How do you tell when your paint tray is overfilled?
When it washes over the edge like a tidal wave all down your front, that’s when.
I discovered this morning that I have lost my decorating mojo. Not only did I fail to manage my paint tray correctly but my roller wouldn’t roll. It just kind of stuck so great floppily globs of emulsion dripped from it when I applied it to the ceiling in time-honoured fashion.
I was ok with the rubbing down. I mean, what can you get wrong with sandpaper, apart from sandpapering the tips off your newly bought decorating gloves? Fingerless mitts might have been ok in Dickens’ day but quite frankly, they are just further crevices into which emulsion paint can seep.
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Boadicea's Chariot 