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So glad he's home.

I really don't know how to teach these kids how to play.

But he does. 

New Mural

So Maya's room turned out SUPER cute. Thanks Janalyn for letting me paint it. Here's the before of the the purple walls. Sorry, I guess it's not completely before I had already started to paint (thus, the beautiful painting clothes) but you get the idea.


And here's the after. Janalyn had a canvas painting of a flower that she liked so we used that for our inspiration and went from there. You can see the canvas painting hanging on the wall in the picture on the left. And Maya is the lucky girl in the middle. Maya, I hope you LOVE your room. Thanks for letting me paint it.

To see a few of my other murals you can click here and here.

New Mural

This is the mural I just finished in Alexandria's room. We finally decided to do a castle and a mermaid. The castle is huge. It couldn't even all fit in the picture. I was putting the finishing touches on last night and Alexandria was so excited . . . it was like Christmas all over. She kept coming in and wanting to play. That's why I love doing it. The kids love it. You can't tell from the picture but the roof tops sparkle and the little stars glow in the dark.

I love doing interactive things with my murals like on this one I added boxes to give her little balconies for her to play with her Barbie dolls. Some of her bigger dolls fit too.

Then there was the whole mermaid issue. Alexandria had to have a mermaid by the castle. Actually, if it were completely up to her she probably would have preferred all mermaids. I'm not too sure of my mermaid ability though so I agreed to do one mermaid next to the castle but behind the door just in case it didn't turn out great. So that's what we did. Here's the mermaid a little closer. She turned out okay but I'm still thinking it was smart to put her behind the door.

Now I've run out of kid spaces to paint in our house so I guess it's time to do our room. What theme would we like? hmmm . . .You can see some of my other mural work from our home here.

My Murals

So here's what I like to do in my spare time. Good thing I don't have very much of it or our whole house might be painted in kids themes. This is a picture of the kid's bathroom that I just finished. You can kind of see in the picture, because of the mirror, how it goes all around the bathroom. It was so much fun to do. It only took a day and Dionys watched the kids for most of the day. We put hooks on the octopus arms and he holds all the towels. You can see him actually holding the towels in the mirror.

This is the boys room. Baseball everything! I even found a chest of drawers at Goodwill and painted it the same as the walls.

These pictures are of Isabel's room. Her room took about four hours. You can't tell from the picture but it goes all the way around the room with big flowers and butterflies. I just have fun seeing what happens when I start to make the finishing touches like th expressions on the faces of the fish in the bathroom. It's like they come to life. Plus it makes it even more worth it when the kids walk in and begin to play with the characters on the wall.

We just got Alexandria a new loft bed. It's a big hit with the kids. They love it. They spend most of the day on her bed playing. Now her room just needs some help. We're trying to figure out what kind of stuff we should paint on her walls. She's got all sorts of ideas. Castles, princesses, rainbows, unicorns, the list goes on and on. But I'm not that good. I'm waiting to come up with something simple.