What do you get when you mix

'pale yellow' and 'white lilac'? Well, if your an idiot like me, you get paint on what was otherwise a perfectly good pair of pants... You also get the warm creamy bedroom color you were going for...well...sort of....in certain lights....maybe.

Some perfectly lovely friends of ours donated their left-over AFM Safecoat paints to us for our house.

Safecoat makes products that are specially formulated for chemically sensitive people. While they are not tolerated by everyone, I tend to do
pretty well with them once they have cured.

Like most things suitable for people with MCS, Safecoat comes with a hefty price-tag. It was such a wonderful thing to receive such a gift! It will save us so much money and we have the joy of being resourceful and knowing that we aren't creating more waste. Recycling rules!

We have a couple of gallons of primer. We have a deep orange paint that isn't quite dark enough to be called pumpkin, but pretty close. There is a bright green that is somewhere between mint and spring. There is 'pale yellow', which is pretty self explanatory and 'white lilac' which is a purple tinted white. I only have partial gallons of each of these. So now the trick is to mix them in such a way that will suit our aesthetic needs as well as give us the coverage we are looking for.

I think we need to generally stick with light colors because of the scale that we are working
with. I thought that a shade of cream would be warm, inviting and peaceful in the bedroom.
And there is always the chance that it might make it seem larger.

As usual I'm starting to get cold feet. I've seen some sensational pics of colorful bedrooms on-line lately and I wonder if I'm not being daring enough. Maybe I should have taken the green and fooled around with it instead? As it stands my options are limited. I didn't think I could get the kind of green I was looking for with the paints that I had available.

I now have nearly a full can of my new paint color. I painted small patches all over the room to get a feel for it. I think I'm going to tweak it with just a touch of the orange and hope for the best.

Things are moving slowly, but at least they are moving. Steve pulled down the rest of the ceiling on the west slope. He installed all of the ship-lap that we had on hand and started taking down the boards on the eastern slope.

Meanwhile I had a date with a hammer and a nail set. Hundreds of nails later and I'm still not quite done. I occasionally took a break from setting nails to start filling nail holes. Tedious.

We had wanted to start painting this weekend, but as it turns out the primer we have is only for new wall board, not wood. *sigh* thwarted again...

We decided to try to sell the boys' old bedroom set on Craig's list. We've hoping to get enough money to be able to buy either an unfinished dresser or the supplies to start making bunk-beds for the boys. We got the bedroom set all dug out and cleaned up over the weekend. I took a ton of pictures and I will be putting up our ad after I post this. Wish us luck!

After being inspired by pictures of another mama's bedroom I think I've decided that I want to try to bring my belly cast up here. It's not the most stunning thing in the world, but it has a lot of sentimental value. I'm hoping that if I wash it down with borax (to kill any mold) then finish it with a coat of AFM (to seal in any odors) that it will be safe. I think I'm going to use the 'white lilac' for it. I've yet to decide whether I'll do any decorative painting on it or not.

I'm trying to address our clothing issues. It's not easy for me. I have no problem sorting through clothes and tossing what needs to be tossed, it's just that the logistics are a nightmare.

Most of our clothes are down at the other house. Spending time in the other house makes me ill. And well, being ill is unpleasant and often times painful.

Then there is the issue of how and where to store things. Ugh! I have an eventual plan worked out, but it's no help right now.

I can't store things in cardboard boxes at the old house without risking them getting moldy and we would definatly have to toss out the boxes (it seems stupid to buy boxes we know we are going to have to get rid of). They couldn't possibly come up here. If I store things in plastic I risk not being able to use them again because of the funky plastic smell. We've lost a lot of clothes to this.

I finally started sorting some of the clothes anyway. I've been doing it in short little spurts. I went through Elijah's drawers and put all of the stuff he's grown out of into the bottom drawer of my dresser until Galen can wear them. I also went through the boys' closet and pulled a bunch of stuff to be donated.

Not much knitting going on these days. I finished a few more repeats on the Herringbone Sweater, that's about it. I've been spending an inordinate amount of time, in the middle of the night, looking at other people's knitting and reading about their lives.