Me Momma's Mural Making Magic

Hi.

I've been working on a play/movie for the cub scouts.  It's called How Baloo Taught Mowgli the Law of the Pack (a.k.a. The Jungle Book).  My mom helped make a mural for a back drop.  We will also be using it for the annual school carnival in April.  I asked the other parents and teachers if the theme for the carnival could please be 'jungle' since we are making jungly props for the play (they said yes).  It will save me a ton of work and time if they are both the same theme.  2 birds, one stone. 

Here is what I asked my mom to paint the mural on:

a bunch of weathered doors from the old ranch house.

Bring in the "oops" paint and leftovers from other projects:

mmm...that's a pretty sight.

Then give an artist some inspirational music 

and the freedom to let her do what she wants 

and 

let 

her 

go.

First you get this:

then this:

(The picture taped to the door in the above picture is of a mural that you can buy from Target.com for $83.  It was our "plan".  My mom did it like EXACTLY the same in probably 5 hours (she calls it 'rough' since she was trying to hurry).  She is amazing.  I can't believe her color matching ability, too.)

then this:

and then this:

Hi.  That's pretty dang awesome, Momma.

Our kids ask, "Can we go to The Jungle?"

They like to play with their stuffed animals in front of it.  Mom painted chimps and gibbons and a tiger and an elephant and tropical birds and a leopard in there that the stuffed animals talk to.  I have jungle sounds on my computer that they want me to play while they play.   

My little niece, Olivia, came up with my mom.  She and Jiles and Zoe hung out.  They all got along great.  Jiles called her, "Ee-Uh."

Jiles posed himself with his arm around Olivia.  Hahaha.  He's too cool to smile, by the way.

Thanks, Sary Mue, for painting us The Jungle!

You are muy talented!

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