One of the perks of teaching is having summertime to do all those projects that pile up. I start back to work on Monday (even though I've had meetings here and there all summer), so I decided to tackle a few of those projects.
We have these nooks/niches in our house that the previous owner had painted brown. As pretty as they are, brown isn't really our color. What is? you ask...maroon of course!!! Maroon is a tough color to paint, it starts out really pink, but I love how it turned out!! Here's the best part of the painting project though...

Alli's happy face (and sleepy face because this was first thing this morning)