WIP Wednesday - Guest Room

Work on the fluffy, pink guest bedroom is nearing an end -

I have apparently decorated this with my mother in mind...

...and it has become *so* pink that my daughter refuses to sleep in it when she's visiting..

I don't know, I kinda like the sparkles...

There has to be a place for pink, I think....

Succulent Saturday - house, catching up

After working on the house for over *two months*, I am finally getting close to being finished...

There has been new carpet, old-carpet cleaning, lots and lots of painting -

-and lots of sorting and purging...

I think I've gone over nearly every inch of this house now (although I still need to broach the insanity that is the closet-under-the-stairs..)

And, I've even gotten to the decorating stage in places! (happily, since we had scheduled a dinner party weeks ago for tonight. Up until yesterday, I was despairing that I'd never get the living space presentable for people. *whew*!)

WIP Wednesday - stuff

The only paintbrush I've been able to wield of late is a large, rough, household one -

With both kids gone, along with their bedroom furniture, I decided it's time to repaint and re-carpet down in the basement -

- which took a bit of doing considering that both of their rooms were a fairly intense shade of blue (my daughter's room was literally the same shade of blue as the painter's tape). Lots of prepping and priming...

- but they are both now painted a nice warm, creamy white (along with all the trim, doors and ceilings). I'll have to wait until daylight to see if this is sufficient or if any of that deep blue is still showing through.

They will soon have new designations and much re-arranging is still to come...

In the studio, I've been doing a bit of modern-master copies as prep for the current book dummy I'm working on. Here's page of Jean-Baptiste Monge,

-and a pen study of William Stout. (it's disconcertingly SO much easier to copy somebody than originate one's own.. Fun though. :-)