GRRRRR!!!!!!

I've actually been working on the basement walls this week (well, one wall) - Greg and I peeled off all the wallpaper, then I washed all the remaining glue off, filled the holes, sanded, and last night I put the primer on. When I put Abby down for her nap this morning, I was all set and excited to actually put some paint on! (For those who don't know, I absolutely love painting...even the smell, ahhhhh.) Shook up the can, poured it in the pan, hopped in my van...sorry, got carried away with the rhyming. I started doing the top edge by the ceiling and suddenly it occurred to me that the color didn't quite look right. I compared the dried paint on the can to the color in the front hall, and it seemed to look similar. I went back to painting and just had a feeling that something was not right. I dabbed a little bit of the color on one of the walls that is already the color we're using, and sure enough, the paint I had on my brush was quite definitely not the same.

I figured out that the can I was using was the brown-ish paint from the sewing room, not from the front hall. I actually debated about using that color instead, but it would be too dark for the entire basement. So now I don't get to paint after all!! Okay, Pollyanna attitude - I am so thankful I had only done a couple of strokes on the wall before I figured it out, so it was easy enough to wipe off. I can't imagine how frustrated I would be if I had gotten the whole wall done before I realized it.

I'm still not sure if I threw out the correct color of paint by accident when we were cleaning out all our paint cans a few months ago, or if I never had any left of the right color and just had it in my head that I did because this one looks quite similar (on the outside of the can, at least).

I guess I'll be stopping at the paint store to get new paint tomorrow - if I can find the paint chip it came from! I think I may have thrown out the chip thinking that I didn't need it because I still had a can of the paint to get the color number off of...