autumn and ravens: it takes a village to...paint a house?

WHAT A DAY!

we successfully painted almost the entire house in roughly 12 hours today! we still have three doors and two doorways to paint, and that's IT!

and i must say, it looks LOVELY! i am so excited to have some color on the walls! i think it looks beautiful! and i also am so happy that the house is mostly put back together, too...(still waiting on the paint to dry in our bedroom, and dont worry all my wonderful, concerned, friends and family, im not sleeping in the fume-y bedroom with wet paint...!)

for as exhausted as i am right now, i feel VERY satisfied. i had a great day! painting went relatively quick and the company was awesome. atreyu acted like a jerk, most of the day (he's pretty much in love with raye and followed her around the whole time she was here)...he's now the dog of many colors - he walked into pretty much every wall and paintbrush he could get his fur on...he looks absurd.

raye totally killed it with the cutting in! (and the yellow in my kitchen looks absolutely delicious!) mike paints like a tortoise, but you know what they say - slow and steady wins the race. well, maybe not the race, but his work looks flawless. (which is more than i can say for what happens if you put a paint BRUSH in my hand - disaster! but give me a roller and i'll blow your mind!) ang helped me roll a couple of walls and then painted the beadboarding and our windows with a fresh coat of white and they look lovely! and i was so grateful because i cant paint those things to save my life! my mom primed some windows and painted the high and low parts of the hallway that i couldnt reach! she also did some awesome doorway painting/patching and made our hallway look brand new...ahh! im so excited about all of it! and then, dominick came over and helped mike cut in in our bedroom and then helped me with some post painting cleanup which was awesome of him.

i think mike and angela were totally high for a small window of time while painting our bedroom which obviously wasnt well ventilated enough...