If you know me personally and do not just follow me because you love me for being a crunchy parent, than chances are your on my personal facebook account and know very clearly three things about my past 2 weeks.
- My children are away on vacation with their grandparents for about two weeks!
- I miss them like crazy and have had a hard time with it.
- I have been working with my husband on a room make over for one of the children’s bed rooms!
I have a great review coming for you about what started all this but want to tall you about my love of paint as there have been many sleepless nights with me up missing my night owl baby and painting to chase away the blues of feeling like that. I love paint!
Ok so my creative side loves making a purposeful mess! My husband laughed at me because even though we had many paint rags I still insisted on drying and cleaning brushes on my shirt and pants. They are painting cloths, that’s the point right? I like them looking like it! Sorry no photo of me looking like a hot mess! Yet!
It started a bit like this:
But finding I needed more colors because well, I am me and just need more colors I had to hunt for them. The younger children had a fantastic time a month or so ago liberating the house of over half the craft paints. This left me having to get more creative than usual. I was mixing acrylics with base wall paint and then adding water colors in of even quality from bad to worse to top of line. I had a plan you see! It looked a bit like this:
Finally my husband gave up watching me insanely mixing paints trying to get the colors I want and took me to buy more. Course if I had thought ahead I would have gotten a nice set of Ready Mix Paint from the craft supplies section of this site! But I really thought I had it covered not remembering the lovely “art” my little ones had made with near all the house hold paints before.
So then I got to get back to painting and it looked a bit like this:
So far, so good! Hopefully the room will be done soon!
Till then I have learned something I am going to continue to apply in my life. Stress and worry do nothing positive but working with ones hands does a lot of good helping to keep stress and worry at bay. I used to crochet when my husband went off to war. It helped, though I never did finish any of the projects I started at that time in my life. It wasn’t about finishing then, it was about keeping my hands busy so my mind couldn’t trap me inside the worry. I think I did that these past weeks while working on this room and badly missing my children. Keeping busy helped. I can not say that this vacation has been relaxing for my husband or I. We have kept busy, not even a single night to site and just watch TV. It however helped in ways I can’t describe.
Keep busy, don’t let sorrow take you, it never goes anywhere good!
