OK, so don’t get excited. The craft fair was a total bust. I was a bit sad about it because I’d been so excited, but these things happen.
I was very proud of the way my stall looked. I went into this with my friend Lenka, who bakes beautiful cakes, and we were supposed to be sharing a stall, but when we arrived they’d given us an extra long pair of tables as someone had called in sick. Continue reading
After all I said I was going to get from my mum’s, we’ve decided not to have the wardrobes in the end. I think it’s overfacing Barry, who seems to have reached his limit on DIY for the year and is staging some kind of protest.
We really need to get cracking again – at least to finish off the last bits of the kitchen and living room, but going on holiday and eating out (almost) every night isn’t really conducive to pockets full of money to spend on picture frames.
Of our kitchen jobs still to do, we have the following left…
1. Sand and repaint the ceiling
2. Cut skirting boards to size and repaint
3. Fit skirting boards
4. Finish painting the kitchen walls
5. Finish sanding and fit the peninsula
6. Tile the kitchen walls
7. Paint the stairs wall, handrail and ceiling
8. Replace all of the switches with brushed silver ones
9. Get a condenser tumble dryer
The living room list’s not much better…
1. Sand and repaint wall and paint skirting boards
2. Paint the skirting boards and cut and fit the beading
3. Paint the kitchen/living room door (both sides) and the doorframe on the other side
4. Paint a radiator
5. And another one
6. Fit the strip thing between the kitchen and living room
7. Create the photo wall – finalise photos and buy frames and prints
8. Buy white drawers and baskets for the units
I need a lie down.
It’s difficult when we haven’t finished the living room, but are trying to get cracking with the kitchen as we’re under a bit of pressure as they’ve delivered the oven yesterday and are trying to deliver the units in two weeks. We still have ideas that we’re working on in the meantime for the living room, but they’re having to go on the back burner for a little while.
One idea we had was of having lots of photos across the green wall in the living room, under the spotlights. We liked the thought of having loads of images of friends and family, although I initially thought more order would be better. I’ve since been convinced that orientation and size doesn’t matter. I will put my foot down and say I want all the same frames though, to stop it looking too unruly. White wooden ones!
This idea then developed into a black and white theme. As white wood complements our new décor, I started thinking about how the photos would look inside the frames. I’ve spent my lunchtimes at work using Illustrator to turn colour images greyscale and I now have 37 to print! The selection may require some editing down and we’d need to decide which ones we wanted larger than others.
I didn’t want to put someone’s image up without asking, so this is one of me taken in the Maldives on our honeymoon five years ago. Not all of them are quite as artsy, but it gives you a feel for how it will look.
If anyone has any suggestions where one may procure dozens of reasonable wall frames, ranging from A4 down to standard photo sizes, please let me know! I’m willing to paint them, but I would like them all to look the same style.