Day 7 – the bathroom that would not be cleaned
March 27th, 2010
See all that stuff on the floor? Yesterday I spent hours working on organizing the bathroom, sorting through all the shampoos and lotions and bandages that seem to accumulate and multiply in bathroom cupboards. I should really say, I spent hours trying to work on it. I kept getting distracted by children needing food, or helping Brenda hem and hang Annalie’s curtains, or reheating my coffee, or a million other things. (If you can’t spot me, check Troy’s shaving mirror in the shower. Or view largest to snoop!)
I’m sort of shrugging and sighing over the fact that I ended this 7 Days with a lame photo of my messy bathroom. But I’m also cutting myself some slack. I’ve had a busy week!
One of the things distracting me yesterday was this project. We were making a photo wall! I’ve wanted a photo wall like Joe & Kassie’s for ages. This house has the perfect wall for it, so I’m finally gonna have one, whee! We laid all the photos down on paper in the arrangement we liked, traced around the frames, and marked where the nails would go. Then we hung the paper on the wall and hammered the nails right through the paper. Worked like a charm.
While we were hanging frames, Annalie built this pet shop out of mega blocks, filled it with her Littlest Pet Shop animals, and drew some posters. She offered to sell me a puppy for the price of a black-and-white cookie. I thought that was a pretty good deal.
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I would like to know, when I have kids, how i go about putting in an order for a kid just like Annalie?
I do not think the bathroom shot is a lame self-portrait. I admit to loving the strawberry-in-mid-air one more, but at least you found a way to get yourself in a shot that has a story. I’ve thought about trying 7 days but I worry I wouldn’t even manage any sort of shot of myself that many days in a row. That and the “style” theme scare me a bit.
That photo wall is going to be awesome and I will try to remember to use that method when we live somewhere we can put that many holes in the wall.
Hmm. Better start taking photos with me in them so I can be on our wall someday.
I love photo walls!! I totally want one too!! Great idea about tracing on paper!
I also love that Annalie sold you one of her pets for a cookie!! Smart girl!
A mini-window in the shower? Such light! A perfect shelf! How cute!
Your idea of placing wall photos is brilliant, haha don’t know why it hadn’t occurred to me before!
I’m still not done with the 7 Days pool – at least I know there won’t be any more shots coming! I like your final shot – hell, anything where I can snoop at other people’s stuff is a winner!
Wanna come back to California and help me make our rental house feel like we just bought it? Because on the eve of the house going thru I’m suddenly feeling overwhelmed with paint options, flooring decisions and projects I’ve been putting off but now feel inclined to do – like organizing and decorating. Brenda is invited too! :)