I sure wish I could figure out how to post a picture on here, but to be honest.. It took me 30 minutes just to get onto my blog site and check my comments. This blog site changed formats or something and now I really struggle to get onto my own blog..  :-/

So. onto the bathroom "while you were out". My sister went to work at 6am. My mom and I and my 3 dc got to her house around 9. We began taking everything out of the bathroom and storing it in her bedroom for the time being.

My mom got her tools out and began removing all the hardware (this is something I didn't think of!) As she did that I began to tape up all the edges with painters tape.

This took about an hour to do. There was no need for a primer coat so we began painting right away.  The only problem was we could not reach the ceiling and there was no ladder. My mom then drove to my house to retrieve her ladder and also to bring us lunch. When she got back, the dc and I had nearly the entire first coat of paint finished.. except near the ceiling, of course. By now, though, we were running really low on paint and we were worried that we would run out. The last thing I wanted to do was go by more paint to use only a few paintbrushes full to finish! We scraped every last bit of paint to cover the rest of the room... thanking  the Lord that there was just enough to do the job.

Once we got it all painted, we ate lunch while the paint dried. Then it was time to "rag on" the top coat of paint. The colors were a light beige base coat and a darker beige "ragged on" coat. It began to look nice right away! The colors looked very good together and had an Africa savannah look to it.

Of course, there was more drying time... so we all got something to drink and waited. Once it was all dry we got to do the fun stuff... eg... put the hardware back up and remove all that painters tape.. ugh.

Then we began to hang the new towels and new artwork, put her shower curtian back up, etc.  The towels were beige and brown.  Also we bought some blue ones as an accent color.

 The artwork was something I had painted earlier using blue, black, grey, and the two beige colors. It was an abstract of squares and rectangles.  Also, another painting was her name in Chinese done by an authenic Chinese calligrapher,, I took that and made a blue trim around it and put it into a dark blue frame. 

My mom had sewn ahead of time a curtian for the window. I have found the material by accident one day and the colors were perfect.. blue with slight lines of beige running through it.

It really looked fanastic!  

Then we had to wait for my sister to get home from work.. only she didn't tell me that when she got off of work, she was going by the tanning bed..... so we waited and waited.. lol!  Finally she called and said she was on her way and was really wondering why we were all at her house. (I had made up a slight story about having to get some tax papers from town and the tax office is right down from her house....   which I DID need to get the papers.. only I wasn't getting them on THAT day.. )

When she came home, I hid in the bathroom behind the shower curtian and then I called her to come to the bathroom.. Now, she was wondering "why does she need me in the bathroom?"  but she came in there and saw what we had done. She was SO surprised. She loved it and kept staring at everything!!

I got several nice pictures of her.

I sure want to post the pictures. I have them downloaded.. now I need to know how to put them on here!

until next time, (If I can figure out how to get back!)

Nancy