So it's Sunday again! Time does certainly fly when you are having fun! or just living life. No I had hoped to give you all a little tour of the newly finished kitchen... but it's not finished! I forgot one important factor when making that claim, the larder cupboard!
It needed to be painted before any wallpaper could go up since the wallpaper will be butting up to and also behind it. So first 'sin' of the week was to say to Paul " Does it really need you to put undercoat on an already painted surface? " Therefore making him decide to save time and not do so.
Which has resulted in needing to give said larder cupboard, three to four coats of paint, fighting to get a nice even painted surface!
We used Farrow and Ball gloss paint, because this colour way Pelt, deep purple, was recommended to look great in a nice glossy shine. I'm sure it does but it's a nightmare to use, unlike their other paints, the panelling for example.
Anyway, we will be moving on to the wallpapering tomorrow whether this cupboard looks perfect or not, if not we will have to return to paint yet another coat later, once everything else is done and finished!.
So ' sin' number two was looking at and bidding on dolls! Sasha's! I'm blaming the recent showing of everyone's black Cora's, Caleb's and babies on the FB group for this. I now want one of each, after having them and selling them on!
Which is why Tattie, my new to me black baby doll, is this weeks headliner.
She's called Tattie, because her hair is not perfect nor is her face, she's been loved but not too much. Now I had at one time just Elton Ron, my only baby and therefore sold off all the baby clothes apart from a few things for Elton. Suddenly after only having the one baby , for a few years, there are now three babies! Elton Ron, Peter and now Tattie !
I nearly added a few more big Sasha's to my family but forgot to go back before the auctions ended!! Not that I'm supposed to be adding any! But it does seem that quite a few nice Sasha's and Gregor's are appearing at the moment!
Anyway, now Tattie needs some clothes, so I will have to go and search Elton Ron's clothing to see if anything will do for now. I did have a quick look on ebay but it appears no one is selling any clothing at the moment.
So the third ' sin' was committed against me! I have been buying a few items of China on ebay for my dresser's blue and white theme. I won a lovely old plate for the starting bid of 99p. Which I was surprised and pleased about. However my six sense told me things would not go well and how right I was !
I had already bought a couple of other plates, which arrived boxed and well padded and these were washed and added to the dresser.
Then yesterday the 99p plate arrived, left on the doorstep by the courier, picked up by me late last night when I saw the email that said it had been delivered , who could immediately hear and feel the broken pieces.
It had been sent in a plastic bag, wrapped in one piece of thin bubble wrap!
The plate ! Such a shame when people don't take any care about wrapping things and sending them.
This is the box one of my other plates came in, sturdy with plenty of filling to stop the plate from moving about. I have only had a couple of items over the years that have arrived broken and almost every time its been because the sender didn't think it through and just wrapped it in the first thing that came to hand and trusted the rest to luck!! If I send anything fragile , I tend to over pack for fear of a breakage!
So that's more than enough 'sins' for the week! The kitchen is almost done, almost! I may have bid on a Sasha.... and Easter is just round the corner! Wishing you all a lovely happy healthy week ahead.
Dee
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