I guess the groundhog lied, didn’t he? No early spring yet! Last night we got more snow and ice around here. Not sure how much, but it looks like a couple of inches at least. Schools are closed again, and the Arsenal delayed its opening by 2 hours. Yay for Travis getting to sleep late! It’s not supposed to warm up very much today, but I hope it will melt before I have to go to work tomorrow.
Last weekend, we worked over at our house pretty much all Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday afternoon. We got the painting in the kitchen finished up, so that’s good. Mom came up Saturday afternoon, and she helped me decide on the rest of the colors for the other rooms, so that was huge progress. Thanks, Mom! :) Our living room furniture got delivered, and we love it. We might be doing things backwards to be painting the living room AFTER the furniture is in there, but at least we were able to pick out a color that matches well. Saturday night, we started painting the dining room. It’s going to be a really pretty beige color. I didn’t want it to be anything too dark since the room doesn’t have any windows. We did the cut-in a second time on Sunday afternoon, and Travis rolled the walls once Monday night. We’re hoping to roll them a second time tonight, and then the dining room will be pretty much complete! Next up is the living room and foyer….that’s gonna take a while…
This weekend, we’re heading to my parents’ house to celebrate Jenn’s birthday. Her birthday isn’t actually until next week, but we’ll celebrate a little bit early I guess. I picked out her birthday present yesterday, so hopefully she’ll like it :)
Today sounds like it’s going to be a good day to stay inside. I may head to the gym this afternoon when it warms up a little, but other than that, I’m going to just stay here. Plenty to do without getting out! :)
Scratch that…we just found out the Arsenal is closed today. Travis gets a long weekend! I guess we may go over to our house (if we can get there) and do some extra painting :)
Yipee!! :)
2 replies on “Go away, snow!”
On all these HGTV shows we've been watching, I noticed how they were painting the trim without any masking tape and wondered how that would turn out. I didn't know it was called "cutting in" until I saw it in your post and googled it :) How hard was that to do? I'm sure it saves a ton of time, but I can see myself slipping up and putting a nice glob of paint where it shouldn't be.
Well, we actually taped off most of the trim before we painted the walls. We haven't tackled painting the trim itself yet. It's a good bit easier to paint with tape on, but the trick is getting the tape straight and right on the edge. If you're careful and have a steady hand, you could probably do without the tape though!