Our first "major" project at 26 Clairmont has
been to provide a safe place for Jessie to play.
We converted one of the four upstairs
bedrooms into the following playroom for Jess
and are finally nearing the end - just a few
finishing touches to add - hooks for the curtains,
the rest of the artwork on the walls ...
The TOYS are in, and that, of course,
is the important thing!
It's a mostly IKEA space - the rug, table/stools
and curtains all came from there. The books are
an assortment of new and old (ones Meg and I had
when we were little girls!) Coincidentally, the
bookshelf was a really old, awful one I had
in my classroom in Montreal and had taken
home to sand and paint and since I got pregnant
and then moved, it never made it back into my
classroom. So, technically, I'm a theif, but at
least it's still being put to a bit of an
"educational use" ... we painted it the same
blue-green colour as the opposing wall ...
Right now, Jess likes to slide the stools off
of the table and listen to them crash on the
floor, but soon enough this table will
provide a safe space for colouring and crafts!
A very generous member of our church
graciously dontated a couch/chair set to us
when we first moved in and we slip covered the
couch (to both protect it and make it fit better
with the playroom 'decor') and used the chair
in our "reading nook" in the hallway.
How could I resist? Ken was holding her up to
the top of the playroom door ... she's so adorable!
Actually, you'll notice in this pic that we painted
the room two colours (when I say "we" I really
mean to say "my mom" when she was visiting
in April ...) The very light blue-green colour is called
"Spring Air" and the yellow is called "Sun Hat" -
both of which are from the Debbie Travis line at
Canadian Tire. These are a very close match to
the blue-green and yellow found in the IKEA rug
we chose for the room.
