Tuesday, September 8, 2009

my new paint ~'::

I found this wonderful paint color on Saturday when we were at our local hardware store. It was a lovely gray, with a blue/green color-of-the-sea edge to it. "Ancient gray" they called it. It was just the color I wanted to paint my bedroom. I showed the color to Caleb and said please, and he decided that we could paint our bedroom this weekend since we had Monday at our disposal.



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We picked up the paint that afternoon when we went to the next town to get groceries, and Monday morning, as soon as Greta had us mostly awake, we took things off of the walls and moved furniture out from the walls. Leah and Ethan came over to help and in no time at all my bedroom was transformed. By dinnertime we were done painting, and by suppertime could put everything back.

It is so lovely. The room feels much bigger and airier and cleaner. And I just love the color. (I don't mind the carpet anymore either. :))
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Caleb is wondering why it is taking me so long to post this.
He had told me I could have the computer to post my pictures.
I told him, "Well, it takes a long time for me to do this. I wanted to write a little bit."
(Envision: a tired Greta crawling all over me, ready for bed.)
He wants to know why that takes long. He says to just say, "This is gray paint."
Indeed.
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Marriage milestone marker:
When Caleb was setting up to paint he asked me if we had an old sheet to put over furniture, and we had one! We're officially an old married couple now. ;)

5 comments:

Melissa said...

Delightful post.:) I'm so glad you took the time to add word-color!:) And I just love the wall color. It's perfectly you, and so restful...just the sort of shade I imagined. Can't wait to see it in person.

Love you!

Lucy said...

What a restful colour! And Greta looks such a big girl in that shot!

Dandelionmom said...

Very nice! and your carpet looks great with it AND your furniture! LOL (I'm not one to talk tho-still have a room with that color myself AND one in scarlet)

I am amazed you let him use an OLD sheet-those are the best ones! (grin)-congrats on your milestone!

Danielle said...

It's been a little while since I stopped by your blog- and I had a more than a little catching up to do! But I enjoy it so! The pictures and text are so encouraging, inspiring and calming to me.

The post about Caleb's suggestion for this post made me chuckle aloud, and as I turned to go- my husband asked what was so funny. I told him "the difference between men and women" and I described the paint and the pictures and then read that little paragraph to him. He smiled in complete agreement with your guy and said "that's my type of man". sigh. :)

Nikki said...

I laughed heartily at Caleb's comment. But you know, it really is more than just gray paint. :) Very lovely!
Oh, and your garden pictures looke de-lish!
And Greta is a ham/adorable, as always!