Some days, you just feel like painting rocks. Usually they are the days when you should be doing ten other things like the dishes, planting out seedlings, finishing a project with a looming deadline or organising your next project with a looming deadline, but instead you pull out some nice round rocks and put some coats of paint on them.
Then you paint them with little scenes of birdies and cupcakes and houses.
When they are dry you add some finishing touches to sparkle and captivate...Then you spray with several coats of clear varnish. Because you are hasty the spray goes on too thick, and doesn't dry properly. Then it smudges and you realise you have to repaint some details. Damn.
So you repaint, respray and this time everything is perfect.
And then you have a pile of brightly painted, lolly coloured rocks to sell at the market next month.