Sunday 7th March 2010

Feeling virtuous tonight - and deserve a treat!

Most of the day I was at our house packing up my mini workroom, to put the containers in storage. When the house is finally empty we will paint it, clean the carpets throughout and rearrange some of the rooms. Then as things are put back in the house I will be sorting and de-cluttering as much as I can – even my minis. They are okay as far as de-cluttering goes. And they were organised until my nephew and brother started packing it all up while we were away, and my nephew decided it was a better use of space to combine things into the plastic containers to fill them all right up! So now things are not stored in their nicely labelled - and categorised - plastic boxes any more, and I will have to go through and re-sort and re-pack everything. While I am doing that I will make sure that they have been photographed for the inventory I have of each of the items I buy.

So after seven hours of that, so stiff and sore I could hardly move I was glad to have a lovely warm shower and relax with the Sea Shanty. All the preparation last night paid off - the dado was ready to glue in place and the trim is ready to put on when I get some flooring for the bedroom and downstairs. I was going to put the trim on the ground floor ceiling too, but did the wallpapering in the bedroom instead. It looks really nice with all three rooms papered. The only trouble is that I had to join the paper because it was really meant for the bathroom and when I joined it I made the mistake of overlapping it from back to front instead of front over back so it is more obvious. Drat! But at least it is in a position where it is not too noticeable – and I will put a picture there if it shows when the roof goes on.

The dado looks crooked in the photo – but it’s not. I like the effect of the bedroom wallpaper: it has a pale yellow background, with just a very tiny blue design on it. So even though it continues the blue theme, there is also a brightening from the yellow. That yellow is also echoed with just a touch of the same colour in the downstairs paper. So it all ties together without being repetitive.

The bedroom furniture also looks really nice painted too – I’ve done it a medium brown colour, to simulate a timber effect. I also did the steps and handrail on the stairs the same colour. That looks really nice too, with the balusters and risers in the pale grey-blue. Now I have to find some fabric for the bed cover – I’m thinking of a simple patchwork quilt, in squares, so it’s finding nice fine fabrics that are in the right colours.

And to top it off my darling brother came over to the caravan and massaged my poor sore feet for over an hour, bless him!  Not only did it help the feet but because it massaged the trigger points in the feet as well I am now headache free - what bliss!  It cut my mini-ing time short but it was worth every second of it vbg!  Now are you jealous?!