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We got the first coat of paint on the walls on Sunday and the room immediately transformed, still no appropriate adjectives — Jessica says that her choices for colors escape description. Of course now she wants a theme song, too. Something that speaks to her personality. The Pinky and the Brain theme song comes closest for her, I think. While I was starting in on the first wall, this is of course what she was painting:

There was a “Fjord” on another wall, though I don’t have a picture of that one. If Pinky were also a genius then it would fit her perfectly, unfortunately Pinky is only insane…

At any rate, here is the room after we finished the second coat of paint we put on last night. Its looking really, really good.

Now that the paint is up, all thats left to do is replacing the electrical outlets and light switches with the black ones we got, replacing the light fixture (which is, shall we say, uniquely her), the molding and trim and running the ethernet jack from the cable we left in the ceiling when we wired the house.

Will post more on the progress as it, uh, progresses…

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After Jessica saw what I had posted today, we had the following IM conversation:

[11:55:49 AM] <Truffle> there’s a gnome in the first set of pics
[11:56:05 AM] <gottafixthat> LOL. Of course there is.
[11:56:12 AM] <Truffle> gack!
[11:56:18 AM] <gottafixthat>
[11:56:20 AM] <Truffle> oh, and I’m mad at you
[11:56:24 AM] <gottafixthat> Why?
[11:56:33 AM] <Truffle> you never posted the second pumpkin I did
[11:56:37 AM] <gottafixthat> I suck

So, here is the second pumpkin she carved last year. It does look really, really cool (click for huge size):

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Since we moved into our house back in early 2003, we’ve slowly but surely been redecorating rooms and fixing the place up. We’ve had a few people live with us in that time, and each time, Jessica has always sacrificed her space. The first time was her sister, who was escorted out by the Sheriff in handcuffs (thats another story though). After her sister *ahem* moved out, Jessica took over the back room to be her craft room. We redecorated my den before we did her room, and the room that was to be hers became a sort of holding room for stuff we didn’t have a place for yet. This is what it looked shortly after her sister moved out and before Jessica moved in the first time (ignore all the stuff, it has all since found a place to be put away):

Note the horrible colors, the border, and the shelves. The previous owners of the house had a serious affection for mollies and we’ve pulled at least 20 of them out of the walls in this room.

Earlier this year we were helping out a couple and let them stay with us for about 4 months. Jessica once again moved out of her room. They moved out last weekend, so, with the room now empty, we decided to give Jessica her own space painted and decorated the way she wants it. It is to be a geek-girl/modern princess room. To be honest, though, with the way she wants it, there are no appropriate adjectives for it. It will look really good when its done, but there is no way to pigeon hole it into a particular style.

They moved out last Saturday, and last Sunday we stripped the wallpaper border, which helped a lot (click for full size if you dare).

After Jessica spackled the dozens of holes in the wall on Friday night:

As I said before, Jessica has picked out the color scheme for this room. We’re doing three colors, the ceiling is a very pale pink, the walls are a very dark “India ink” color and last night we picked up a color called “Petal” which is a brighter pink for her to do the base boards and molding. We got the ceiling painted yesterday, and it does look quite a bit better:

We’re painting the walls today, I’ll post again after that is done…

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