my weekend in

This weekend tropical storm Hanna seemed threatening... but we were blessed and just got rain and some wind. Nevertheless, we stayed inside mostly, because of the weather. And, what better to do on a weekend when your stuck inside, than paint! That's right friends, I have a problem and it revolves around painting (and re-painting) rooms. When we moved in last summer the house needed fresh paint desperately- but in time, some of the colors I chose initially I regretted. So in one year our room has been painted twice (the green was so boring and I was ready for a change) and now our upstairs bathroom has gotten its second make-over as well. It was a bright blue which I just got tired of quickly. It was too dark for the little bathroom. I wanted something cleaner and crisper. The way of convincing my husband of this Saturday remodeling was explaining why a bathroom needs more of a semi-gloss finish (I am not really a fan of shiny walls so we did 'eggshell' at first, but it didn't hold up well to the everyday usage). Success! A happy new shiny-walled bathroom. Here's the end result:

Then the storm headed out in the late afternoon and left what I think is one of the coolest skies I have seen at camp. The colors of the sunset were so bright while the rest of the sky was still really dark- and this doesn't really do it justice: