Bob and I had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year with both of our families and it was nice to not have to cram two huge meals into one day. We celebrated on Wednesday with my family and then later in the day on Thursday with the Smitka's.
Since we didn't have much to do on actual Thanksgiving day this year we decided to tackle a project that I have been scheming since we picked the baby bedding months ago. Well I did a lot of supervision and Bob did all the hard work ;) I did help with a few of the diamonds but really only the ones at eye level. It's just too hard to bend or get up off the floor lately!! A special thank you to Steve (Bob's brother) for using his awesome Autocad skills and making us a template to trace, this was a lifesaver! We traced the diamond template and then thought we would just tape them off and start painting the inside, WRONG! The tape was becoming a pain so Bob just decided it was best to free hand it. Poor Bob ended up having to paint over them several times because we traced the stencil in pencil too dark and thought it would wash off, wrong again. He had to use a little paint by number brush to cover up the pencil lines too. I don't think he ever wants to hear the word argle again, but I think he did a fabulous job and love the way it turned out. I did at one point admit that I was slightly nuts for having us attempt this by hand but he's a good sport and humors my craziness ;)
Here's a good picture of the finished project (don't worry its just one wall)-
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