Home Improvement Season

The time of year between hunting season and boating season is our home improvement season. Our current project is Addison's new room. We moved her into the office and the office into her old room.

This is a before picture of the office. It is one of those multi-purpose rooms that also becomes a dumping ground for whatever doesn't fit in the rest of the house. We, I, am working on reigning that in a bit.

Addy's room is a lot bigger now with more room for her library and wild stuffed animal park.

Addy's room is the one room in the house I get a little crazy with. The color of the walls are currently tan so I decided to make her room look like a room inside a castle, Castle Hein.

I am painting a window, which Addy calls her tall bridge instead of a draw bridge,

"silk" banners and....a Dragon!

This is Cinder the Bubble Blowing Dragon. I am having a blast painting him. He will be blue with a pink tummy and purple spots, per Addy's specifications. Cinder is from one of our favorite books. I left him in pencil for a week to make sure Addy wasn't going to be afraid of him once he was up. So far she loves him, and who wouldn't?!

Cinder is about 5 feet tall

Addy came home from Grandpa's house the other day and critiqued my work thus far....

Addy (said with perfect 3 year old attitude) : "Why did you paint the bushes white?"

Daddy: "Those are clouds!"

Addy : "Why isn't my dragon pink?"

Mommy: "You said you wanted blue!!"

Addy: "Hmmm, okay, we'll see."