Thursday 4th March 2010

Well, so much for getting such a lot done yesterday! Apart from constructing the Captain's desk and getting the Sea Shanty to this stage (with 3 coats of white craft paint on the inside and I’m still not really satisfied) I spent the most of the time printing out the free wallpapers from QC, and trying to make my own flooring for the bathroom. Wasted a lot of ink and I'm not happy with any of them :-( So I guess I wait until I can order some flooring from overseas and that means I've pretty well come to a dead stop as far as the interior goes. I'll paint the bedroom furniture today and dress the bed up to the quilt stage - I don't have the fabric I have in mind to hand - and that will be it I think



Anyway after wasting a lot of ink and time, I came up with various tiles for the bathroom and settled on a mid blue. I did it as a table in Word, experimented with shading in different colours and made the cells as small as I could. Did the borders in white. Then I scanned the table and saved it as a JPEG file. Printed it out as a photo but on plain paper, in a smaller size.

Then I did another table, did just columns in shading to form stripes and then chose 'no borders' so it would be nice stripes. The trouble is that each time you make it smaller it gets darker. So I chose the lightest shading I could in that colourway of blue - and wouldn't you know it, instead of getting darker it got lighter! Grrrrrr! In the end though I think I have some striped wallpaper. Now I’m going to think about it overnight.