Leapin' Lizards!...

While out working and visiting businesses, Hubby came across a "family entertainment center" being built out of an old indoor go-cart speedway. The woman who owns it is trying to keep her cost down and so she's doing everything herself to get it ready, including painting murals in several "party" rooms (and she has no painting experience herself). She's expecting to open in December and therefore is REALLY crunched on time, so Hubby worked out a deal with her that I will help her paint the murals and in exchange she will let me put some of my artwork on display.

In the room I'm working on right now, they were putting this ocean wallpaper scene on the wall. It was only halfway up, so I finished laying the wallpaper (Mom would be proud that I remembered how to do wallpaper!)

After that, I am now painting another wall in the room to match the underwater scene. Here's where I was getting started on the background:

And here's where I was at with it yesterday after about 4 days of working on it:

By the way, no I've never painted a mural before, this is my first one which is another reason I'm doing it for free. (FYI, muralist prices are often about $12 sq/ft from what I've seen.) But who knows, maybe some of the rich parents taking their kids to parties at this place will be interested in having murals painted in their homes, lol.

One more thing, the owner woman's husband came to the place the other day, and it turns out it's a guy I grew up with who lived two houses down from me all through school. I'll have to take our 2nd grade class photo to show her, hahaha. Boy it's a small world, isn't it? You never know where you're going to run into someone.