Back to Business, sort of...

I hope you all had some time to relax and enjoy time with family and friends.  I still have some family here with me, but they will be leaving later today.  I'll have a few days to regroup before my good friend Maura arrives for New Year's.  I am hosting a girls night out/in for New Year's Eve.  Weather permitting, a few of us will go into Boston on New Year's Eve, late in the day/early evening... to view the ice sculptures, see the parade and early fireworks.  After that, we will head back to my house, cook up a storm and enjoy a relaxing evening in...eating, drinking and lots of girl talk!  Then it's back to reality.

Today I am going to do a little cleaning and organizing, try to get some exercise in, and do some reading.  I have one client stopping by to pick up some samples and will give the ceiling client I did before Christmas a quick call.  They asked me to return and add a little more stenciling to the Family Room ceiling, before New Year's Eve, if possible, because they are having a big party.  I'll go do that tomorrow. The day after Christmas I received a call from a new client, a referral from another client.  This woman wants "something done" in her newly remodeled kitchen, so I will meet with her on Saturday.  I like to see my January calendar filling up. :-)

My last job, a quick striae in a dining room, went well.  This was a quick job, taking less than a day to complete.  I am hoping to return to this house to do some work on their ceiling in the dining room.  When you see the pics, you'll see that they could use a little interest on that very white ceiling!

This is my sample board (on the right), with a strip of wallpaper attached to it.  This client wanted to duplicate this wallpaper as closely as possible.  Oh, I see the picture is upside down, but you get the idea!

It's a small dining room... maybe 12' x 12'.  This is the Before Picture.

This shows the first wall I did. 

All done... It looks much nice w/o the blue tape. :-)

Another view. It's still very wet.

This ceiling would be much happier with a nice ceiling medallion stenciled around the base of this chandelier and maybe a nice scroll design in the four corners, don't you think? ;-)