Natalie & Christopher in Germany

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We are Natalie and Christopher. We blog about life in the suburbs of Orlando, FL with no kids and one dog. Thanks for checking in.

I Decided to Paint the Dining Room, Almost


Over my Christmas break I decided to take down the mirrors in my dining room. I have been collecting mirrors for several years and my collection, while nice, just wasn't quite shaping up to be what I had imagined. So I decided that I needed to take the mirrors down, rethink the space, and maybe put the ones I really like back up with some other things.

After taking the mirrors down, I thought "dang this would be a good time to paint". WHY DIDN'T I JUST TELL NETFLIX THAT I WAS IN FACT STILL WATCHING?!


I told Bianca I was thinking of painting and that I wanted to go to the hardware store to get paint samples and later that afternoon we went and picked out samples. Of course, I didn't tell Christopher about my master plan because he was at work. Bianca and I swatched the three shades of blue/blue-green and I sat at the table and literally watched the paint dry while I formed opinions on the shades.

Fast forward a couple of hours, Chris comes home and is like "ummm....WTF ma'am"? He wasn't a fan of any of the colors I picked. So we went back to the hardware store and bought more samples, this time cream, light blue, and dark grey. I didn't even take pictures of those because we didn't like t hose either.

Who knew my 2 hours of "Let's Paint" would turn into weeks of deciding a paint color. January is a busy month for us, my birthday is this weekend and plus I have two friends a grandma and an aunt and 2 cousins with January birthdays, plus a baby shower this weekend. I probably won't get around to painting until February. Oh well. Next time I'll tell Netflix I'm still rewatching That 70's Show for the 40th time and convince myself that I shouldn't start a project that I can't complete on my own without getting some advice from the other person involved.

Once we finally pick a color I'll make sure to post an update. Pray for us. Picking out paint is hard. It could get ugly.
Celebrating 31 at the Happiest Place on Earth

Celebrating 31 at the Happiest Place on Earth

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