I have a new love: spray paint.

It’s a miracle product.

It makes ugly things beautiful, unusable things usable, nasty things pretty, and awkward things normal, like, for instance, these, um, elf . . . things . . . with eyelashes that completely encircle their eyes.

Eww.

They’re hideous.

You can say it. I don’t mind. In fact, I’ll even agree with you.

I mean, why is a little creature sitting on a mushroom anyway?

These are the things I wonder about.

But then, enter $3.99 of paint,

a snooze in the hammock while it dries,

and you have some pretty cute little pixies to brighten up the plants on your deck.

Move over, duct tape.

There’s a new sheriff in town.