We panted Riglee’s wall orange and were going to put brown spots on it. I decided that I wanted to do vertical stripes instead. So my sweet husband came home at lunch time and helped me make chalk lines.
I measured the wall and then had to figure out how many stripes I wanted. I could either have eight 16 inch stripes or sixteen 8 inch stripes. I decided on the later.
I put tape in the stripes that I wasn’t going to paint.
Then I taped it off. It took me about an hour and I got lots of Cardio in going up and down the step-stool!
After taping it off, I painted over the edged of the paint with the wall color. It seal the tape so that the new color won’t bleed underneath it.
*NOTE* make sure you wipe off the chalk line before doing this!
It took me a little while to paint all the stripes, but we had it done that evening. I painted 2 coats with a paint brush, and then husband painted a final coat with a paint roller.
We bought cardboard 3-d letters at Hobby Lobby to spell out Riglee’s name to hang on the wall.
It took forever to wrap all 6 letters (just over two movies!) Husband was a trooper and helped me get them done.
Then I added embellishments.
I was going to hang them with ribbon, but I thought the “L” might look funny, so we just hung them on the wall with nails.
Parker wanted to be in the pictures, I finally gave in!
We have a few more things to do before Riglee’s room is done, hopefully we will get them done soon so that we will have at least one room in the house totally decorated!!
