A Phenomenal Painting Party Project!!

Okay so we have painted the rooms of Abba House!!! It was a lot of fun and a lot more work than we thought it was going to be but from the smiling and appreciative faces of all the kids, well worth all the hard work!!

First off, even though Stacie said that she had painted before, the only thing she has ever painted was a piece of pottery...That's right she had no idea how to paint...but it was her idea to paint the rooms at Abba. AmyRose, on the other hand, had painted several houses so Stacie thought that with AmyRose experience and Stacie's confidence, that they could get it done in no time.

The walls are lime stone. So we couldn't just start painting like we thought in the first place. We had to sandpaper all the walls which took forever because we were given a 6"by6" piece of sandpaper to use. The limestone was going everywhere and making it difficult to breathe and see. But after 5 hours of sanding, we were able to apply the undercoat. We applied the undercoat and then left for it to dry. The next day we went to paint. We chose light blue for the rooms and as we were applying it, we laid down newspaper for it to drip onto that way it wouldn't get everywhere. Well they kids kept walking on the newspaper and trailing little blue footprints everywhere, so we trashed the newspaper and now have light blue cement floors as well as walls. :-)

A two day project has now turned into a two week project...but this is Africa. You can never get anything done in what we would think and efficient amount of time...

Which leads me to the next blog...