Photos

A photo of the finished mural before we put furniture in the room. The wind turbines were created to scale with actual wind turbines, and took at least three coats of paint each in order to obscure the paint behind them.

Kelsey applying a second coat to the hills.

Kevin was overconfident and didn’t use plastic while toting around his paint bucket, and got burned by it when he accidentally spilled paint on the carpet. A dozen wet rags and a bunch of OxyClean later, and the mess was cleaned up.

The second layer of hills is done, and the sun has been painted.

Kevin filling in one of the hills that has been edged.

Detail work in the corner of one of the hills using a small paintbrush.

A corner of the room with the sky finished.

We penciled in the hills and put numbers on them to indicate which were going to be what color.

Kelsey taping off the trim in the nursery in preparation for painting it.

In order to take the photo of the Mori painting head-on without getting the reflection of the flash, Kevin had to take the photo without a flash, using a long exposure time. In order to get the camera to stay steady during the one second exposure time to prevent blurring, he attached it to a … Continued

Kevin hand-edging the boundary of the sky on the wall mural.

Kevin priming the nursery. It was hot that day – can you tell?

The nursery, fully primed, ready for painting. We had to put the two dressers in the middle of the room to give ourselves space to paint.

The sanded boat, ready for the glue coat that goes over the entire boat.

The final coat of glue applied to the seams on the outside.

The finished joints with their thick layer of glue applied.

Applying glue to the seams along the outside.

Although the blur was actually caused by capturing motion in a low-light setting, the glue dried quickly, so Paul had to work fast.

The boat fully prepared for the gluing process.

The pieces of the boat needed to be wired together so that they could be held in place for the glue to be applied.

The joints needed to be masked off so that the glue wouldn’t transfer beyond a predetermined area.

The boat with the wiring job finished.

Rory slept through the majority of the Flag Day parade in Saratoga.

Jim with three babies (only one of them is his, of course).