AN APRIL SUNDAY

So Easter was lovely but now it's over, so we move on to sorting out the panelled wall area in the breakfast/day room. 

I decided that the green in the kitchen would be way too bright for a whole wall in the rest of the area. Above on the right is F&B Breakfast Room Green, lovely colour and perfect name. However that would mean buying another pot of their expensive paint.

So on the left we have the Emerald Green paint from the kitchen but mixed up with some Farrows cream 67 paint also by F&B that we had left over from the hallway. This I'm calling Paul's green.

So more decisions ! 

In the end we decided to use Paul's green, since it costs nothing, uses up the paint and is a lovely colour. Above is it's first coat, which looks lovely and brighter than seen in the photos but not too bright.

He now needs to fit the door to the boiler cupboard, so he can paint that before mixing up a second batch.

Our print for the empty wall in the kitchen finally arrived and looks well in the space, there is still space for other things if necessary too.

The print is of a section of the beautiful garden at Great Dixter, the home of the late Christopher Lloyd, shown is the long border with the house behind. If you love medieval buildings and gardens, this is well worth a visit.

I have also been finding frames for some of the prints that have been waiting a few years to get on the walls!

I finally found a frame that would fit this long print which Paul then cut down the frame in height and remade.

Years back when we did the hall stairs and landing, we left a space above an arts n crafts copper plate for a print of a women pouring water from a bowl, it's taken us until this week to finally frame and put up the print !

I have one more print to frame and then I'm finally caught up and we can forget about frames!

The weekend , so far as been dry but very windy thanks to storm Kathleen, which has hit other parts of the country much worse than around here.

Todays headliner is the gorgeous Magda, still wearing her winter purples but since it's been so chilly with all the wind around, she's been more than happy to stay wrapped up. Although she does say she is ready for a change in the next couple of weeks.

On the doll front not much has been happening, well apart from me buying a Gregor.... but more about him once he arrives. I need to get my act together to sort out a donation to the festival raffle in the next couple of weeks and also try getting back into the doll studio! 

So I will wish you all a happy healthy week ahead 

Dee