The easiest way to I've found to make your paint lines straight..

How to Make Your Paint Lines Straight

Painting is something that can be done without having a ton of skill and practice, but the trickiest part of painting is keeping your lines straight along the ceiling. I’ve done a lot of painting and tried a lot of different techniques for edging. It takes a lot of practice to be able to freehand straight lines, so I don’t recommend free-handing it if you are an inexperienced painter . You can tape it off, but it is a tedious process that I loathe, so I try to avoid it at all costs. Besides, even after you’ve gone to all that effort, sometimes the paint will still bleed under the tape anyway, or worse, when you take the tape off, chips of paint might come off with it.  That is aggravating to say the least.  I have tried using the Sure Line Paint Edger tool and it works okay at first, but it gets gunked up fast and the lines stop being straight.  So, when a friend taught me this easy technique to make my paint lines straight I was thrilled!  Anyone can do this and get great results.

The easiest way to I've found to make your paint lines straight.

You will need a 10 or 12 inch drywall knife like this, and a short roller like this with a 4 or 6 inch roller cover like this. Do not use a sponge roller cover (they tear and don’t cover well) or a really thick roller cover (more likely to give you rougher edges.) The one I’ve linked to is the best.  It needs to have the plastic piece on the end to have the desired effect. You can get them online or at your local home improvement store.

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Infertility and Miscarriage can be devastating. This is a very sensitive topic. I know…because I’ve been there. I went through so many pregnancy tests, I started just buying them in bulk. So many times in my early married life, I wondered if my dreams of motherhood would ever come true.

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Growing up, I was the oldest of 8. One could say, I was born to be a mother. I helped raise my siblings after all, didn’t I? My own mother must have done a pretty good job, because all I ever wanted to be in life was a mom. I loved taking care of babies.

When I went to college, it was a no brainer, my major was early childhood. I became a preschool teacher when I was 18 and loved it. When I was 24, I married my best friend. I felt like life just couldn’t get any better…

Whenever my husband sees this picture he says, “That couple had no clue what they were in for!” He was right!

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Although we agreed to wait a year before we had any kids, we ended up changing our mind a month after we were married and took the plunge! Two months later I was pregnant and ecstatic! We couldn’t wait to tell EVERYONE!

Thoughts of finally having a baby of my own to cherish filled my mind every second of the day. At 8 weeks, my worst nightmare happened and I miscarried. It was extremely painful both physically and emotionally. I went to my doctor who could only say that she was sorry but that it was completely normal. Anyone who’s been through a miscarriage knows that it does not feel ‘completely normal.’