Adventure awaits!

Oh! I so want this for my Glamper!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/172408669/adventure-awaits-art-print

Howard Hughes' Airstream

When I woke up this morning, I had no idea I would be stepping into Howard Hughes' personal, custom-made from leftover airplane metal Airstream trailer. 

Salt Lake City's Airstream dealership is a real gem. The very nicest people (Thanks, Mileta!) and the coolest trailers. 

http://www.intermountainairstream.com

Including Howard Hughes' trailer, which has hardly been touched since he last unfolded the nifty hide-away ironing board. 

Okay, hard to see. But there was some serious aesthetic sensibility in this trailer, and a feeling like you walked back into the 1940's!

Summer Days

I'm sure you've thought work on the Glamper has ceased. Not so! In fact, we are nearly 'complete' with our plans!

 The exterior paint weathered the winter so nicely!

 Happy details

The original owners of this camper were hunters, and took this hunting all the time. Our moose hangs with not a little intentional irony!

 Had to have a chandelier, bien sur.

 My mother just finished painting the refrigerator. We adore the results!

 Is that mirror just glamorous?!

 We spent a long time thinking about carpet. We went with super-soft astro turf. Yep! Its so fabulously kitschy.

 What does one do in a glamper, you may ask? Primarily, the twins watch movies out there several times a week. It only has a VHS player, of course. We take naps out there. We eat in the glamper, and the girls play out there every day. The camper was a $700 investment, and at the beginning we had no idea how much it would be like having a spare room in the yard! It is also a quiet, shady spot to watch the children...

 The shelves were a boring dark oak stained brown, which was easily transformed with a few applications of paint.

Lighting fixture we found at IKEA. 

 This Glamper was a project to help me through Eloise's time in the NICU. It was a perfect project, and I can't tell you how happy it makes me to have our little girl with us on such perfect summer afternoons.

Painting!

I may night have had time to blog it, but work on the Glamper continues!

new paint

With all that has been going on here at our house, you'd think that work on the Happy Glamper has been stalled. But you'd be wrong! Check out her new face lift, thanks to Moogie!

Moogie in her element. She and I made a stencil using the highly technical tool of a kitchen bowl with tape, and a cookie-cutter heart. We had to use special paint suited to painting aluminum. It certainly made the camper look cleaner, and happier.
We have also been making a lot of improvements to the interior, but that will be another post...

Prime Time

Setting up this morning - drop cloths, paint chips, and liquid sander.

I spent the morning in the hospital with my little baby in the NICU. In the meantime, my mother sanded, caulked and spackled. Then, naturally, it was time for a break:

After naptime, it was 'prime time'! We couldn't decide which was a better description, 'hair on fire' or 'tasmanian devil' to adequately capture what it was like to prime with two 4-year-olds, and a 2-year-old. But boy, did they have fun!

A little part of me died when I had to tell Amelia to tone down the action painting :).

Yes, the mess was about as big as you'd expect. But that's what bubble baths are for!

It's sparkly!

Want to guess where we are using this? Also, Amelia's reaction was pretty priceless:

http://youtu.be/YHllE9xQi4Q