Yesterday afternoon both Bella and Lily left to spend a couple of days with my parents. So that I could give up my wonderful, much, much loved studio and turn it in to a room for the girls to share.
Oh the horror.
All is not completely lost though. I do get Bella's old room as my studio and we do get to reclaim our bedroom. But seriously. The horror!
I spent most of yesterday clearing and cleaning and sorting all of Bella's toys and moving them into my studio, so that I could spend all of today papering the walls of my new studio and filling them then painting them, then painting them again.
I also spent most of the day trying to decide whether I wanted the studio to be grey or white and whether I could splash out on one extravagance (yes!).
Tomorrow a new carpet's being laid and then we have the fun of trying to fit my old studio in to my new studio. Followed swiftly by painting and papering the girl's new room and trying to get it fit for occupancy by saturday afternoon.
The pain of the swap over has been largely diluted by the fact that a couple of weeks ago we discovered a huge damp patch over half of Bella's wall (it had been hidden behind cupboards), that has definitely been a factor in how bad both her skin and her breathing have been. Since then she's been sleeping in my bed and Jim's been on the sofa. So it's nice to feel that things are getting sorted and that by Monday we should all be in our own beds again.
Although Bella (who's been excited all year about getting her new bedroom) has already phoned me today to tell me that she wants her old bedroom back!
