Stars and Moons

Whoa, lots of pictures in those last two posts. Love having a digital camera. Now I am move on to today...

Woke up EARLY because the man from Empire was coming at 9. He got here, we looked at samples and stuff. The were more than Home Depot, but competitive with everyone else Meg had called. Home Depot wouldn't be able to install the carpet until three weeks. Empire will be installing the carpet on Friday, so we went with them.

Right after he left, we began taping areas for the darker blue squares. Meggie helped me with this, and we got it done quickly. I then went through and painted all of the dark blue squares. Below, I am painting the dark blue squares.


We chilled for a while, basically waiting for the paint to dry so we could do a 2nd coat. During this time, I also finally got around to fixing the back door screen that Max walked through a few months ago. This would be the 2nd time I've fixed the screen for the same reason. You'd think he'd (I mean we'd) learn!

Before starting the 2nd coat, we discovered a problem. After pulling back some of the tape, we realized that the darker blue paint had bled under the lighter, leaving a very jagged edge when we removed the tape. Meg came up with the idea of moving the tape over a little bit and then repainting the squares. So, we moved each piece of tape over, about a 1/16 an inch, then repainted the squares, very promptly removing the tape before any more seepage could occur. We also removed the long horizontal tape, and it looked really nice.

Next, I made some pasta salad for dinner, and then we took a swim for a while to cool off. Had burgers for dinner, and then moved on to stenciling the stars and moons. Meg and I thought that it would be too busy to do a moon/star on every block, so we ended up only doing it on the dark blocks. The stenciling was a big pain in the neck, and basically created very sloppy looking stars and moons. Meg took little paint brushes, and touched everything up to reshape it. It looks really nice now. You can see the whole room in this post, as well as the step by step progress in this post. Here is a close-up of the completed border.



Meg and I are both dead tired, having gotten up early, and accomplishing a lot today, so off to bed I go (hey, it's only 10:30!)