From Inmates to Playdates

Weeks before McDaddy left for his six month sentence deployment to Guantanamo Bay, we  made some plans involving  our basement which included some major renovations we wanted to complete. I had some grandiose idea that heading up the construction of the basement would help pass the time and that somehow, I could have it all completed before he returned.

Ahem.

That’s a little much even for me!

Shortly after that idea I discovered first hand how difficult utterly impossible exasperating it is to peel wallpaper from a wall. Wallpaper that had no desire to be separated from the wall it had been attached to for the last ten or so years.

Needless to say the removing of the wallpaper was a slow job that was not finished when McDaddy returned home. My sanity however, was finished, especially after McDaddy announced that peeling the wallpaper was not necessary because based on the shady construction of the basement walls, we should just go ahead and replace the drywall.

Alrightythen.

Sometime between the period of plotting and peeling of the paper, I was introduced to Wall Words by my URL friend, Darcie. I knew then that I wanted the Wall Words in our new area.

Even though the Great Basement Remodel of 2009 2010 is nowhere near completion, I wanted to at least share the Wall Words with you. I ordered Wall Words for the Laundry Room and for our new playroom/music room. And speaking of peeling paper off of the walls, Wall Words are pretty simple to apply. After some preliminary measuring and leveling, all you do is apply the words, rub the words and then peel the paper away.

But I will warn you though, there are colors and fonts, and colors and fonts, and colors and fonts which means that the hardest part of the Wall Words might be deciding between the colors and the fonts.

First up is the [clearly unfinished] laundry room which is actually more of a walkway between the playroom and soon-to-be-mudroom… but still, it’s where I do the laundry -

While we would never actually ‘Drop our drawers’ here (unless of course McDaddy has been working on his heap, ahem! I mean Jeep in the garage and needs to ditch the dirty clothes before entering the rest of the house), I love the saying. It makes me smile everytime I see it. The whole ‘Laundry Room – Drop Your Drawers Here’ is actually a ready-made quote from Wall Words. Don’t you just love it?

I love these daisies on the opposite wall too…

And yes, before you ask, the walls are very bright (Valspar Chickadee) and for some reason these pictures appear as though they were taken in a room full of smoke or steam.

Too bad I’m way too comfy in my big, blue, bloggy chair watching the Olympics (Oh TiVo, I do love you so!) to go back down and attempt the pictures again, so I do hope you’ll excuse the below average photography.

Just around the corner from the laundry area is the 2nd kitchen turned playroom/music room that now houses the drums, the piano and ultimately 523 versions of Lightning McQueen and his posse of course lots of  TOYS. Oh, andI still have two red mirrors to hang up but I want them to hang in a diamond shape instead of a square shape which means McDaddy will have to do some modifications to them, so I’ll post again once we get those up. (And hopefully the photography will be better!)

The picture on the wall is my favorite picture of my fellas and was taken seconds after we landed in Cuba after being away from McDaddy for over 100 days.

And my favorite part of the room, the Wall Words…

No truer words have ever been spoken written on our walls.

Very true indeed.

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And guess what? The kind folks at Wall Words Dot Com have graciously offered a $5.00 discount for any of my readers who might have some words they want to put on their walls. Just enter the code (2010JLY) at checkout.

Simple as that.

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