Indisputably my worst painting blunder ever!
It’s a two-fer week for me in the blunder department. First I had to take a cabinet apart and rebuild it, that wasn’t too bad.
This one… this one was pretty BAD!
You should know that I mix my paint by holding it up and shaking the heck out of it.
Now the story goes like this: I shook my paint. I loosened by lid. I answered a phone call… 20 minutes later I went back to my project and forgot that I’d loosened my lid. I thought, “It’s been a while, I should probably shake this a bit more — for good measure.”
I’m sure you can guess the rest.
I didn’t even cry. (I just wiped my face.)
I took off my sweatshirt and used the floor as my paint tray (because I had spilled a LOT and wasn’t about to waste my $50/gallon paint by just cleaning it up) and finished painting my cabinets.
Then I danced! Because what else is there to do when you spill a half a gallon of paint of the floor?
I kept my Chucks but threw the rest of my clothes away.
They weren’t my favorites anyway.
We just had our lower level bath redone. It was suggested that we put cardboard on the floor when painting (did most before the floor went in) so if we spilled some it wouldn’t get into the grout. We were told that was impossible to get out. What is your plan?? I would love a post to show how you remedy this problem, as I’m sure many have had this happen and just cry, cry, cry. You rock Sandra–even more than before–love your atttitude.
I’m still in the “ignore it for now and figure it out later” stage of this accident. I will definitely let you know what I do. LOL Good on you for laying cardboard. I need to stop being so lazy and do that…although, it would have soaked through in this case. Cardboard can only do SO much. It’s just one of those things. Honestly, I’m just glad it was my own home and not a client. I’m sure I woulda’ been fired! LOL
I’m taking a break from painting right now. Hope you didn’t jinx me. lol j..k.. I did the same thing once. The cleanup aint fun. Glad you can laugh about it though. 🙂 Hope the rest of the day goes better.
LOL Nancy. I hope you got back from your painting break and all went well! If not, please send me some pictures! 🙂
We did this once… I say “we” because hubby prefers to stir the paint, so while I waited for him to return to the kitchen to stir the can, I opened it to view the beautiful color, then set the lid back on top. I had a phone call and he returned to the kitchen and picked up the can…and then I heard lots of bad words! Of course, it was all my fault, but I asked him why he picked it up from the center of newspapers, etc. It’s one for the books. We didn’t get any painting done that night.
OH my! I can only imagine the atmosphere that would have been created if someone else had loosened the lid and I hadn’t known… I’m glad I can only blame myself. We have to have these stories to tell our grandkids in 50 years anyway. Unless we forget, which is highly likely in my case — which is why I document them all! LOL
Maybe this would have been a time for ‘stirred, not shaken’ instead of ‘shaken, not stirred’? lol Poor thing. At least the cabinets got painted…now getting the paint out of that grout…YIKES!
Yes, and those cabinets look dang good. LOL
Heh. I did this once with a jar of spaghetti sauce. But I didn’t have to throw away my clothes. YIKES!
Glad to see you can laugh about it – much better reaction than any of the alternatives!
Breida
Oh my. I’m sure I’ve done it with spaghetti sauce too. LOL The paint was soaked through to my skin and I don’t like to wash that much paint down the drain and if I just let it dry and then wore them…they’d be stiff as a board. I was just complaining about how those jeans didn’t have any stretch anyway so I really wasn’t too disappointed. Though, I generally don’t throw away clothes over donating them — unless they are useless to anyone because they are covered in paint. Where am I going with this? Rambling… 🙂