Creativity.... are you in there?

I unfortunately missed last weeks Me and YOU Monday link up with The Mother Experiment, for what reason I can't remember.

So since my last link up, Domestic Goddessness - can I really do it, I must admit I kind of went a bit 'oh well' on the housework.  Piper was up early and I had no energy to do anything, so by the end of the week, the house looked like a bomb had hit it!  I didn't add to any clutter though, except for the mess's the kids made, which I just didn't clean up, so it just piled up a bit.  Poor Mackenna, when I don't clean up her toys each night, she gets bored with them all, because she has nothing to trash explore to find them all again.  That's when she starts getting into our cupboards and drawers and rooms she's not suppose to be in and generally just gets up to mischief.  A big, huge thanks though must go to my hubby who, between the 2 of us yesterday morning, managed to make the house close to sparkle.  All that is left for me to do today is clean up what mess the girls make, change the bed sheets and tidy our room and a however many loads of washing I can get done in the available hours (....  oh and the never ending pile of folding, but that never goes away, so I don't really count that!)  I'm going to try hard to keep it like this too....  it's so much easier when you have a literally clean slate to start with.  (Let's see what happens on Friday...  it will more than likely be a different story, but I can be optimistic can't I?)

So this week, I am going to try really hard to make an effort to make a start on finishing off decorating the girls rooms.  I know, I know...  Mackenna is 20 months old now and Piper is nearly 7 months...  their rooms should have been decorated before we bought them home from hospital!  For the most part, Mackenna's was...  she had all her furniture and toys all set up, with some beautiful paintings on the wall and a little after she was born, I did individual letter canvases that spelt out her name.  They look great, from a distance, but it was my first attempt at the style that I was doing and for some reason I thought covering them with clear contact would be a great idea.  Let's just say it wasn't and if you get close enough, it is clearly obvious that they aren't perfect.  It's a real pity, because they do look good and match her other artwork just beautifully, but...  I just wish they were closer to perfect then they are.  (The artist is always the biggest critic, right!)

And Piper's room was kind of decorated... not really at all actually.  She had all her furniture, but nothing much on the walls.  Since she was born, we've added her hands and feet scultpure, some gorgeous paintings and various things that hang off the roof,  but it just needs to be finished and cleaned up properly (Cyclone Mackenna generally gets most vicious in Piper's room!) and I really want to pull everything off the walls and rehang them.

So anyways...  I have had these for a while.  MDF cutouts, just waiting to be painted and hung, which I think will finish them off perfectly.  I just can't decide 100% what colours to do and how to finish them off...  I'm not the best painter in the world and I am certainly absolutely NO GOOD at painting details.  My best bet is to use scrapbooking paper cut out in various shapes to add colours and details, so not only do I have to decide what colours are going to be best to use as my base, but I have to decide what patterns to use to 'detail' them too....  soooo many different choices and when you are the most indecisive person in the world, it can take a while and a bit overwhelming.   I think I'm going to do Mackenna's in pastel purple, pastel green and dark brown to match her other artwork, but I'm not sure how the multiple colours will look, so guess I just have to do it and see and hope for the best.  Piper's is the really hard one....  all the individual cutouts and shapes are for her room, so I have to find the right balance of colours and then paint and decorate them all up and hope like nothing else that once I get them all across her walls, they look good.  Her room is pink and white, with random pastels splashes throughout, so hopefully it shouldn't be too hard to get them all to fit in nicely.  Thankfully the girls Nana has a great eye for decorating, so once they are all painted, I'm going to get her over to help me hang them all up again!!

I'm by no means going to get these all finished this week, but to just make a good start on at least having some direction with them and to buy the materials I need, would be great.

Any suggestions are welcome in regards to colour ideas for the cutouts!!!  I need all the help I can get!!!