Little Stalky Gets Her Paint On

Today I've been painting.  I've been let loose with a paint brush and a big tin of red paint.  Mystical Roo and Monster Noggin will be doing an expo in Melbourne shortly and I was helping out by painting the stand.  Red.  I'm actually not bad at painting and do rather a neat job.  It's just everything else that gets messed up.  Myself included.  I was looking rather stylish when I left the house this morning in pink jogging bottoms, an over sized red t-shirt borrowed from Mystical Roo and a pair of flip flops.  Then I got to wear pink gloves and use red paint.  How very colour coordinated of me.  So I spent the morning painting the stand, taking extreme care to make sure the paint was even but not noticing the paint I was dripping on the floor and onto my trousers.  Oh well.  I can't be perfect.  At least I'm not as bad as El Kenco who, when helping me to paint my house in England, managed to get gloss paint all over her face.  We're still not sure how it happened but by the end of the day there was definitely more paint on El Kenco than there was on my skirting boards.  When we were kids I must confess that I thought it would be a good idea to cover my hands in blue, gloss paint but then, I was a kid.  I think it took a lot of white spirit to get that lot off.  Not cool.  But I've done a fair bit of painting since then and have learned several valuable tips.  Always sand before you paint.  Wear latex gloves to protect your hands from paint - especially gloss!  Wrap your paintbrushes in clingfilm when you're having a tea break.  And never let El Kenco near your skirting boards!