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Painting done...

April 3rd, 2006 at 03:51 am

in ds1's bedroom. I woke up this morning and realized that is we did not bite the bullet and get started, we would put it off indefinitely. Since today was the last day Dh and I will both be home until next weekend, we just did it. It took all day. We painted to bottom half of the walls blue and the top white, and used chalkboard paint on one half of a wall. We also took off and repainted ALL the moulding (baseboard, ceiling, door and windows). We were quite tired tonight Smile and tomorrow we still need to put the room back together! But I think it will look very nice.
Also went bowling tonight - paid for the remaining 5 weeks, so now all we have to do is pay the sitter every week. Our team is currently in first place, but I am not getting excited yet. In all my years of bowling, I have never finished first.
My car magnet sign came back to me today - a neighbor dropped it off. But it's pretty beat up - it would look pretty unprofessional on my car. Sigh. I hate wasting money.
I am getting ready to send out the third coupon train that I am attempting to start in my area. The first two have not made it back to me. This is getting pretty discouraging, but I have "purged" a few people off the list who seem to be holding things up, so I am really hoping this will work out. I am going to drop this one off in person to avoid those postage charges. Ouch! Who knew coupons weighed so much??

3 Responses to “Painting done...”

  1. KarenSue Says:
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    LOL I just posted about finishing the bathroom, and saw that you spent today painting too! Your DS's room sounds like it looks really nice. My DD has chalkboard paint on her wall too and she loves it. Of course, she is nearly 17, but she and her friends have a blast drawing pictures and writing messages to each other.

    I'm very impressed that you did all of the trim today. I put that off for another day - I think I'll do the trim and door later this weeks when I have time.

    Good job! (Pats you on your weary shoulders)

  2. Emma Says:
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    What's this coupon train your working on? Can you elaborate?

  3. jodi_m Says:
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    Karen Sue- Thanks for the pat! I will fess up on the moulding though. Yes, there were about 30 pieces, but they are cheap plastic. I did one swipe of white paint on each one. That's all! I was done in about a half hour. But they look SO much better. The alternative was to buy all new wood moulding to the tune of $200 - so this was definitely the better choice, at least for now. I will post some pics of the room after it's put back together.

    Emma - I posted on my local Freecycle.org to ask for people who would be interested in exchanging coupons. When I had enough people (6 or 7), I sent all my coupons to the first person - then they take what they want, add their leftover coupons, and send them on to the next name. Eventually it SHOULD get back to me, although it hasn't yet. I think some people do them also on this forum, although I was only interested in doing it locally due to the turnaround time.

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