Sometime during the morning hours, I just couldn't take watching tv about the hurricane or posting on the 'rack or reading. I had to get up and DO something.
So, with less than three days before I get company from out of town - I went into my powder room and pulled down the wallpaper border.
Now it looks so bad I have to pain the room.
While I'm at it I may as well finish sewing and put up that valance I've been meaning to put in the room, so I've got to go now and buy the trim I need before I can finish the valance.
At least I had already purchased the paint and the valance fabric, but I wasn't planning on demolishing the room until after my company left.
Oh well. Guess I better get busy.
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
Sometimes it's that nervous tension that helps us get the most done. I'd love to see pictures when you're finished!
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
I hope you get news soon, Belle. But in the meantime, better to be busy with a project ahead of schedule than to be sitting captive to the media kings.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Well, the wallpaper is down and the first coat of paint is on. Before I go to bed I've got to do the second coat and then wash out the brushes. Tomorrow I'll sew the valance together.
I'm doing something a little odd, I guess, at least I think so from the reaction I got at the fabric store. The fabric is almost a circus print - it has a lot of jester-type people riding horses. The background is a subtle toile, but the horses and clowns have fairly bright colors. I was asked three times in the fabric store if I was doing a little boys room. Um...no. I got strange looks when I said it's for a bathroom.
But I think it's cute, and this is my powder room that all the guests use when they're over, so I like the idea of it being a little fun and unexpected.
I couldn't find any artwork I liked or could afford, so I found some paper that had reproductions of old French postcards. I'm going to cut them out and make a collage and frame that. The colors are similar and one of the postcards has a carousel that looks like it's from the same era as the scenes on the fabric, so I think it will work.