I just got back from Wal-Mart and they had a rack of little cacti in gaudy shades of blue, red and even yellow. I showed them to my husband and told him about this thread. We were discussing how awful they looked when a couple walked up and the man remarked how cool they were and what a great idea it was to spray paint a cactus. My husband's remark to him? "It's like spray painting a cat. Not a good idea there either." Never know what he is going to come up with....................