This is O in the April A to Z Blogging Challenge
I’ll be the first to admit that having two blogs in the April A to Z blogging challenge has been – well – a challenge. Add it on top of my Squid angel duties, updating and creating Squidoo lenses, working on my Zazzle stores, housework, hubby, and – I admit – long hours playing silly computer games and it has had me glued to the computer almost all day every day. I was really looking forward to having Sunday off.
Which left me sitting in the sun, reading a book, thoroughly enjoying life with my pal Mooshie – a stray who visits for the occasional bowl of IAMS.
Here’s a better pic of Moosh.
I can only do this for so long. In fact, what I am doing here is working. You may find this hard to believe. Most people do. But behind those closed eyelids I am working on a drawing, a painting, a story. Really. I am.
Which brings us to the ocean on my window. I have a cheap little trick that I use to avoid buying or making curtains for the windows. I paint them. The windows that is. This isn’t the best solution for every single window – but it’s perfect for some. Such as our bathroom window.
You don’t want people looking in your bathroom window. Yet we love the great light we get through that window. The bathroom is bright enough most of the day to leave the lights turned off. I have this mental concept of bathing the bathroom in a faint bluish light that will make us feel like we are in an aquarium and then decorating the walls, shower curtain, etc. with a fish/ocean theme. I think it will be beautiful and restful and make it a great place to relax in that big, deep tub with scented bath water and a glass of wine. 
So I finally pried myself out of that sunny chair and went to work on the window. I mixed several shades of blue, purple and green acrylics and used one of those nice wide (cheap, disposable) sponge brushes to lay on the first coat.
This immediately made a big difference in the light in the room. These are before and after photos of the floor tiles (the bathroom is painted white with a pale stone looking linoleum floor)
We decided that was actually too dark. So this morning after it had dried, I scraped the paint off the top two or three inches of the window to let some light back in. You’d have to be seven feet tall to see in that part of the window and if you want to see the top of my head that bad…
Now that the background is dry, I can add some fish. And sharks. And a ray. A squid. Couple of starfish.
- Outside
Unfortunately, it has some sort of bad spots. The person here before us must have had some sort of film over the window that left a lot of glue behind, making the window cloudy and sticky. I scraped as much off as I could, then hubby went over it again with Windex and a scrubby, then a razor blade – but obviously we missed some of it. By the way – another nice thing about window painting is when we are ready to move out – or if we get tired of the ocean and decide to redecorate, a scraper will take the paint off with minimal effort and muss.
Of course I’m writing a lens about how to do window painting with all the details – but you’ll have to wait until tomorrow for it. I want to take a few photos after dark when you’ll be able to see the details better without the sun shining through the window.
The Squidoo money has moseyed into the bank so I need to take off here and buy a few more groceries, put a bit of gas in the car, and I hope save enough to do a bit of laundry. It ain’t much but that little bit sure enough helps! I’ll be back later to draw “O” coloring pages for the Free Printable Coloring Pages Blog
What possessed me?
