This week my wife came running into the room yelling, "PAUL WAKE UP NOW! HURRY!"
Apparently our son got up early and did a little exploring. Every paint in the center picture was under the table in a pile, many with their caps taken off.
My wife has been letting our son paint these little $1 wooden animal cut outs and picture frames we get from the local hobby shop and AC Moore. My boy likes painting them a lot and often asks to go to "Bobby Hobby". Hopefully this will translate into a future love for the plastic crack. Anyway, Back to the story at hand.
Friday he was painting and my wife found out the neighbor was having a yard sale the next day. Our house quickly became a disaster zone while things were getting moved next door for the sale. After the flurry of activity setting up for the sale tons of stuff was left sitting on out dining room table. She claims that she didn't put the paints on the floor, but since she brought them up from the basement its not my fault for once!
After a day of soaking and scrubbing with the acrylic brush cleaner from my kids last painting adventure we gave up. My wife just wants to flip the rug. I think we should wait a few years since something else is bound to happen. What do you think?
Thankfully it was just a rug and coffee table. Tables can be refinished, rugs can be flipped. Easy and cheap enough to fix I think.
ReplyDeleteSorry 'bout your luck.
Preserve the rug. When possible, replace or flip.
ReplyDeleteWhen a teenager and asking for cash to mow the lawn, give your son the cut out rug and say, "Here, Picasso, is why you are only getting 10.00 for mowing the lawn. Get mowing!"
I've heard that hairspray of all things can get acrylic paint out of fabric. Spray, rub.
ReplyDeleteTry Simple Green. It works to take the paint off of figures, why not fabric?
The neighbor calls my son Picasso now too LOL.
ReplyDeleteI have tons of Simple Green for a forge world bath at the moment. I just might try it on the rug on my next day off.
Haha, awesome. I can't wait to have one of my own.
ReplyDeleteI'd say flip the rug. I just finished re-carpeting the house when the wife found out she was pregnant. We decided we had better enjoy the new carpet while we can because once the kid trashes it that's the way it stays till he moves out. With a throw rug, I'd flip and as James said, use it against him later in life.
ReplyDeleteFlip it. Erasure of evidence for future punishment is a poor strategy.
ReplyDeleteJust throw some devlan mud on that, problem solved! :]
ReplyDeleteHrmm.... Mud wash does fix everything!
ReplyDeleteLOL, I love that your wife wife was like "come quick now!" at a point where it was probably too late. My paints are behind a closed door, but I should probably keep them in a drawer too.
ReplyDeleteI agree that simple green will probably do the trick, you can even wash the rug and throw it in with the detergent.
When I was at school, if I got paint on my shirt or trousers in my art lessons I'd just paint over it! White paint for the shirt; black for the trousers (Devlan Mud didn't exist back then). My dad, who did the laundry, never seemed to notice...maybe your wife won't?
ReplyDeleteI've a daughter of 7 months: I've all this to come!