to check a couple of other things off my mile long list.  Hopefully tomorrow I’ll get to spend a little time organizing my craft room.  Not that I’ve had much time to do my scrapbooking lately, but I’ll feel really good to at least have my space looking nice.

Maybe…just maybe…Kiddo will actually want to go to bed in here, instead of fighting us every night.  I am gonna wish upon a star that it might be so.

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