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.
The Grout!! The Grout!! Save the Grout!! I have to admit, that was my first thought. Lesson learned: Never, Never, NEVER answer the stupid telephone when in ANY phase of a painting project! So sorry this happened to you.
I keep telling Wes it is HIS fault because he called me. LOL I’ll figure something out.
Have you ever stepped off a ladder into a bucket of paint? Back in my decorative painting days, I was working on a parchment finish with my partner and backed off the ladder right into a 5 gallon bucket.! And in THOSE days, we worked with alkyd paint and thinner to make our glaze – no way to salvage my shoe or sock. I stood there holding my foot up over the bucket, dripping glaze, laughing so hard because I didn’t know what to do! How to get out of the customer’s living room without making a mess – involved wrapping my foot in a spare tarp and a lot of hopping.
Best- story -ever! I have the best visual in my mind of you hopping out of the house, wrapped in a tarp.
It’s amazing to hear just how many people have done similar things. We are only human after all. 🙂
At least you were a good sport about it.
What else can you do? 🙂
I think we have all been there….glad you can laugh about it! I’m usually the one who steps into the paint tray!
The reason I never use trays! 😉
at least you have acute painting outfit from now on
It’s in the trash. It would have been too stiff to wear with THAT much paint on it. I’m still washing it off my skin because it soaked clear through. LOL