Courtney Scrabeck

What will get me to type on the blog again? A holiday. A fertility holiday. Eggs and bunnies. And spring break and a clean backyard.

Saturday morning before Easter the boys set about coloring their eggs. Out of 24 eggs, about half remained unbroken and were beautifully dyed and stickered. As were my hands. And all the paper towels. Beckett hands remained dyed a sickly blue, which he loved because zombies.

Easter morning Uncle Bunny and Aunt Mimi stopped by! They were in town because their web series Dark Pool was nominated for an award! Here they are all hunting for eggs!

Hartwell looking like the teenager he acts like:

Beckett looking his age:

And the backyard finally cleaned up for company. We should probably have people over more often, it's the only reason we clean our house anymore.

And for the big finish...the Easter bunny brought the boys a mentos/diet coke geyser dispenser holder thing...

Pretty sure it was their favorite thing ever! Mostly because the Easter Bunny may have just watched a Colbert Report episode with the anti-sugar pediatrician and had very little candy for the kids. It was mostly small change and toys...

At that point, just watching sugar is exciting!

Doesn't this window scream for shutters?! We have big plans for shutters, but until that time, I thought I'd give them a little oomph. So I added a little trompe l'oeil border.

Can you even tell? I think it looks much better. Has more weight.

I just taped a border using a piece of the same tape as a template. First I taped around the trim, keeping the tape right up against the original trim. (I made you an example and photographed it in terrible lighting)!

Once that was pressed into place, I taped around the tape.

When that was pressed into place, I removed the first piece of tape and I was left with a 2" border.

Does that make any sense? It's a lot easier than using a level and measuring tape and pencils...If you've learned anything from me, it's that I'm lazy.

Before I painted the aqua, I first did a coat of the house color to seal the edges of the tape. Because the stucco is so bumpy, it's hard to get a perfect line.When the brown layer dried, I painted the aqua over that. You can kind of see in the pic below...

See? Nice clean line! Only a few spots I had to fix! And you can also see how I'm faking the trim. It looks a little better from a distance. Who looks at houses up close anyway?!