Glue, Baby, Gone by Joanna Campbell Slan

Author:Joanna Campbell Slan [Slan, Joanna Campbell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781545350881
Publisher: Spot On Publishing
Published: 2016-05-06T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

The guest bedroom at the Detweiler house reflected the taste of Leighton Haversham’s mother, because she had always hoped to have a daughter. Consequently, she’d appointed the room in grand style with a white French provincial four-poster bed, matching dresser, and make-up table. She’d chosen pink and green and white as the colors. The unabashedly feminine decorating scheme took me back to my teenage years.

After escorting me to my room, Kiki did a slow circle, taking in the room’s ambience, as if this was all new to her. “I rarely come in here. Brawny keeps all this clean and ready for guests. But this? This decorating scheme definitely has to go. Sorry about how juvenile it looks. All you need is a stack of Barbara Cartland romance novels and you’re all set.”

“I actually love Barbara Cartland novels.” I ran my hand over the curved footboard. “I wish my friend Skye Blue was here with us. She’d have this transformed in nothing flat.”

“By hauling it to Goodwill?”

“No.” I sat on the mattress and pulled away a pillow so I could get a better look at the headboard. “She would saw off these posts. That would give you a more modern silhouette. Then she would stretch thick foam over the headboard and staple it down on the wrong side. With a glue gun, she’d cover the foam. Finally, she’d attach nail head trim or a thick braided ribbon.”

Kiki sat down next to me. “You sound pretty confident. I remember a Cara Mia Delgatto who didn’t consider herself a crafter.”

“Amazing what you can do when your back is up against the wall. At first, I left all the crafting to Skye. But that didn’t work, because she’s full-time at the deli across the street. I needed to get up to speed fast because I hadn’t lined up vendors—and I needed to fill my store with merchandise. Out of necessity, I picked up a paint brush and started stenciling furniture. I’ve never looked back.”

“What colors would you use?” Kiki cocked her head and studied the fussy pink room with its rosebud wallpaper. The place was cloyingly sweet.

“Eggplant, tan, and aqua.”

“You’re kidding.”

“Nope. The pink and green are nice, I guess, but I’d make this wall behind the bed a dark eggplant. I’d paint tan and cream stripes on the other three walls. For an accent, I’d use aqua pillows, an aqua comforter, and I’d spray paint the base of this lamp aqua, too. Then I’d recover that stuffed chair in tan and cream. I’d also replace this ugly light fixture with a small chandelier. Since that’s bound to leave a big hole in the ceiling, I’d hide it by gluing fake flowers in a circle, trimming the circle with a thick flat braid, and then spray painting all that cream to match the ceiling. No, wait. I’d cut the flowers out of thick cardstock. I’d cover them with Elmer’s Wood Putty to make them 3-D, and then I’d glue them to a cardstock oval. Trim that out.

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