I have a million things I should be doing, but I'm going to take my daughter to a well-known home improvement store to buy some paint samples instead. She wants her bedroom redone from "girly pink" to a more mature "young lady purple." She's even selected a darker purple for an accent wall.

We'll see how the samples look before I commit to painting the whole room. Shouldn't be bad as painting jobs go, at least.

When we bought the house the room was dark green and it took two coats of primer and 3 coats of paint to get the lovely soft pink to look good. I'm thinking purple will only need 2 coats. Easy! (Ha, famous last words!)

Maybe Bessie will have to paint something in her next book, just so the experience isn't wasted…although someone is moving house in book seven, so maybe the painting won't happen until then. (And yeah, I have about twenty or so books already planned in very vague terms…I love Bessie and her friends and they have a lot of exciting stuff coming up…)