The Project: color & roof repair

This past week there was a lot of staring at my color book. Talking to it, protecting it from the kids messing up my perfectly fanned cards and carrying it around to place it in different lights. I even laid out the plan for my kids and tried to explain that we must establish a proper flow. They looked at me blankly and walked away. With the exception of Tristan. I think he gets it. Yes!

Here's where I've landed for the time...
Some rooms will have two colors as one or two walls will be accent walls. The game room will have a wide horizontal stripe (I think). Looking at it right now, it looks like a lot of color for a small house and it doesn't even include colors for my studio. Yikes! I may have to revisit this.

We also took advantage of the "warmer" days to get some roof repair done. I mentioned about the hole in the game room here. If you will remember we had this opening through the roof.We gathered our supplies and up we went to re-tar and re-shingle the roof around that area. Something I know nothing about. But years of my husband watching This Old House does sometimes pay off and I should consider relenting on my poking fun at him for it.

Noted.

Usually during a project, I'm right in there with Kalin. Side by side, working and chatting, bouncing ideas off one another.

NOT ON A ROOF. I don't do heights. Nope.

But Kalin said I should come up there and face my fears. So I did but I was no help. Thank God for Seth. He was a natural.

He even stood up and walked around. (I do the crab crawl.)

Most of the time I sat in the vertical fetal position and yelled "Be Quiet!" as if that would help anything. I insisted Seth stay at least 4 shingle rows from the edge. He ignored my safety warnings and gave me that "Geez Mom!" look. Then pretended to lose his balance which made me scream. They laughed at me a lot. I did manage to wiggle out my phone to take a picture of them working.
And one of my state of panic.
At one point I texted my mom to tell her about the serious situation at hand. But I forgot to mention that..

A) I decided to close the studio early to work on the house...she thought my plan was to sew for the day.
B) That Kalin was with me on the roof...she assumed that I was alone.
C) That it was almost time to get down...just so happens Kalin got me off the roof just after I sent the initial text. Which as you can see may have caused a bit of "motherly panic" for her and I think did as she throughly explained during a phone conversation immediately following. Whoops.

We also got the roof vent installed for the bathroom fan. During this project, the guys left me alone on the roof for minutes on end. Which was not fun. Plus, it was a super windy day. I couldn't bring myself to take any pictures during that time. I do apologize.

I'm glad it's over.

Well, I think it's over. We'll see as the snow starts to melt if our (ahemmm "their") handywork will hold up. I think it will.