It could happen to you…
How likely is the following scenario?
A few days ago I took my daughter with me to Michael’s. While there, she happened to spy one of those little cardboard houses to paint and make into a Christmas ornament. She wanted it. It was like $.50, so ok. She told me she wanted it to be blue. So we went and picked out the exact shade of blue she wanted together too.
That night, after she was asleep, I sat down on the floor watching Dexter and painted the little house. I had my two little tiny reused bottlecaps of paint inside of a deep reused take-out tray. That way, no worries about spills, right?
I finished, took the whole business into the kitchen to let the little house dry so that I could later add some glitter accents.
Later, added the glitter accents.
That day, idiot me left the house with the tray with the two TINY bottle caps full of paint on the counter. What could go wrong???
My dog, that’s what. !@(*&@#$! Now my dogs paws are each at least twice as big as one bottle cap, but still. He managed to get the tray down, knock it over, and somehow then STEP INTO the bottle cap (the one with teal BLUE paint, of course, not the one with WHITE paint) and proceeded to leave teal blue paw prints All. Over. The. House. Every single step leading to the basement, the beige carpet.
The weirdest thing is that he literally did not *spill* a drop of paint. The paint was still in the darned bottle caps! He STEPPED IN the cap and got the paint on his foot.
I would just about kill for a video of this thing so I could laugh at it.
Meanwhile, I’ve been googling how to remove acrylic paint from beige carpet and found one lonely tip out there in the interwebz, to use rubbing alcohol. So in case this ever happens to you (likely, right?!), here’s the scoop. Dump the alcohol directly onto the stain, then scrub like crazy with a very absorbent towel (that you don’t mind chucking afterward). The stains are coming right out, but the fumes have me a bit dizzy. On the bright side, my floor is going to be So Clean!!!!!
Posted: September 12th, 2009 under rants....
Tags: crafting paint cleaning disaster doggy
Comment from mc
September 15, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Classic. It always works that way–perfect mess. I am glad it’s coming out. And a forced unexpected scrub is never fun but in the end has benefits.