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Our painting adventure is finished!!!! We started yesterday afternoon around 1:00 and finished today right about 6:00 pm……..PHEW! I am having a party this weekend and I want to keep the room a surprise so I will just go into a little detail without showing pictures for now. I’ll post some pictures of the room and the food from our party next weekend.

When we moved into our home 4 years ago we painted our living room a rich cranberry red. It was beautiful, the paint was gorgeous and almost had a suede feel to it. But after 4 years it started to feel too dark to us. Our furniture is a light natural camel, the furniture black or espresso and the lighting is brushed silver with cream shades and cream curtains. All of the light colored fabrics did help lighten the room but we knew we wanted to paint.

We started out thinking we would paint a light camel color…………but we didnt! I’ll just tell you the name of the paint for now, “winter sky”. Pretty vague, but oh so pretty! We also built a new mantel! Hooray!!!!! I now have the most beautiful shelf for my new partylite votives and my nativity set. WE LOVE IT!!! And we added a large mirror above the mantel to reflect even more light.

All in all, were tired but in awe of how different our living room looks. It is stunning and the fireplace looks insanely beautiful. Hard work, but so well worth it.

The girls stayed the night at Grandma’s and had homemade gingersnap cookies, and newly polished nails! How fun. We could not have done this without my Mom and I owe her so much for helping out. Ava and Audrey had a lot of fun with her and were super excited to see the new living room.

This week continues the busy life, two cleaning appointments for our floors and house on Wed and Fri, a possible Dr. appt for Ava tomorrow, accupuncture Tues on top of my Mon, Tue, Thur, Sat personal trainer sessions at ProClub. Then Saturday evening our ‘Scary Movie Night’! I really have to hunker down and get my menu worked out and start preparing.

Tonight is the new MFT release and Im looking forward to it, so far I really like the chocolate and sisters set, in the jungle and the new boho blossoms! Only 16 minutes to release!!!!

Tomorrow I hope to knock out another card or two and get back to my SCS challenges and cards for bingo! Im only 4 numbers away from having a full card.

As usual, Im watching my TiVo’d ‘Golden Girls’ and after the MFT release hopefully Sean and I will watch a movie and then hit they hay! I hope everyone had a great weekend and I’ll be back with some more cards leading up to my candy this week!

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