Ugh… I am really behind here with my postings. The good news is I’ve been very busy with work. The bad news is I have yet to finish my taxes and I am taking an online course that saps most of what little free time I do have. I’m only complaining about the tax part. I love all the work and am enjoying being a student again! That said, let me bring you up to date with actual work, since that is the main focus of this blog.
I enlisted friend and fellow decorative painter, Tasha Cough to help me out with painting some more windows for one of the Learning Zone Daycare Centers. This is always a fun and easy job, but a bit labor intensive with the layers. Also, this work has to be done at night, when the kids are not there or else on weekends. Tasha and I decided we’d rather give up a few evening hourse vs. weekend hours.
Look who came to help??? Olson joined us one evening to assist Mama Tasha with her painting.
Other than that, the job was pretty uneventful. We knocked off 3 rooms of windows in two fairly short nights. Well, not so sure how "short" they were for Tasha, with Olson in tow! Talk about a working mother, huh?!
When I was very young and attending nursery school (ah, how that does date me…), I remember quite vividly when the decorative artist came to paint figures on our windows. It was a woman, and she came at various times throughout the year and sometimes even returned and redid the images.
If you could, I would encourage you to be there painting (even if you can’t do so every time) when the little ones are in attendance. You never know the sort of impression you may leave, and their little minds are so very impressionable, aren’t they?
It’s been more than forty years for me, yet I still can see the painter up on her ladder with her stencils taped to the window, mixing her colors and applying them. And then, voila! off would come the stencils, leaving the images for us kids to see and appreciate.
What a fond memory, Elsa! Unfortunately, in our very litigious world these days, all painting is done after hours. It’s not worth the risk on my part or the daycare center if something should happen.
Wow! The windows look amazing. I’m sure that the kids form the day care center loved it. A child care center with lots of colors and drawings helps foster a child’s imagination and creativity. Great job!