An Update on Miss Abby

Happy Tuesday!!!

Miss Abby the RV has been going through quite the transformation in the past few days, so I thought you might like a peek!

First of all, we have a name update for you. My friend Amber, whose incredible artistic talents I've shared with you before, is making an art piece for us to hang inside Abby. We decided that we will always call our home-on-wheels the "Shafferland Shuttle." It's a nod, of course, to our weekly post The Shafferland Shuffle. Currently, our shuttle is named Abby. If, years down the road, we change to a different RV, we'll name it, too, but they'll all be in the fleet of Shafferland Shuttles. So somehow she's going to work that into her art, though we still have to figure out how it all works. 

So in our Shafferland Shuttle named Abby, here are the most recent updates!

The last time I devoted a post to our work on Abby, we had just completed demo day! You can read in that link all the things we did that day, but let's just say at the end of it, she was pretty sad and empty looking.

Ryan carefully labeled all the cabinet doors and drawers and pulled them out for painting. This is a task we can do whenever we have time - and we borrowed a corner of the storage room in the basement to use for our workshop. On some of the colder days over the last couple of weeks, he's worked on priming and painting them, and they look so sharp!

But then Indiana was blessed with about a week of GORGEOUS fall weather. We're talking t-shirts and sunglasses all the way. So we put aside the indoor painting project in favor of painting the pieces that we couldn't remove from the RV. 

We started by priming all the cabinets, and that took a couple of days. There are a lot of cabinets!

And then we got to move to regular painting. Priming is always so discouraging, because no matter how slow and careful we are, it always looks like a 2 year old painted it. Regular paint is so much more fulfilling. 

We were able to accomplish the bulk of that on our weekend, and it was such a blessing. The weather was perfect, we were able to put in long hours out there together, and it was so much fun! 

Then for the last couple of days, Ryan used his down-time to work out there again - this time painting the walls. We are painting them sort of a beachy blue. Loved how they turned out!

We decided to paint the refrigerator/freezer and one small panel with black chalkboard paint so we can write love notes and grocery lists and other such fun. :) 

Because of Ryan's hard work, we were able to knock out all the painting inside the RV before the cold weather arrives - which is supposed to be tomorrow, I believe. Thanks, Ryan, for working so diligently! Here are some peeks at Abby in her current state:

We love how she's shaping up!! Of course there is still much to do, but she's looking pretty! We can't wait to see how she turns out when she's all done!