Going Green with Paint

Yesterday the weather finally warmed up enough to begin painting the front door! The painters finished the second coat today. It looks amazing! I love it. It's called Belle Meade Green. I got a history lesson on the color at the Porter Paint store. I know you want to know....

So, apparently, in the city of Belle Meade just up yonder from us, about 10 years ago a builder mixed himself up some paint with 3 parts black and 1 part green. He liked how it turned out so he used it on a couple of his homes. Then other home owners in Belle Meade (and it's a swanky area lemme tell ya) started requesting the color, but Porter didn't actually have it. So they cataloged the color but there are no actual paint chips and you can't find it in the Porter Paint Wheel. You have to ask for it. And people are still askin' for it today.

Luckily for me, Lara knew it was called Belle Meade Green (because she painted her stair railing MY Belle Meade Green! :) and she said to call Porter Paint or see if Home Depot had it in their computers. They didn't; so I called Porter Paint. I got the c'mon down and we'll set you up jest fine...and yak your ear off while your paint is a mixin. Oh, and there's a color called Franklin Green, but I won't go into that one. I'm thinking they didn't have alot of female customers that day. What a nice bunch of guys though. They shook up a Benjamin Moore can of white trim paint for me I bought a few years ago and never opened and only teased me for 5 minutes about it. They even carried my paint to the truck for me.

The shutters were repainted as well and mom's window trim. We also had the painters do a few touch up jobs inside the house. Nice to get a few things beautified. We also got a new windshield put in on the Volvo. It got hit by a rock on the drive to Macon and cracked. Bummer.

While all that work was getting done I cleaned the house and baked cookies. Wow, what a domestic day for me.

I planned on attaching a photo of the beautiful new green door but I left my camera at preschool. Drats! I lent it on Tuesday to another teacher who needed to document an IEP (individual education plan) report and she forgot to give it back to me until Thursday when I went to collect it. So I didn't have it on Wednesday so I didn't get any photos and we always send photos each week of our activities - both for the parents and for documentation of fine motor, gross motor activities, etc. covered in class. It was a great day for photos too but without a T.A. (because that's MY job, but I'm a teacher on Wednesday's so we don't have one as an extra pair of hands and to go for stuff for you).

I wouldn't have been able to leave my room to go get it even if I had half a second to think about it which I didn't because we were elbow deep in 8 colors of paint (ROY G. BIV + W) and about 25 sheets of paper that had to be painted Eric Carle style - which means more than once and with texture! We painted in the morning a solid bottom color and then we painted on top of all the paintings again in the afternoon with sponges, rollers, dots, scrapers, and a whole bunch of things. We went through an entire roll of paper towels and half a box of wipes. It took me an hour to wash out all the paint brushes and tools after school. See the example of the Eric Carle style here - now image that as a cat collage made out of 5 different colors from our paintings....they are sooo cute!

I just hope my camera is still locked in the preschool room. I may have to drive over there and look for it. You hate that it isn't safe in a church Sunday School room, but I guess nothing is anymore.