Slowly but Surely

So I've taken a teeny-weeny step towards painting my place: I covered the ugly strip of tile in my kitchen with masking tape and painted over the tape so that it's all a solid color (instead of some ancient-looking intricate flower detail). Before, it used to look like this:

Then I came along with my sneaky plans:

Now, it looks like this:

Well, actually, I forgot to take a picture of the whole kitchen as the finished product... but you get the idea, heehee...

Next, I'm going to paint the division between the living room and the kitchen. Hopefully I'll have the time and energy to do that when I get home tonight :)

I can't wait til I can get some free time to paint the rest of the kitchen... hopefully when I get back from Nigeria...