Where we discuss matters in our areas of expertise – Dan in film and Misono in design. We will also showcase some of our work here from time to time.
As many of you know, we haven’t gone a year without building and decorating a gingerbread house (see exhibits here, here, here, and here, and we weren’t about to skip it this year. We found something a little different this time, though – a gingerbread turkey kit from Trader Joe’s! We thought it was a fun departure from the usual house, and it also gave us an excuse to exercise our decorating skills a little early, around Thanksgiving time instead of Christmas!
We spent most of Labor Day weekend painting the girls’ rooms. We only expected to spend a day painting, but because the previous color of the walls were such a strong blue, it took more coats than expected and the process ended up taking up our whole three-day weekend! We were pretty happy with the results, though. Check out the before and after…
For Mio’s room, we painted the whole room in an ivory with a very subtle hint of pink, and we chose a light coral with which to paint a striped accent wall. We loved how it turned out, and so did Mio!
Here’s a video of her waking up to the reveal…
For Mirei’s room, we chose a very delicate and sophisticated shade of pink. I love that it is not too garish or childish, and will be a timeless wall color that she won’t outgrow too quickly.
Mio’s definitely at the age now where she can appreciate decorating Easter eggs, so I picked up a dyeing/decorating kit for us and had some creative family fun with it on Saturday night!
Mio drew her first family picture the other day! She had taken a long time to get to the point of drawing faces, so we were surprised and impressed when she drew our family!
I’m looking forward to how her drawings of our family will grow as she gets older… 🙂
Flint Hill Elementary School was having a holiday craft fair on December 6, so we took the girls to go check it out! The school is the elementary school that I attended growing up, so it was nostalgic to walk through its halls again, decades later and with my own young children. Our primary purpose of going was to see Santa Claus, since we had read that he was going to be making an appearance there, but sadly his visit had been cancelled. (This seems to happen often with us.) Mio was discouraged, but she got to enjoy some holiday crafting before we left:
Alas, visiting Santa would have to wait until another day…