Bedroom lined and glossed

Here are the same two views as yesterday, but with all the woodwork gloss painted and lining paper on the walls, evening poor plasterwork out and hiding all the dark plaster we had to use to cover the sunk wiring back in June. I realise that, mostly owing to the poor light yesterday (it seemed to be dark all day), the photos don't show a great deal of difference, but if you look closely at the ones from the last posting, you'll see a change, esp up near the cornicing and just next to the cupboard doors. At least it's been proper daylight today and you can see clearly again.

The top paper is going on this afternoon and Sir is finishing sanding down the woodwork in the hall where there are a LOT of doors! 5 rooms, 4 cupboard doors as well as the front door (which we'll do later on) and the skirting board. That little lot will be glossed tomorrow afternoon. Oh, how great it is to have friends who love decorating and hate to be idle over the hols!!!

I'm still pressing on with lesson planning, writing handouts etc and generally trying to keep house in amongst all this chaos. Not surprisingly, we're sleeping at mum's again! We plan to sleep here again on Monday night after the hall glosswork has had time to dry and air and the bedroom paper is dry etc. And Tim's just arrived for his afternoon's fun. No, really, he loves it!

No stitching to report on really except that I'm in the final stages of back-stitching on the blue-tit. I can't get into it at the mo, so don't expect much in the way of really interesting photos.

Bedroom in progress

Here's what it looked like before work started for the day:

<- This is the 'usual' view of the corner with my wardrobes - here seen primed and undercoated. It's yet to be glossed and yesterday we bought new door handles to make it look a little nicer than before. We also got the wallpaper, a self-coloured off-white stripe. I just wanted something simple and neutral so that we can go to town with bedding colours and jazz up the walls with pictures, i.e. the chaffinches one I did over the summer.=)

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This is what the room looks like from the door. It's so dark today that we have to have lights on all the time! Anyone would think it was within the Arctic Circle the amount of light we're getting right now!=(

As I type, Sir is sanding down woodwork in the hallway, Hongda is pasting lining paper and Tim is hanging said lining paper. Should get the bedroom glosswork done today as well. Another update will be posted tomorrow with how it looks at the start of the day, then another on Sunday with the bedroom essentially done. Huzzah!

Working, working....

As I type, Sir is madly sanding down the kitchen door frame. He's using his time off over the holiday period to get on with the decorating and a friend has been kind enough to come and help too. Another one due tomorrow as well, so we plan to get the entire bedroom finished, the glosswork done in the hall, living room (only 2 things there left now), and perhaps even the bathroom completed as well as the bathroom prepared for re-painting and at least the ceiling done of that. Things are moving ahead apace!

As for me, I'm spending the rest of the day on my secular work and probably much of tomorrow as well, so I can get well caught up and then relax a bit more for the rest of the hols. I've been ill for the last week, which has lost me a lot of time and productive stuff.=( So, I'll have some photos to post over the w/e, mostly of progress around the flat, but maybe even something on my needlework too. I must get that 2nd picture done soon for the bedroom!

Works in progress

Well, images wasn't working yeterday for me, so these are one day out of date, but.....

(Weds) Greetings and many thanks to all those who sent congratulations to DH on his graduation!=) Today I've got 2 WIP photos of very different kinds. The first is the blue tit cross stitch as I just haven't got back into the dog again yet.

The other is the current state of my side of the bedroom. We're hoping to get a lot of glosswork done over the holiday season, but I'm not holding my breath, you know!!!LOL!

Thursday am: I've now done a few leaves and the light brownish bits to the left of the bird as well. Hope to complete the XS today as I'm stuck home not feeling well, bit as I was planning on having a Stitch-a-thon today anyway, no probs!!!

I have also created a 'Sale or Trade' album on my Webshots, (link on the left, or click the here at the top of the blog), so have a look and see if you can use anything that's there. Most of things I've already done, so you can see the finished look in more detail in the relevant albums there.

ConGRADulations!


And here he is, Margaret Sherry's 'Clever' Cattitude. I just changed the background colour and simplified it to half stitches instead of whole crosses, (mostly owing to lack of time....).

<-And here's the back for those who like to see backs.=) Oh, my photos are up on the Helen M Stevens' site. This is the page showing all the students' galleries and mine are in the Selection Box one, first on the list and my two pieces are even there as the first two, so they show on the main list too! Can't think why when the other lady's are much more glam, using Pipers' super shiny silks and so on, but I'm dead pleased anyway.

Pearsalls got those missing threads to me extremely quickly, so a big thumbs up to them for service there. Also, decided not to stitch the other card, but to do a papercraft one as I just don't have time and all this pressure to get stuff stitched to tight deadlines is too much.