Special Monday’s

Today was our second “special Monday” with Tyler & Gracie. They started off the day at a church camp, so Christi  and I headed for Holland.  Several months ago Christi heard of a “Blockbuster” store going out of business.  They were selling everything, including any store display’s and shelving.  Christi found the shelving units they used to display DVD’s to rent, would work out great for her “Stampin’ Up!” room downstairs.  She thought she could use it to store her stamp set’s and other items as well.  Today was pickup day.  So we took apart the shelving we had purchased and loaded them up and took them home.  We brought them into the basement to clean before putting them up and painting them.  When Tyler and Gracie got home, and after lunch we started on our project.  Tyler was a great help to Grandpa as we had to vacuum all the cobwebs (they were loaded!!) and then wipe them down.

       

                                    

Then Tyler helped Grandpa cut the carpet and roll it up to make room for the shelves.

                      

                                   

While Grandpa and Tyler were doing that, Gracie helped Grandma clean off a shelf that had to be moved.  She worked so fast on one picture the camera could not even stop her in her tracks.

             

            

Tyler took a picture of Grandma and Grandpa moving the first unit into place, and then Grandpa finished putting the middle unit together again.

               

Tyler was a great help to Grandpa by helping him repair a broken piece.

          

There, the three units are all put back together and in their right place.  Now Grandma thinks she needs them painted as she said “After all I work with colors so I better show off one of our paper colors”.  So Gracie and Grandma went to Gemmen’s and picked some paint supplies and the paint called “Rich Razzleberry”.

                                     

Tyler, Gracie, Grandma, and Grandpa all started painting these units.  Tyler did a great job with the roller, and Gracie helped out with a brush. 

              

              

The first coat is all done and looks like it may take at least one or two more coats.

WOW! seeing it like this – I’m thinking, “BRIGHT!!” It didn’t seem that bright on the card stock. I’m sure when the room gets completely finished it will be just perfect.

                           

A big thanks goes out to Tyler and Gracie for their help on this “Special Monday”  Next week we will do something they will enjoy more, but they both had a great attitude about working today.

Dale & Christi