Adventures in painting

As I think I mentioned before, Brent and I decided it would be a great idea to paint some stripes below the chair railing in the baby room. Neither of us had ever painted stripes before, but we figured, why not? We even took a piece of the bedding to make sure the paint we chose was an exact match. Well...

I promise we are not going with a clown or circus theme. Here's how it turned out:

We hate it!! Unfortunately it didn't turn out at all like we thought it would. Looking back we should have made the stripes all the same width, but there is no way we were about to try and redo this mess. So, Brent painted a primer over it and we are going back to Lowe's again to get a color a few shades darker than the tan so we can be done with it - and so our baby won't be frightened when he sees his room!

On a prettier note, our front yard looks really nice right now with all the flowers that have bloomed! Brent has planted them over the last few years and they return every spring. I think that means they are perineals...or annuals? :) Something like that!