I had awarded myself the day off today, as I felt I had earned it. We went to have another look at carpet at a local shop, and found one K& I both liked for the bedroom, and they will lay the bathroom lino at the same time (last day of February.) It's a silvery grey. We should be able to shift all the furniture in there (Tam and I) and get the old carpet up and we will dispose of that ourselves at the Tip, rather than paying for it to be taken away.
Then it was time for more housewifely chores. No escaping them. I had just sat down with my x-stitch (finished bar for a bit of back-stitching still to do). I had taken ONE stitch and Tam came in to ask if I could help her with the wallpapering in her room. Deep sigh.
Mushroom is such an exciting colour . . . NOT! Wall in Tam's room.
From the first drop, it wasn't straightforward as there was a socket in the way and Tam was telling me I should be doing it the way it was done (professionally) in some videos she had watched. This is not a good career move when your mother is an Aries. Of course, she shot my new-found confidence to bits in seconds and I did it my way and screwed up, but my error has been disguised and by the time it's trimmed in the morning, should be invisible. The corner wall was "off" too, between top and bottom and I got, oh the video said to cut it the width into the corner and then line up a new piece on the next wall (NOT what I had done in our room, needless to say). Tomorrow should be fun! We will square up on the next corner.
The test wall. The blue last on the right is the colour being used (Moroccan Mint).
Not trimmed except for partly in the corner where the white levels look totally WRONG but aren't!! Tomorrow when it's dry I get can busy with the Stanley knife and get rid of the excess. The white line is the top edge of the skirting board where it meets the wall. The blue paint above is actually deeper than this.
The wallpaper. Sprigs of Wisteria.
Now I have run out of the green I was using for my backstitch and will have to go through my spares for one similar. I have also managed to mislay the X-Stitch magazine (5 or so years old) - Mary Hickmott's New Stitches - which I had been saving to sew. There was a design called Heart of Dartmoor (Widecombe) which I think was on the cover. Can I find it here? No. I am gutted. I know I kept it and even where it was in the old house. I have found Mary Hickmott's Etsy shop where I can purchase it on-line for £9.60 but if I do that, I will of course find the magazine . . . Update - I did another search - no magazine. I thought, sod it, life is too short NOT to buy something which you know will give you great pleasure - one of my g.g. aunts was a schoolteacher in Victorian Widdicombe, which is why I was so keen to sew it.
I will try for a more exciting post soon . . .
