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The last few days of work... frankly not very much to show for it!  Interior wall partitions. Evie did the painting of these herself.  And the exterior door and window trim, sanded and ready to paint: Then I had to figure out how to paint them, preferably without making a huge mess. This was my solution: blue taped down on a spare two-pocket folder.

Okay, so literally the last thing I blogged about here was giving birth to Evie and a few weeks ago she turned 6. Whatever. My folks got her a dollhouse (kit) for her birthday. I'm putting it together now. Seemed like a good process to record via blog. Day 1, "before": Exterior walls sanded and ready to paint. Day 1, "after": Exterior walls painted. It's slightly darker than it appears in the photo but not by much. Well, this is her  dollhouse, not mine, and she chose the colors. Day 2: Interior walls painted. I thought to tape around the edges and windows this time, after realizing too late yesterday that I was getting turquoise paint drips on the reverse side of the walls. The top floor is going to be cream; for the bottom floor, I just did one coat of the cream color as a base.  No work today due to rainstorms. Next up will be another coat on the top floor, and figuring out where exactly the border lines are between the two bottom ...