We are still working on Angry Kid’s room makeover.  Yes, it has been since January.  The Angry Family is quite busy.  I constantly walk around Angry Kid’s room and find more projects to do, or project’s for my husband to do.

The latest project was his laundry hamper.  Angry Kid had a white rattan laundry hamper and green gingham liner from Pottery Barn Kid’s.  He’s had the same laundry hamper since he was born.  His room used to a be a frog theme long ago.  Angry Husband was fine with the white hamper, but it drove me nuts.  Cause it didn’t match the current theme.

We started off with the white version of this rattan hamper.  I didn’t realize that I paid that much for it when I originally bought it.  Angry Husband used some matte black primer spray paint that he already had in the garage.  We (ok he) spray painted over a period of three days.  The hamper actually took about four cans of spray paint.  We already had three, so it didn’t cost us that much.  The tricky part about all of the spray painting was the holes and grooves in the rattan.

You have to make sure that you thoroughly get the paint on the inside and outside of the wicker.  Angry Husband had done three coats of paint, when I noticed white rattan peeking through.  So he sprayed one last final coat of paint on the basket.

I then realized that we still needed to figure out the hamper liner problem.  I had the current (green gingham) liner.  I looked online and did not see any liners that fit our current color scheme.  Luckily, I have this AWESOME and EXTREMELY TALENTED friend, who also sews.  I went to lunch with this friend, KELLY, and asked her about the liner.  She told me that it was super simple and to go buy the fabric.

I arrived at Kelly’s house, later that afternoon with my three yards of fabric.  I bought extra fabric just in case.  My trip to the fabric store was quite an experience.  I didn’t realize how hard it was to get solid colored fabric.  Kelly was able to match the dimensions of the original liner and she made me a new one.

I showed it to Angry Husband when I got home that night.  He was impressed.  This is why I am friends with creative crafty people, you never know when you might need help with a project.

I’m really happy with the results of our rattan project.  The black spray paint made the laundry hamper look brand new.  Can you imagine all the wonderful colors that you could paint, rattan? The ideas are endless.  Just think of all the rattan trash baskets, chairs, and tables just sitting around in your garage. I saved a ton of money by just using a little spray paint.

We have one more project left and Angry Kid’s room will finally be finished.  Hopefully, we can get it done by the end of the summer.  That is my goal.

This is Angry Kid’s new favorite phrase.  Everything revolves around, “You know what mama, I have a good idea”, or “Don’t you think that would be a good idea, uh huh, yea?” Last month, it was “Actually….”.  I think he got that phrase from his mentors Phineas and Ferb.  He is quite obsessed with that show.  I think the “good idea” thing is from there too?

My schedule changed this past week and I was off on Sunday.  My mom usually watches Angry Kid on Sundays.  So it my job to find some summer entertainment for us.  Although, it was chilly outside. Angry Kid had a another “good idea”.  He suggested going to 24Hour Fitness to get some exercise.  He said that his legs were hurting and that he needed some exercises. I guess that was the little push that I needed.  So we got dressed and headed towards the gym.  Usually Angry Kid takes forever getting dressed.  He wanders around the house, wants to wear three shirts at a time, and can’t find his shoes.  This time, he was dressed faster than me.

Oh, and going to 24Hour Fitness for Angry Kid meant me paying $3 for him to go to the Kid’s Club.  Let’s see, $3 for 2 hours of babysitting, that he asked for, SOLD.  I got a good workout on the elliptical while he played.  It was a win-win.  After working out, I headed for the Kid’s Club to pick up Angry Kid.  Of course, he had another “good idea”.  This time he suggested going to Wahoo’s Fish Tacos for lunch.  Well, it was noon-ish, so we headed towards Wahoo’s.  I suggested that we drive to Wahoo’s since it’s on the other side of the mall.  He told me that he would like to walk.

We finally arrived and ordered our food. Every TV in the place had the soccer game on.  You know “that World Cup Soccer Game”.  Angry Kid was intrigued by all of the people in the restaurant cheering and yelling at the TV’s.  I don’t think he realized that it was being  shown on the Spanish channel.  I really don’t think he cared. He was VERY into the game, and proceeded to ignore me.

Oh guess what, after we ate, he had another “good idea”. He wanted to go to the pool after lunch.  I said, “sure, let’s go.”  I let Angry Kid think that all of this was his “good ideas”.  I had already planned to go to the gym.  I knew that he liked the Kid’s Club and I could actually get a work out in.  I had to feed the kid, and I knew if the weather cleared up, we would go in the pool.  We needed to practice his strokes.

In between eating lunch and going to the pool, we came home and I cleaned up a little bit.  Angry Kid thought that it was a “good idea” for him to play Plants Vs. Zombies.

Angry Kid seems to be full of “good ideas” lately and I have none.  This pretty much summarizes our summer so far.  We’ve been BBQ’ing, swimming, organizing, and playing Plants vs. Zombies.  So far, this is our summer.

How has your summer been? Have you done anything good? Traveled? Please let me live vicariously through you….

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