I’m online, I’m online! And it’s in my home.. I’m sitting here grubby and sleep crusty cursing softly while I figure out the memory card reader.. BAM it’s working! Last night while I was crouched furtively over a library computer DH ran a new line to the computer, the rest of the house is still messed up but I’m BACK!

Pictures as promised:

In my girls bedroom I painted a My Little Pony mural on one wall

both ponies have metallic irises and metallic streaks in their hair. They are standing in a bed of flowers while butterfly dance overhead. The butterfly are actually 3-d glitter sticker things that just went so well I couldn’t resist. The walls are a soft blue color, these pictures aren’t exactly true to color since we had the curtains drawn.

Tessa sleeps in the bed directly below the mural, this has caused some friction so I may need to put a pony or two in the wall Mira is sleeping against.

here you can see both girls. The curtains are actually shower curtains that have butterflies all over them. I went with the vinyl shower curtains for the washability factor and the evenness of the light filtration. At the sunniest time of the day the room is still a calming blue hue. The beds were a bear of a project. We bought them as bare wood. Much priming and sanding ensued. 2 nights were spent purplifying them and 1 more night to clear coat. We put up new closet doors and a new fan that so happens to match perfectly. It has different color oval pastel blades and the holder that attach the blades to the main part of the fan are shaped like flowers and also softly colored. Butterflies hang from the pullchains - just a serendipitous find.

Here are pictures of both girls crashed out in their new beds. This was after Mira’s birthday party on Sunday - hence the crown on Mira’s head!

And just because I feel like it - here’s a picture of me and my mom. Sheesh do we look related or what?