The Susie Smith Makeover show

This is long, long overdue, but THANK YOU SUSIE SMITH!!! While we could have spent the weekend of August 29th thinking about Katrina's effects (or more likely watching a marathon of Little People, Big Dessert of New Jersey), we instead hosted Ms. Smith at Rancho Rogelio for our own makeover show: a remodel of the baby's room. Rather than traipsing around the Quarter with a daiquiri in hand, Susie spent sunup to sundown (or longer) planning, purchasing, painting, pinning, sewing, straightening, assembling and rearranging the baby room. With a daiquiri in hand. Loyal helpers Annie and Sutton helped make things happen (thanks for the sewing, Annie!), and I put some furniture together and bought a laser level. At least that's how I remember it.

So why remodel the baby's room? I mean, its just a baby; what does he care what color it is, or what's on the walls, or what the dresser looks like? Because before Susie came, it looked like this:

Before she came, susie told us to get the room painted white for a blank slate type of effect. We did the walls in flat winter white and the trim in gloss swiss coffee, which sounds brown, but it's not. Looks white to me anyway. We already had the crib, changer/dresser, and rug, but Sut and suse went out and got the bedding, window fabric, picture frames, and all of that sort of stuff. Annie, Susie, and Sutton sewed the stuff together, but Susie painted and put on the wall stickers that you'll see in a second. As I said before I put the furniture together and bought a level. I also got really tired and took a nap.

So here's what it all wound up looking like. This is the peek in through the door.

If you look closely at this second picture, you can see Sutton in the corner with her hand over her mouth. Maybe it is making her sick.

The third picture has her with this 'wow' kind of look, where people look around and say "wow." Behind her is the picture wall or the Wall of Ancestors. I am not up there yet. Trying to tell me something?

THANKS AGAIN SUSE!