Makeover: Phase 2

I have seen on blogland a faux crown molding effect and wanted to give it a try, with a twist.  I have always wanted to decorate my girls' room with scripture.  I felt this way before I even had children.  I didn't do anything with their current room because when we moved in they were just babies and well, never did something until now.  Here it is....

Scott and I marked off the area from the top of the room in which I wanted the effect to take place.  I bought dry erase paint (Idea Paint) and followed the directions to the T, starting with Kilz2 primer, a light sanding, and then coating with the dry erase paint.  It was very fumey.  It had to cure for 7 days.  Scott and I then worked together to figure out how to cut the quarter round to trim it out.  We started on a Friday night at like midnight.  Yeah...my thoughts exactly.  However, when your honey works second shift you try to make the best of his awake time.  We were soooo flustered as I was googling and YouTubing for directions and he just kept practicing cuts in the garage.  He finally told me he was giving up and that was that.  As I fell asleep that night, well early morning, I kept replaying in my mind what we might have been doing wrong.  When I woke up later that same morning (ha!) I was thinking again and pretty sure I had figured it out.  Scott woke up and I begged him to give me one more chance.  He agreed!  Ta da...I showed him what to do, it worked, and we got to work ASAP!  The project still wasn't that easy but he hung in there and made my vision a reality.  Have I mentioned lately how much I love this man?  He is my hero! 

I really, really love this look.  The idea is to write scripture on the white part between the two pieces of quarter round...however, it is so pretty like this I am afraid to mess it up.  I have tested the dry erase paint and while it isn't perfect it is certainly doable.  It was a huge risk, one I wasn't sure if I wanted to make, but Scott encouraged me to go for it and so far I am glad I did!