Wednesday, February 19, 2014

The Writing on the Wall

Well, there's no writing on the wall yet. The paint still has to cure a little. But! We have two enormous chalkboards!

Doug suggested I use the laser level to put up the lines...it was a good suggestion. See how straight they are?


Sophie and Jack helped me tape the hallway. Surprisingly, they were a lot of help. Sophie kept pushing down the tape that popped up - mostly on the baseboard - and Jack industriously covered the heating register. Then they posed for pictures to show how proud they were of their work.


They were a little disappointed that they couldn't help paint. The paint had numerous warnings though: no contact with skin. No contact with eyes (as if I am going to use this stuff as eye drops, right?). Don't inhale the fumes.

Yikes! So I opened the windows - thankfully, it wasn't too cold this weekend - and painted with the smaller kids upstairs. The first coat didn't look too great, to be honest. There were "holidays" (places where the paint didn't cover completely) all over the place. If I tried to go over it, the paint would smear even worse. So, I left it, hoping that the second coat would go much better.

And it DID! No, I'm not excited at all. The second coat really smoothed things out.

If you look close, it looks like someone has scratched the surface...
it's just fingerprints. Beware, they show up really well.

Since I had so much help with the tape, my lines even turned out really well. Usually I have some bleeding underneath the tape, but apparently three-year-olds are the solution to that problem.


Tomorrow, we can get out the chalk. I can hardly wait.

Two Gi-normous Chalk Boards. Woot!

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