Almost Blue

I'm always telling the kids to be careful when they're performing a task.  "Pay attention.  Be safe.  Be smart." all that good, motherly advice.

Last night, I was painting the kitchen cabinets (blue) and when I was ready to quit for the night, I went to clean up.  I was feeling pretty good about minimal spatter or spillage, but I did have a bit of paint on my arms and hands.  So I go in the bathroom and look in the mirror.  WTF?!  There are blue swooshes all over my shirt!  upon closer examination, I realize that at some point in the process, my ponytail had dunked itself into my paint tray.  The bottom 2" were blue and stuck together like a giant paintbrush, and very nearly *dry.*  LOL  I had painted my chest with my own brush.  Man, was that a pain to clean out of my hair, even if it is latex-based.  There were icky blue flecks all over the sink, so I had to clean it for the second time in one day.  As well as wash my hair a second time.

From now on, I put my hair in a bun when dealing with paint.

Just Call Me Blue

Rats!  I put my hair up so I could do the last coat of blue on the cabinets, and I totally leaned back into a freshly painted surface while attempting to paint the underside of a cabinet.  I got a big blue spot on my bun!