When Patrick's away....

Kiera feels the need to re-decorate.  Patrick was away on business this past week (doesn't that sound so professional?) and I felt the need to paint the remaining two brown doors in the kitchen as well as the wainscoting poking out the sides.  Not as grand a plan as I've had in the past, but it still took some doing.  Here are some pics:

Before:

(notice the doorway, not the baby)

Intermediate:

I hate having to primer things...stupid dark wood. ;)

After:

This only took a day, which was nice.  I primered/taped while the kids were awake (and miraculously they didn't get into it) painted the first two coats during their nap and then finished up after they went to bed.  I think it helped lighten the room....unfortunately I think it also made the ugly wallpaper stick out whereas before you didn't notice it so much.  Consequently the next day I got it into my head to try and pull off all of the wallpaper in the kitchen.  "Maybe it will come off easy," I thought, "then I can repaint the kitchen before the baby comes and wouldn't that be awesome?"  So I spent an entire load of laundry peeling wallpaper...after an hour I had managed to remove about 3/4 of one small corner by the garbage can.  That's when I decided it was too much work and quit.  We'll paint the kitchen some other time. 

So I also decided randomly at 2:30 in the morning the night before Patrick left, that maybe I wanted bangs again.  I did a search for short curly hair with bangs and found this pic:

So I went into the bathroom and kind of parted it where it should go and thought "yeah that might be cute, maybe I"ll go get a haircut when Patrick comes back..."then I thought; "screw it, where's my scissors?"  I then proceeded to cut my hair.  The day after painting the kitchen I also decided to dye it.  The hair dye I bought was supposed to be very close to my natural color.  After I was done I thought it looked really dark, but after holding up a piece of the bangs I had cut previously I found it really was my color...I just had way more highlights before than I thought I did.  After coloring my hair I went to fix it in the mirror...and decided that the back was way longer than the front and that I didn't like it.  So I pulled out the scissors again and started hacking away.  It's very hard to cut the back of your own hair.  I'm not sure how bad it is yet since I let it go curly and you can't tell as easily where it's uneven.  So here is a pic of the finished product (yes I know it's sticking up funny on the side) as well as my 36 wk belly.  :P

Patrick is going away again next week.  I don't have any major plans to do anything yet, but who knows what will happen?