So. Yeah, what did you do over the weekend?
Oh yeah? Huh.
Me?
Bill and I painted our front porch. The. entire. thing. Floor to ceiling. Yes, the floor and the ceiling and the walls AND all 11, 8-paned windows. Yes, our porch has 11, 8-paned windows and we painted them all.
No, I don't have pictures because I was too busy painting.
I guess I should say I started painting them but Bill finished the job to the best of his ability, while I did all the cutting-in work and painting of the window sills and trim. Bill's painting skills are fine ... not great, not bad, just fine. The only thing that saved us from having to do hours of scraping was Bill's quest to put as little paint as necessary on the windows and this genius invention.
They are corner tape stickers and they worked great. Trying to tape all those flippin' corners is a pain in the buttocks, but these little beauties did the trick. They are kind of expensive at just under $5 a roll and a roll only includes 60 pieces which wasn't nearly enough ... we have 352 corners to paint.352! Gah.
Luckily, we were able to reuse them over and over again ... because we're cheap like that.
So yeah, we spend half of the day Saturday painting (the morning was dedicated to Margaret's piano festival — she did awesome, thankyouverymuch) and All. Day. Long. Sunday. I finished painting the floor of the porch somewhere around 6:30 p.m. when it was too dark to really see what I was doing. But I was able to figure out how to not paint myself into a corner — literally.
And now it's done (for the most part).
We got rid of a bunch of crap we kept piled out there. It's amazing how WT we are and are now looking for a nice wide chaise lounge to put out there so I'll have yet another place to lie down.
Lying down rocks. Not painting rocks, too.
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Okay I'm supposed to be doing some email at night but I'm blog hopping instead. Had to laugh b/c we're painting a lot these days too. That blue tape is all around our house and we find sales on the blue tape and buy it up. Little did we realize when we bought this house that we'd end up repainting the entire inside. Well, no, we knew we'd repaint the whole thing but I had grand ideas that it would all be done by now. Yeah right! I keep figuring out new tricks to make it go faster. Of course by the time we get this down, we'll be all done. Either that or we'll have to paint the outside. p.s. that's a heck of a lot of window panes.
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