I've got so much to show you but unfortunately the weather has been so bad that I haven't been able to take any photo's, so the interesting stuff will have to wait. Suffice to say, on Friday Jim and I went to the biggest Quilt Festival we have here in the UK and I bought a lot of lovely, lovely fabric (did I hear you say Liberty?? Mmmmm) and then I spent today unpacking boxes and boxes of my childhood belongings. I found my original topsy turvey doll and lots of Holly Hobby stuff and my dolls house and oh so much more. I even found my business card for the Maroon Hand Two Gang - remember that Grainne?
But as I said, no photo's yet, so I'm going to post pics of our latest WIP instead. A couple of weeks ago I suddenly decided that I had to put tongue and groove cladding up in our kitchen. I've always loved the way it looks when painted white and haven't liked our kitchen for ages. So we started by ripping off the dado rail (it wasn't original and wasn't put on properly) as it was at just the wrong height for the T&G.
The cladding is only going up as far as the dado was and then the wall above will be painted green.
It's probably going to take us weeks and weeks to finish, because we can't really do any of the work when Bella's around and of course I'm now completely knackered all the time.
I want it to look kind of Victorian coastal when it's finished (yes that is a style). The only problem is that we actually need to rip out the existing kitchen and completely redo it from the floor up, but we just can't afford it - especially as we now also need to create another bedroom too! So I'm hoping the the T&G refit will just give the room the lift it needs.
Other than that, I'm still finishing off a couple of things and also working on a very important quilt that needs to be finished asap, as I have a friend that could really do with being wrapped up and cuddled.
My morning sickness is totally bearable at the moment, but the tiredness really isn't. I keep wanting to start a project and then I realise that I just can't carry my rapidly expanding butt up the stairs to my studio. Ack.
Sorry for such a dull post. And yes I did say Liberty...
