Me and paint
really have something going together, I mean, we have a natural attraction
to each other.
Or in other
words, I can't even take the lid off a tin of paint without it getting
all over me! If I am using a roller I get smothered in tiny flecks.
If I am using a brush I usually end up with it in my hair. And why
is it that when you have made a mistake and you try to fix it, you
end up with a bigger mess than when you started?!
These statements
are right whether you are home decorating or crafting. You can always
guarantee that the door bell or the phone will go just when you have
got to a tricky bit that is the point of no return! Then when you
have dealt with the caller, your brush has gone dry or you have put
it in your mouth and absentmindedly brushed past the wall with it,
creating a new abstract look for your hallway. More cleaning up. Then,
when cleaning that bit, you realise how dirty the rest of the wall
is and you now have an area that although small is now a lot lighter
than the rest of the wall and draws the eye immediately, so you start
to clean the wall.
Where do you
stop? At the corner? How far up? I usually have to stop when I can't
reach any higher, and my theory is that if I can't reach it, no-one
will notice it! (that theory goes for dusting too!!)
So, wall washed
and clean, you stand back to admire it...and knock the water bowl
over! Finally, water mopped, wall wiped, brush cleaned, phone off
the hook with a pillow over it so you can't hear that annoying wail
it makes when it wants to be but on the hook again, and you are ready
to start painting again. You sit at your table, take a deep breath
and load your brush. Bliss.
10 mins later
you are so absorbed in your work that you don't notice until it is
too late that you have just drunk your paint water instead of your
juice!
Some days you
wonder why you even got up!
Jude