Goo Gone?

Thanks so much for all of your sweet comments about the surprise makeovers.

It was a blast and I can hardly wait to see their faces.

Keeping secrets is so hard!

Does anyone else have that problem?

(On Rachel's 2nd Christmas, Santa came on December 2nd 'cause this momma could not wait!)

Anyway, ya'll were sweet to comment about my hand painting so

I thought I would share my secret.

My inspiration for the painting came from an amazing blogger named Susie at Bienvenue.

Wow is she talented!

I started off with poster board, for Hannah's green circle

and then printed off words from my computer.

I used Microsoft Publisher to find the fonts that I liked

and then I just printed them out and cut them out.

Here is the blank wall that is just begging for some color:

And here is the start of the green circle. I used those cheap sponge brushes and then quickly changed to one of my favorite wide, flat paint brushes that I use for decorative painting.

My paint is that good old craft paint from Michaels or Hobby Lobby.





Then I used tracing paper to transfer the fonts (which didn't work as well as I had hoped...I free-handed a lot of this and all of the words on the girls' bathroom walls).

Notice anything in the above picture?

I thought I would freehand a little swirl underneath the picture....and that's when it all went wrong! The sides didn't match, so I just wiped the wet paint with a cloth and water because the paint was wet and it has always worked before. NOooooo not this time. Hello smeared paint!

What to do? I grabbed Goo Gone and hoped for a cure.

Goo Gone, you did disappoint. Here is the wall after Goo Gone:

Oh, yes that's much better! Not! I thought I would just cover it up with a poster...and then I thought again. I remembered an old can of paint in the attic that was left over from when we painted her room. Mr. Incredible was sure that a paint can that is 9 years old will not be usable but I persuaded him to try it. We shook the daylights out of that can and guess what??? It worked. Woo hoo!


Whew! That's better. Have a great weekend!

Joyfully,

Kristi