Mother-Daughter Tea Party, July 6th

Make a Smilebox photobook

Painting the town

Here are some photos of our painting escapades. 

Happy Independence Day!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

On The Road Again . . .

Okay, here I go again-but not on my own (who sings that?  Bon Jovi??)!  We will be painting the halls in the elementary wing this week (June 16th) on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday night at 6:30.  Bring your paint brush, roller holder-thingy, and your paint tray.  I'll supply the rollers and tray liners.  We'll be painting again next Wednesday, Jun 25th at 6:30 and Monday, June 30th at 6:30.  Please come and bring a friend!  My goal is to have the base coats on the halls done by July!  No pressure or anything!

On the right you can see some of the sketches that will go in the nursery hallway and inside the nursery rooms.  They are black and white, but the finished project will be in color.  The nursery theme is "Baby Beach."  ZPC member, Jennifer Phillips has been volunteering her time and talents for this area of the make-over.

Are you totally pumped up about our beautiful new Children's area?  Get a group together and adopt a classroom!  Call me to get details:  815-8827 or email me:  amyc@zpc.org.  We could use volunteers to paint, or even babysit!

Oh, you're probably wondering, "What is going on with the walls in the nursery?"  or "That lady told us we were doing the Nursery Welcome Center next.  They angled the desk, is that all there is to it?"  No, no, no, silly people.  

First the walls:  We took the wallpaper down and the drywall was not sized or primed so the glue stuck to the walls and where the glue didn't stick to the wall, the wall stuck to the glue!  So we had to mud it all over again.  When that is dry and primed we will start on the nursery hallway.  

Next the welcome center:  I am waiting for a way to pay for some things that we will need that does not involve paying for them with the Crispin family credit card.  My husband is a good sport about this, but the c.c. bills are taking years off of his life.  I am getting reimbursed, but if you're the one who does the bills in your house, you know that the check never arrives before the bill.  Another reason I am putting that off is because Annette is getting a brand new desk.  I want to wait until she gets that before I start barreling my way through.

Change of Plans

Instead of the Nursery Welcome Center, we are going to do the wall across from the Children's Welcome Center.  We're simply going to paint a golden sand color and maybe add some sparkle to it somehow.  We cannot do this on May 28th because of a conference that is going on in the church that week.  I will be out of town the following week, so I am hoping we can do it on the week of June 9th.  Let me know if you can help.

Smokin!

We are on fire!  I had three great volunteers come and help me paint the Children's Welcome Center last night.

Jaime Miller, Cherie Castle, and Mark Perry!

When you see them please thank them and tell them how much you love the work they did.  They spent three hours at church and we got the entire CWC walls painted--three coats, and the desks got their first coat of stain, including a quick run in with the sandpaper!

We had a great time together.  We ate junk food, listen to music and talked about colons, prostates, anesthesia, our mother's, husbands who avoid house work by mowing the lawn (sometimes twice in one day--of course not Mark!) among many other things!  If this sounds like your kind of volunteer opportunity--come help us next time!  We'd love to see you!

The next project is the Nursery Welcome Center.  Annette is getting a shiny new desk and we are going to give her a pretty back drop for it!  I haven't set the date for that, but I'm thinking May 28th.  I don't let the grass grow under my feet.

I don't know if you can tell, but decorating is one of my passions!  This stuff gets me pumped up and excited.  I hope it will do the same for our parents and children.  Here is what I equate a spiffy room/area to. . . 

In third grade all the kids wanted Mrs. Wilson for fourth grade.  (Some of you are saying, "Oh Jeeze--The Mrs. Wilson story again!  Bare with me!)  Was it because she had the ability to make our test scores better?  Nope.  Was it because she didn't give home work?  Definitely not it.  It was because of two reasons:  ONE:  She was pretty!  TWO:  She had a tee-pee in her room.  So, I ask myself, "Are children only interested in what lies on the inside like we teach them?"  Sadly, no.  What matters to a child is their first impression of you.  I want every child's first impression of ZPC to be one of excitement, pride, and love.  Then once we get them hooked we'll slam them with homework, just like Mrs. Wilson!!!