Painting

Let's just set the record straight, I am the worst painter ever! When P and I bought our first house (just over a month ago) I was stoked about all the painting possibilities and quickly chose a color for almost every room in the house, very much convinced that I would knock it all out in a week or so. Well a month later and I just finishe painting our bedroom. It was dreadful. Paint everywhere, including under the dropcloth??!! and on the sheets of the bed. Now, with all the walls painted a very soothing Freshwater blue/aqua color I am faced with having to touch up my goofs tonight. Or maybe I will just follow in P's footsteps and put this off as long as possible.

At only a month in I have decided that I despise painting. I am not experiencing any of the fun I had envisioned. It didn't even take me a month to figure it out though, the hatred started rising when I immeadiately gave up on my dining room paint job. After only one, non-primed, coat of RedBay I was finished. It soaked right into the new walls and was certainly not the warm welcoming red I had envisioned for the home of my future dinner parties! In addition to the cramping hands I was climbing up and down the ladder with a paint pan trying desperatley not to spill and getting paint everywhere except within the intended boundaries.

After nearly a week of leaving my pitiful dining room wall in paint limbo P realized he was going to have to bite the (paint) bucket and pick up my slack. He graciously went out and bought the much needed primer and a cozier shade of cranberry and got to work. Everyday I came home from work to see more and more positive progress and was constantly reminded of why I love P! Well now the painting of the walls is complete and work has come to a standstill. There isn't much work left to be done, except for touching up the trim but I know neither one of us want to take on that challenge. Any suggestions for touch up trimwork without going back and forth between the white and the red paintbrushes? I have tried taping and I have tried SHUR-LINE but the only thing I'm sure of now is that if I don't find an easier solution to edging around windows, doors, and fireplaces then my home will never be quite the feast for the eyes as I had imagined.