Brinley turned 7 on October 22nd and we spent the whole day Celebrating her. Brinley is my determined little girl who likes things her way and is very hard to persuade other wise. I had a hard time picking out an outfit for her this year. I loved this outfit, but was very worried that she was going to refuse to wear it, since often times I will buy her clothes and she will say " I look stupid." So I went to her room to give her her outfit. She told me to go out while she got dressed. So I walked away to go make her Birthday Breakfast, crossing my fingers that we would not have a battle. A few minutes later she came prancing into the kitchen saying "I love these leggins." Whew! dodged a bullet. I'm so glad she liked it. I though she looked adorable.
Karson and I went to visit Brinley and take her class a treat. Before they sang Happy Birthday to her, the kids got to ask Brinley some questions about herself. It was all cute until they started asking questions about me, including when I was born. I let them know that I was REALLY REALLY OLD!
When deciding on what we were going to do for Brinley's Party this year, the original plan was to go to Justice. It's a girls clothing store that also hosts Birthday Parties. You go there and do "girly" things. Like getting your hair and nails done and doing some crafty things. She had talked about for the last six months. But then she really wanted her little friend Wesley who is a little boy she always plays with to come. So She asked if we could go to Hee Haw Farms instead. Of course I was more than happy to oblige.
They had a lot of fun on the Tractor rides, slides and little spook alleys.
So here's the results of my weekend project. I have always wanted to glaze my kitchen wall, to give it kind of the Tuscany feel. So Saturday morning I headed down to Lowes to pick up some glaze. I wasn't sure what color I wanted, but I KNEW I didn't want red or orange in it. So I picked up a quart of Mocha. Went home and proceeded to glaze. Did not like it. Just looked like I had a dirty wall and I needed more color. I remembered that I had some gel stain left over from glazing Kyle's Bedroom...But it was a little orange. Went a head and gave it a try. LOVED IT! So I proceeded to do the whole big wall...HATED it. It was way too Orange but there was no turning back now. By dear neighbor Bobby used to work in the paint department at Home Depot. I knew she had a stash of odds and ends paint, so I headed over to her house to see if she could help remedy my problem. She handed me a quart of a tobacco colored stain. It did help tone it down a bit. It STILL isn't what I set out to achieve. But all in all it turned out pretty good I think. It's just a little hard to get used to.
Brian actually LOVES it. He wants me to continue it onto the next wall, where the windows are. I don't think I'm up to that, it does need some more color over there though. Any Suggestions? Right now it is a bisque color. My family thinks I'm crazy, because they always catch me just staring at my wall. I do Love how it has warmed my kitchen up.
