The first secret project is a secret, I'm not telling even you what it is, mainly because it quite possibly could involve someone who reads or has read this blog before.
The second secret project isn't really a secret, unless your name is Grace, and I don't know if it's a secret project for her either, but I'm pretending that it is either way as it's still a project in the works.
The third secret project is a very secret project I shall refer to as the "while you were snowbirding in St. George" episode of "While you were out" or perhaps even "My parents house"... minus the camera's, silly hosts, and professional decorators. It's just me and my sisters and of course, our parents house.
Why? Because growing up mom was the queen of keeping busy. She was always cleaning and cooking and doing laundry and canning beans and pulling weeds and raising 10 kids and putting up with dad and even more cleaning. Now that she's a ripe old age of 79, she just doesn't have it in her to do those things anymore, well, except for putting up with dad, but she hasn't a choice there and I'm pretty sure it's more work than all of the above.
She's now the queen of crocheting and embroidering and quilting and sewing and working on humanitarian projects and just taking it easy as her health won't let her do much of anything else. So we got together and decided it was time to do something nice for her, something she's talked of doing forever and just can't do herself.
It's nothing to exciting, really. Simply, a new warm coat of paint on the stark white walls, and eventually some new drapes, that is if we (*cough - my sisters - *cough*) can ever decide on just what to do and find the right material.
Our choices so far are these:
For this room (can you tell the paint color is not stark white anymore?):
So... panels or just a valance? Go with the stripes on the left or the right or find a coordinating solid color? Stripes as chair covers or coordinating solid as chair covers? And when I say chair cover, I mean replace dad's dirty bum protector:
(We didn't have the heart to go through dad's desk, as bad as it needs it. Mom would have appreciated it... a lot... it's an eyesore and a sore spot all in one. Everything was put back into the room just as we found it, except for an old clock we retired to the laundry room and that ancient paint by number above dad's chair that we're just retiring, period. I just hope I got the TV hooked up correctly - can you say "too many wires that can't possibly go to anything" - or I will be getting a phone call in the middle of the night that starts with something like "what the hail did you do to my TV?")
We're (well, I am and I'm sure the sisters are, too) anxious to finish up the project. It's a busy month! My parents will be home in just a few weeks and I have birthdays to celebrate, cakes to bake, and friends and neighbors having babies, some who require dinner, and other secret projects to finish and post offices to argue with and libraries to visit and books to read and scriptures to study and house to finish cleaning and a husband to convince that if you really want the little girls to know that life isn't fair, just go ahead and buy a cell phone for the Boy for his birthday, along with new name brand golf clubs and a golf pass. Go ahead, I dare you.
And that's just this week!
So with that being said, Ishee wants to know why there are so many birthday's in March. Happy happy birthday this month to the following family members: Grandpa, my father in law, Abbi, Patrick, the Boy, Nancy, Jesse, Verl, Devin, Bob, Madison, Tanner, and Parker.
Friends Rossi, Katy, Julie, Donna, Karen... Happy Birthday to you all, too.
And finally.... congratulations on your decision to be baptized, sweet Grace, and to my good friends Heidi and Cathy, may your babies be born healthy and strong and sooner rather than later.
I think I'm going back to bed now.
4 comments:
You didn't include pictures of the culprits involved with secret #3.
I think I would go with panels over a valance. I like the stripes on the right better (I like the golds and rusty reds and greens and more earthy colors).
If you do a stripe for the curtains, I would layer it with a solid sheer underneath to give a base/foundation and I would do the chair cover in a coordinating fabric. Either a coordinating print or a solid.
There's such variety in decorator fabrics these days. Could you make a couple of throw pillows to match the curtains and also get a throw to match?
WOw! You're working on so many secret projects these days! I bet I know what the first secret project is!!
Your Mom is going to love this labor of love that you and your sister(s) are doing for her!!
:)
ah - you made me tear up a little. thinking of me & my baby...you're a good friend! I love you!
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