Of Daffodil and Change?

Transcription of phone conversation last week with my Hubby:
Tyler: "Hey honey what ya doin'?"
Me: "Oh, just playing with something I bought for myself today"
"What's that?"
"Well, it cost $40, was completely unnecessary, frivolous, wasn't in our budget, and we can't take it with us when we move."
"Cool . . . what was it?"
"Oh - you'll see when you get home".

(He loves me so I get away with murder)

He got a little shock when he walked into the house and saw this:


I'm easily bored, I get the bug to rearrange all the time and I've had the same beautiful forest green ivy kitchen since we got married. The dishes, the curtains, the ivy over the cabinets - it was all very beautiful, but I was bored. So . . . I went out and bought yellow paint (the color was called Daffodil), yellow towels and yellow fabric for curtains. I also bought that cute little jar with bumblebees on it (because it's the ONLY thing I could find with bees on it).


Now I'm no seamstress, but I thought the curtains turned out lovely and Kabe and Ayvri had a lot of fun digging through my sewing box while I worked on them.

Are you loving my one white wall? Well I do and I'll tell you why, because I painted over all the grease and fingerprints and guck that our landlord SHOULD have painted over before we moved in (yes, I tried to scrub it off, but it just didn't work). And now it looks all clean and beautiful and like I don't have 3 little pairs of hands and a pair of paws mauling it all the time.

Now here's the kicker. This is what the big yellow wall WILL look like when I get the vinyl done. The whole bee theme came from President Hinckley's six "be's" and I think it's gonna be great. See how much I love you . . . I photoshoped this picture so you could see the finished product before it's even finished because I'm such a bloggin' addict :)

Now, just in case you're feeling timid let me tell you I've had white walls my whole life and there's something magical about a little COLOR. And the whole kitchen took less than a 1/2 gallon of paint and it was the cheap $10 a gallon kind . . . and I did it all during naptime and the kids didn't get painted :) So . . . be brave and paint something, a color, you won't regret it! Oh, and someday I'll paint the chair backs and table legs black and then they'll be more presentable too!