Creating Beauty in Two Rooms

 We tackled painting two rooms — Paloma's room and the little girls' rooms.

We painted the walls (many hands helped with the painting and clean-up) and then turned our amazing artists loose.

In the little girls' room, we asked them what they wanted on the walls and came up with some beautiful designs.

Another project was reinforcing a rickety set of shelves — we took all the clothes off, folded them, and then put them back when the shelves were done.

In the little girls room, they were pulling a piece of wood across when they wanted privacy in the bathroom.

We ended up installing some beautiful shower curtains that provide privacy and added color to the new room.

Penny, All Saints' Director of Children's Ministry, led the painting project. One of Penny's many gifts is her ability to involve everyone in the project! In addition, she is able to identify artistic gifts and worked with the young artists on our team to create the beautiful paintings on the freshly painted walls.

Jaime, a first-time Mexico Mission trip member, is a accomplished artist. He created a mouse and a beautiful flower on the ceiling right over the bed of one of the girls who is disabled and spends much of the time on her back.

 Paloma is a wonderful artist, too. She designed and painted all the cars on one end of her room.

 Brenda painting a butterfly on the wall of her room.

 Jaime working on the mouse.

Many hands helped get all the initial painting done.

Mitchel is an budding artist in addition to being a great soccer player. He worked on a drawing in the little girls' room.

 In addition to the painting, the work crew worked on repairing ceiling fans and toilets in the rooms.

Melanie working on the butterflies located on the wall entering the little girls' room.

Emily (left) and Renee (below) painting flowers.

Jaime's finished mouse drawing and flower/butterfly drawing which is on the ceiling.

Paloma working on the window frames.



Marni (below) is an art teacher and brought her many talents to the painting project.

Elle helped with the butterfly wall.

Mitchel sketching his drawing on the wall and standing beside his finished painting (below).

Penny created a tree around the doorway.















The girls requested a unicorn on the walls and Marni created one for them!

The two rooms are finished and are both beautiful! Thanks to all who helped paint, draw, repair, and clean up.