Painting

June 27, 2011 by Andrea · 7 Comments
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I procrastinate very well when it comes to painting rooms. I have talked about wanting to paint the kitchen for well over a year. Recently, though, I became inspired. First, I painted the downstairs bathroom a fresh coat of yellow. It had started looking dingy to me. Then……I started the kitchen! I began with the ceiling. I sprayed and scraped off the gross popcorn that some lovely person had sprayed up there long ago. After that I primed it and took a break. The boys and I were picnicking in the mess the next day and I happened to look up and see that the primer was cracking along the places that had mud (spackle) on wallboards. I climbed up, picked at it, and the primer pulled off! I couldn’t believe it. Talking with the man at ACE Hardware, he thought that when the mud was put up that it was coated with an oil based sealant. I was using an acrylic primer. So….. I had to scrape off all the primer that was over the mud, which was 1/4 to 1/3 of the ceiling, and then sand to get below that coating. THEN, I primed again and held my breath. It worked that time. After taking a day’s break, I painted two coats of ceiling paint and thought that everyone should only eat while lying on the floor and looking up. Ben thought I should paint the walls anyway since I had patched and primed them, so I got up my nerve and started that. It took f.o.r.e.v.e.r to go around all the windows and corners, but I finally did finish. I guess now you don’t have to eat while lying on the floor.

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Family Photo

June 9, 2011 by Andrea · 8 Comments
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Our church is getting its directory updated. We missed the last update, so in the one before it, Grayson is about 18 months old. It is time for an update! A member of our church has a business who does just this sort of thing called re:Member. We were pleased with the very talented and silly cameraman who got such a great smile out of Grayson.