Wheelie Wednesday - The Stencil

Hi everybody! It's me - Autumn!I can finally report that the guestroom has been painted antique white and mom and I have worked very hard on the stencil and at last it's completed!

We're sorry to say that it's not an Airedale stencil! We really did consider it and we even went as far as to draw it out and cut it out and we even tried it out with stencil paint inside the chimney cupboard but mom said it looked yucky and unprofessional and she painted right over all that hard work! Maggie and Mitch were pretty upset to hear this bit of news! OOPS! Sorry, guys!

This is the stencil that mom used. Don't tell anyone but mom swiped this idea off the internet and cut her own stencil!

We liked the idea of an Autumn theme (my mom is so smart) with oak leaves and acorns and berries so that's what we did! This particular stencil requires several different stencil paint colors so you have to stencil one color at a time, wait for it to dry and go around the room again and again until all of your colors are on the wall! It's tedious but well worth your efforts!

We started with the green leaves. And then we added red to a portion of the oak leaves and then came around again and this time we added gold to the same leaves!

This is the completed stencil! You can see that we added the brown branch and red berries!

Mom has also been stripping woodwork and those are just about done too!

You can see also see the trim color we decided on around the doors and the firebox! We have pretty much finished all that we can do in the bedroom for now and we're out in the workshop helping dad prepare the floors. The floors are an incredible amount of work and we're hoping to have them down in a month or so!

Mom can't wait to move the furniture back in and invite our first guest! Who wants to be first?!

See you all next Wednesday!

Love, Autumn