painting

The other day a very wonderful friend asked me to paint clouds on her little sweet daughter's ceiling (she is redecorating her room with animals and such). So I did some research and found the best technique out there! :) I had lots of fun doing it but wow did my neck hurt afterwards...standing on a ladder for 4 1/2 hours looking up is kinda neck aching.
I had a couple of oops moments:
I just started my first cloud, I was looking up, my eyes set on the ceiling with paint container in the other hand and then realized I was paying attention to the hand holding the paint container cause I had paint dripping down my shirt and down my pants. Hahaha, it was a good thing I decided to add more paint to my paint brush because that is when I realized what I was doing. I was pouring paint down the left side of my body. I was covered in paint.
Then just 5 minutes later I knocked the the paint container off the ladder and it feel behind the door. and down the wall the paint went. White paint, yikes, and of course I couldn't get down the ladder fast enough to catch it as it traveled down the wall to the only place that the carpet wasn't covered. So I panicked, BUT it came up and it was all good. I thought, what a way to start my paint day. After those moments I really didn't have any other oops moments to speak of...those were all at the very start and then I got my grove with paint, paint brush, sea sponges, towel, rags and other supplies all balanced on the top of the ladder with me! I laugh now how I managed it all, finally!
What a great day I had with a paint brush and music. It brought me great joy especially when they came home and really enjoyed the clouds on the ceiling! So, thank you to my great friend who let me express my love for painting and use a gift.