Goes On Purple Dries White!

The ceilings weren't in total need of being painting however, since we are painting the walls we figured that that we would go ahead and paint the ceilings while we were at it. Clayton and I picked up three gallons of Valspar ceiling paint that painted on purple and but dried white. We thought that this would be a good idea so that we could see where the paint was going. We found out the level of difficulty of judging where you've painted to be pretty high when trying to paint his parent's living room ceiling back when we remodeled their house for their Christmas 2010 present.

Patrick offered to come and help paint! WHAT A BLESSING THIS WAS!! Jaclyn, Patrick's girlfriend came too and I had to agree with Clayton, who mentioned the wonderful job she did taping the plastic drop cloth down, because she did. We (I say we even though I didn't paint; I'm too short for the ceiling) got a lot accomplished with painting the first coat on the three bedrooms and the living room. The ceiling took the paint in like a dry sponge does to water (therefore, the 2nd coat, which Clayton was trying to avoid because he loves painting that much, is totally inevitable)! If you've ever painted alone, then you know it's on the same "fun level" as sitting there watching it dry once you're finished (no fun AT ALL)! It was a lot more enjoyable to have Patrick and Jaclyn there to help Clayton and I even though some "accidents" happened; I think that Patrick went home with more paint on him than the ceiling did! Jaclyn thought that it was funny to take the paint brush and paint him (on total accident)! Coincidental, at the very least, given our total conversation before hand consisted of someone, if not everyone, would end the night with paint on them...

While the boys were painting, Jaclyn and I decided to paint the flowerpots that Clayton and I picked up at the Waddy Dump(Free)! A couple of Saturdays ago Clayton and I took a load of renovating trash to the dump and while we were pulling out he just so happened to glance over at the concrete pile and noticed two flowerpots. From the view of the truck they seemed to be in good enough shape to stand up and with some paint would look great. We both got out of the truck to pick up the matching flowerpots and put them into the bed of the truck. For whatever reason free stuff always seems to be better!!

With a pint of paint that Patti(Clayton's mom) bought while she was at Lowe's Jaclyn and I took the two pots in the grass and painted them and a lil bit of the grass :-). When we were finished they looked awesome!

Patrick and Jaclyn's help not only got things accomplished while having fun it was also GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!