If I'm ever tempted to try something crafty anytime soon please someone remind me to never think I am crafty or that I should even try crafty things anytime in the future. Becky homecky I am not. So I decided that it was time to redo S's room. The room he has been in was our storage room and we got the kids so quick that we never did anything to it and it was starting to depress me. So I decided as much as S loves sports that a sports theme room would be perfect, so of course I turned to Pinterest. See pics below, my inspiration.
I saw this baseball dresser on Pinterest and thought, perfect! So I bought an old dresser and today I set to work. I had taped off the part for the seams (is that what they're called?) and set to painting. I started off using spray paint, umm can we say streaky and looking like tie dye? So I went and got a roller to even things out. Of course I pick a ruined roller that somehow made the drawer bumpy and awful looking. So I decided to leave the drawer alone Raph could help me fix it later. I moved on to the next drawers and decided to spray paint and then use a brush with other white paint over the spray paint. Worked good on the next drawer except I didn't let the spray paint dry first so again, clumpy. After a very frustrated call to husband I decided to call it quits and he will help me with it later.
To top it all off all three boys were outside playing which I thought would make it very easy to get this done because they love playing outside. Well S decided to make this a frustrate mommy day and came into the garage over and over to ask me any question he could think of, throw fits and refused to stay away from the wet dresser. So mommy blew a fuse and yelled and then apologized and prayed that the rest of the day would go better and her anger would stay in check. We all moved inside and things didn't get any better. All the kids continued to throw fits and after lunch I quick put them to bed and decided to move on to the bedroom.
First off we had painted three of S's walls a pretty bright blue. The fourth wall was going to be that snazzy football pictured. Easy right? Well I am miss impatient and husband has been super busy at work and tired when he gets home and he helped me do the other three walls the other night so I decided to do the football wall by myself. First off I don't think I've ever had to cut before (that is what it's called right? going around the edges?), husband always does that. So I started off doing that and let's just say it was not up to par. So, frustrated again I got down from the chair I was standing on and felt my foot hit something. I could have cried. Here I had knocked over the paint and before I got to it half of the can had spilled onto the sheet. Have you ever seen half a can of paint spilled? It is a mess!! It was already starting to go through the sheet onto the carpet so I quick rolled the sheet up, wiped up the paint on the floor and headed down to the laundry room to rinse out the sheet. Have you ever tried to rinse half a can of paint out of a sheet? Again, a mess! I had to ring that sheet out over and over and over and thought I finally had most of it out. Brown paint was pretty much all over my laundry room and the sheet dripped brown as I took it outside to hang it up praying that it would just dry. My feet were brown, my hands were brown, the floor was brown.
I think next time I redo a room I will paint all four walls the same color and make sure Raph is there to help me. And Ikea seems like a good place to get simple furniture instead of trying to be crafty. I'm still not sure what's going to happen to that wall or that dresser. For now I will sit on the couch and not touch anything to do with paint, furniture, or walls.
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