SUNDAY ARRIVES WITH SOME RAIN

 

Yes we are finally getting some decent rain! We also here in the village had what is called a multicell ! That's right I'd not heard of that either, it was a very heavy downpour with large hailstones, thunder and lightening when a couple of storms arrive together. Made for an interesting half an hour!  Since then we have had some rain each day but the garden still looks like it's in need , so if we keep getting rain on and off I have no problem with it.

So things are now moving along with the bedroom! Finally after twenty one years , and a quick repaint not long after moving in, we have wallpaper on three of the bedroom walls !  

Not a very good photo but proof it's happened. ( my mum's childhood chair which she loved )  

When Paul said he was going up to paint the windowsill and put some wallpaper up, I thought that meant he'd probably get maybe one / two walls done but he did the lot ! So when I went to bed that night it took me a good couple of hours to get to sleep , which the plans , decisions rattled round my head for getting the radiator moved and panelling done on finally wall behind bed, then what colour to paint it, what colour carpet etc etc etc !  All way to early to be thinking about until the new radiator is bought and the old one removed. 

Although I have to confess today I bought new bedside tables , something that wasn't even on the plans !! 

The wall behind the bedside table is going to have panelling which will be painted in a shade of deep pink maybe a berry colour.

While looking at wallpapers etc I loved one that I then decided against, however it comes in fabric and I have fallen for a lovely damson coloured one, which is deeper than the wallpapers they offered. 

I love the beautiful padded headboards that you can now get , however I have a Victorian style metal bed, which I also love. So I am considering making a padded headboard that can wrap round the metal headboard and if not a couple of deep cushions that hang from the metal frame. 

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So I have sent for a swatch of the fabric to see the colour up close and see if it works with everything else I have. 

The bedroom is again moving forward and I still have hopes of us getting it done by the end of the year, but still need radiators moved, electric points put in, panelling up and painted and new carpet laid. Never mind about head boards etc.

The studio clearing came to it's usual halt, but is still better than it was but no where near where it needs to be, so I must  get back in there again in the coming week and sort out more 

Today's headliner is the sweet Hettie, in her Boneka dress and Rosie Bloom shoes.

On the sales/clearing front it's going steadily with a few items being sold on from all my bits and pieces that need new homes. A couple of the Kaffe Fassett patchwork packs have been sold, thank goodness , as less fabric for me to have to make use of! 

On the buying front I have been so good ! I bought some A4 envelopes, which I needed for my smaller sales. Oh and I did buy an elephant only to realise it was one I already have !!! That will teach me not to check and not to buy things when I'm trying to be good ! 

So I will wish you all a happy healthy fun filled week ahead

Dee

ANOTHER SUNNY SUNDAY . . . . .

 

Yes the sun is still shinning ! We were promised rain, well okay they did not actually promise but they did show the rain crossing the country our way ! Then we watched the big black and grey clouds head our way and then pass either side of us ! To drop their rain elsewhere in the county but not here !

In all this talk of rain we had one twenty minute downpour, something during one night and then nothing zero ! Saturday was lovely and cool to start with but by afternoon the temp had hit 26 c but there was still a nice cool breeze with it but still no rain ! 

But now it's cooled down , I decided it was time to find the studio floor again ! 

The view from the doorway, I've already removed one box before this photo was taken, I'd dumped things back inside before I went off to look after Clara and also when the people were to view the garden.

The pavement in front of the shop has become a shelf full of items that need sorting and putting away !

The space I have to walk through to get to the chest of drawers! So bags first ! 

So five bags and two boxes to sort out and put away in their correct homes, or to find the things in them homes. I've decided that I must also be hard this time, not keep hold of scraps of fabric or things I will never use but may be hard to sell.

When we set the studio up, we used kitchen units for the bases but did not buy any skirting boards, so the space below could be used for more storage with the boxes shown above. Well a month or so back I pulled this box out to see just what was it in.

turned out it was . . . . . . . 

 Treasure !!

In amongst everything were around 39 fat quarters of William Morris fabric  plus the two larger pieces one of which is shown on the back 

This little selection of interesting fabrics and 

Plus four packets of Kaffe Fassett Free Spirit fabric each containing 42 x 5 inch squares for quilting ! 

now this shot satin was going to be used for regency jackets for my A Girl for all time dolls, I had this fabric and I had the pattern ! But the dolls have all moved on but I have other dolls that could get use of it.

Now lets be honest , the likelihood of me actually using all this up any time soon, is almost zero ! So I am going to list the Kaffe Fassett quilting squares but will wait on the rest, to see if any project ideas come along.  Maybe a WM quilt is on the cards but we all know my attention span and timetable for making things ! 

But I have been much more creative this year , so maybe I will return to this box, once winter arrives and work my way through it. Hoy! That was a flying pig ! 

Ava very kindly stepped in to be today's headliner, since I forgot to take a photo for today's post and it's now too hot outside to take one.

On the doll front, I have sold a doll and a few other doll bits and piece's.

However I did buy a couple of other dolls, I know !! But at least because I am having a sort out I am now finding more things that I can sell to open up the space and pay for new dolls. Although I would like to manage not to buy any more for a good while.

Have a lovely healthy doll filled week ahead 

Dee