Ok...maybe its not, but it comes close in my world now. You would think that all of the little painting kinks would have been taken care of when we painted our kitchen 3 times...but oh no. Thats not true. I had this really neat idea for our powder room and I am trying to do this denim technique in there. It is hard to blend the seams and make them look good and not obvious. So the first wall I tackled last night, I screwed up big time. The other 3 turned out awesome. They look just like what I had pictured. So I kept trying to touch up the darker overlap spots on my first wall. No dice. It looked horrible. So for some crazy reason this morning... I decide that 5:30 is a good time to get up and start my day. I walk into the bathroom and get reminded of my rotten paint job. I am bound and determined to fix this wall before Jake gets home so I can surprise him and have it fixed and done. I get out the painters tape and the white paint. Yay...its a brand new start. One plain old white wall. I let it dry and go at it with my blue glaze. I start rolling the glaze and low and behold...it is not sticking in the bottom left hand corner. The rest of the wall is taking the glaze perfectly. I ignore it because there was enough there to make it work. When I get done, it is so light compared to the rest of the walls that I can't leave it or it would have looked really bad. So I let that coat dry and do a second coat like I did on the other 3 walls. that spot is still lighter and not dry like the rest of the wall was. So as I roll the glaze over it, I am actaully pulling up the stuff that I had already painted. I am removing paint. Damn. This isnt what I was going for. So since the rest of the wall looked ok...I left it and touched up this spot 3 more times. I guess it is bearable...but you can tell it is different. My eye is drawn to it everytime I go in there. Maybe when we do the bottom half, it will distract your eye away from that spot. I really like to paint- now if only I were good at it. (Kind of like sewing, I want to make this stuff, but cant thread that thing. ) Someday, I will find something I am good at!!!!!
We need pictures, girly! PICTURES. At least you don't let these little setbacks get you down...most people (ok, maybe just me) would have thrown in the towel by now...but not you, you just keep going and staying upbeat!
ReplyDeleteI will post some pictures as soon as I get the other color done. I cant go showing half done painting...it would look horrible :) You could just come over and see it though!!! Anyways... I am too lazy to get up and find where I put the camera, take a picture or 2, download them to my files, upload them to vox and then put them in a post. How lazy am I?? hahahaha. It's not like any of that is hard to do...just tedious :)
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