I was painting with my daughter yesterday. Her room, which she has waited eons to transform from a perfectly adorable apple green and fuchsia to an in-your-face lime, and the aforementioned Feverish Pink. With a generous dose of zebra stripes thrown in for good measure.
She's 11, going on 17. She plays soccer, sings, and likes a boy. She has academic ambitions and dreams of pop star fame.
For a little while longer, her dad and I can give her most of what she wants in life. So he hooked up her very own pc, in her newly created computer nook, and I gave her zebra, lime, and Feverish Pink.
She did have to help, though. And she rolled the paint on with such an expert hand that even I, the pro, was impressed. If not for the obnoxious color choice, we might not even have needed a second coat!
Truth be told, I can't wait to slap that second coat on, just so I can move on to installing the silver curtain rods I picked up at IKEA for 75% off, and hanging the silvery satin and fuzzy zebra panels I sewed for her today. Photos of the whole endeavor will be forthcoming.
Later on, Linnea might very well say "Feverish Pink! What was I thinking?". But for now, it's her dream come true. And if her mom has anything to do with it, she will have her dream room. So that later on she can say, "Feverish Pink! I can't believe you let me have Feverish Pink, and lime green, and zebra stripes! Thank you, mom!"
