SO WM STILL WINS

 

So remember how we strayed off the path of using a non William Morris paper and so a small print paper to deciding on this , a large floral print by of course WM ! 

Well did I place my order for the above wallpaper ? No

Did I continue to admire it on the chimney breast . each time I entered the room ? Yes I did, looking at it in all the different times of the day light.

However on the other side of the room, I put up a sample of another wallpaper that had at one time been almost a front runner.

Now this wallpaper is called Standen ! If you remember, that is a beautiful arts and crafts house owned by the National Trust in East Grinstead, near where by youngest daughter used to live, so we have visited it a couple of times.

Well today I finally looked again at both of the wallpapers and although I do love the big and bold Blue and white paper, I finally settled on the Standen wallpaper in the green and white. Apart from being yet another WM wallpaper , turns out it's also on sale , we will not need to replace either the curtains or bedside lampshades unless we want to, as both are green.

But also I have ordered the wallpaper , so decision made at last, no going back ! So we move forward.

A COOL BUT DRY SUNDAY IN MARCH

 

COOl almost cold at times, enough to remind us that it is barely into spring, so to stop expecting lovely warm days. However just yesterday, it was a lovely warm day !!! So we are in the month of any type of weather from snow to boil in the course of twenty four hours or even just two ! 

This week I have been sorting things and searching for things, not the big I must clear the studio completely , then slowly put it all back but the pop in search about, sure I knew what I had done with something ,  only to find as normal that it was not what I thought and so therefore nowhere in sight!

I decided to sell a chunk of my Maileg furniture items and I know that I did keep quite a few of the boxes and they were in another much bigger box! Only I could /cannot find any bigger box but did find some boxes in one of the easier to get to cupboards. So ! Did I have them in a bigger box, then move the smaller boxes into the cupboard ? Or is the bigger box of boxes still out there ?   Have I become Paul, who would always remember the decision / discussion two further back than the most recent one made? Have I now become the person who remembers only what I did/saw once and not what happened later/ after that one ! It is possible but if so , so unhelpful !!

Now I need find places for some things in the bedroom, in order that Paul can get to the walls to put up some lining paper. Then he can get the new skirting boards on and the picture rail that we removed.  Paul has started gardening but I still have that window to get the bedroom done before he heads outside for hours at a time !

All the magnolia's are starting to flower  and this one called Black Tulip is putting on a grand show.

a closer view on a nicer brighter day.

I have made two of these jackets for my Roche dolls. But having to fight against the pain in my hands to keep going, so annoying when you want to get things done.

Todays headliners are a bunch of no navel girls, Ashley, Ginny, Martha, Saffron and Cilla. All still warmly dressed , because in this family we go with that old saying " cast nar a clout until May is out "

A clout being an old word for clothing, so don't remove any clothing until after the hawthorn blooms in May. Since I have been known to still be wearing a cardigan in June , you could say I follow the old ways ;) 

On the doll front It's been a one out and one due in week. Neither of them Sasha's. I am also finally getting round to putting other 'prop' type items up for sale along with some household items. I was good and did not cave in and buy some Ruth H dolls clothes someone was selling. Which is amazing that I didn't at least buy one! So maybe I am behaving ? maybe? well alright this week on the clothing front . . .

Well I need to go and have just one more look for these boxes that I was sure were in a bigger box. . . . .

I promise to take some new photo's for the headliners, as soon as it warms up a little.

Have a great healthy fun and doll  filled week ahead 

Dee