Monday, 20 October 2008
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Busy Busy Busy!
Yes, I haven't been posting to the blog in a while because I've been busy. You've all heard that before. It's getting down right cold here. On Wednesday the high for the day is 47 (degrees Farenheit). Brrrrrr! But that has nothing to do with what I have been busy doing.
On the knitting front there has not been much to show. I did finish off a pair of wool socks for Gabe in a week. Not bad huh! But I have still not finished my skirt I have been working on since the drive out to NY. Or the skirt I still need to finish up for my neice - all it needs is an elastic band! DH is still waiting on a wool cap and DD is now asking for leg warmers. I need to get crackin!!! But before any of that stuff can get done, I need to work on DS's Halloween costume. Here are the socks I finished for Gabe, they have already been worn and washed twice since they came off the needles.
But clearly that hasn't taken me THAT long to do, so what else has been taking up our time?? Well, we have been working on our dining room for quite a while. Pretty much since we moved in almost 4 months ago. This project has taken forever to complete. And it's pretty much done. I still need to get a rug for the room, I haven't found the perfect one yet! And maybe some artwork on the walls although DH doesn't really want to add that yet. I don't think he wants to mess up the beautiful job he did on the wallpaper. I don't blame him for feeling that way. We bought the light fixture from Restoration Hardware and paid more than we wanted to on it. I just couldn't find this fixture anywhere else. I fell in love with it and couldn't imagine a different one in it's place. Luckily we had enough points on our credit card for a gift certificate there so we didn't pay as much for it as we could have had to. But after we installed the light and unwrapped the shade, we found that the shade is pretty beat up. They are going to send us a new one but I couldn't wait to get pictures up to show you what we have done. So please imagine the light does not look like someone hit it with a baseball bat. So here are a few before pictures:
And here are a few after shots: 
I don't think you can see it in the before shots but the thing on the ceiling around the light fixture, was a blue-white but we painted it to match the chair rail and wainscotting (sp??) I am going to sew some roman shades once I finish Gabe's costume. I love our light fixture. I don't feel right calling it a chandelier because it doesn't seem to evoke that kind of I don't know... But it gives off this very soft and gentle light. Not dim but gentle. I LOVE IT!!! :) Oh, and that grey fabric in the middle of the dining room table is supposed to be my attempt to decorate for Halloween. It's torn gauze but I need to get a black tablecloth to go under it. We also steamed off all the wall paper in the living room and found two little notes under it. One said the name and address of the person who wallpapered the room as well as the date..May 1956 and then the other said re-papered by (name of person) their address and May 1985. I hope it doesn't take us until May to finish this room but that would be quite a coincidence!
I also sewed a duvet cover for our bed. I don't have pictures right now because I haven't made the bed yet but I will post them soon! It started to get REALLY cold at night and our old thin little cotton one was shredded in the move so I made this one out of fleece. A nice heavy fleece. It has been perfect to sleep under these last few nights. I bought the fleece when Joanne's was having a 50% off sale so it only cost me $30 to make it!
I love good deals!
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Comments (5)
You guys did a fantastic job - that looks gorgeous. hard to believe it's the same room. Had they papered OVER the wainscoting? That's horrific, excuse me for saying so. I LOVE that you brought it back out and the paper you chose is really beautiful.
Been wanting to call you - will try to next week. I'm crazy with the making of the costume and other holiday-ishy things. How do you make a duvet cover? I need to do that - ours is yellowed and threadbare. It is starting to tear in spots, so its end is nigh.
@beanmama - Hey my dear!!! Steve made the wainscoting. He did an absolutely beautiful job. I just felt the house needed it. It is a colonial after all!! I agonized over the paper for quite a while and when I saw this one I thought it was just perfect. Thank you for the complements. I can tell I really love it because I try to spend as much time as I can in the dining room now.
The duvet cover was so simple. I got the pattern out of a book titled Simple Sewing by Lotta Jansdotter. She breaks it down so beautifully. If you can't find the book close to you, I can e-mail it to you. Once you make one, you will be planning what you want to do for the next one. I find that I wait so long to buy a new one because they are so darn expensive. And there is really no reason for the high price. I am definately going to make more! :)
I love the socks.
I can't believe the walls were only papered twice in 52 years!!!
I like the new one, though.
Hey, did you leave a note under your wallpaper? :) I think that's kind of a neat idea.
Steve MADE the wainscoting? That's flabbergasting. Wow. I humbly bow before him. Suddenly socks seem so unworthy.
@beanmama - I wish we had left a note under our paper but we didn't find the other notes until after we had finished.
The wainscoting was not as bad as we thought it would be to do. When you have the right tools, it makes all the difference. We were able to borrow the tools from a friend that is a carpenter.