Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

lostinrates

I actually love pn's all white rooms, and had them as a kid in hot places sometimes, but......I'd be having to clean my skirting boards every single day if I hasd pure brilliant white. And I can't stand it when it yellows with time.....same reason I won't white plastic showers etc...they fade to yellow.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Lir, have you seen the William Morris design "The Strawberry Thief?" There are a couple of colourways that may work with your scheme. I don't know if it is still done as an upholstery fabric mind, but I thought it would fit what you describe, as well as, in my head, tying in with the bird lamp. It's probably not what you are looking for, but its what I envisaged from my crazy woolly head. Here's a pic of it printed on a fine lawn, rather than upholsery fabric:

http://www.liberty.co.uk/pws/client/images/catalogue/products/aw02libe1040035f/large1/aw02libe1040035f.jpg

I think its super lateral thinking, but not right for there....and also....I think I should keep birds out of the dining room, as we'll eat so many in there....we have a couple of dead bird pictures in there as it is. we keep finding things we like with birds on it..

and we have a weird thing going on here with rooms melting into one another...so the new room is probably going to have crazy birdy chinoisery, and will lead into hall waywith birdy lamps. Hall way has purple(less scary than sounds, lets say grey for those sensitive to my e ccentricity) skirtings, which will leadinto the next room, from where the next room takes a similar green on the walls, but drops the [STRIKE]purple[/STRIKE] grey for the white colour (also used in both rooms), and so on. The dining room wall colour is I think the furthest from green and is described as ''verdant'' so still a bit green.

lostinrates

pastures, kirsty is making silver jewllery on channel four, the silverclay she is using might work well with your shells and beachcombing stuff.

michaels

We had shutters when I was growing up and I seem to remember one of my chorse was closing them at dusk every night/opening them in the mornings. There were also curtains without which the large wooden floor with rugs rooms would have been very echoy.

The curtains were velvet on the north east side and more floral / lineny on the warmer south west side.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

pastures, kirsty is making silver jewllery on channel four, the silverclay she is using might work well with your shells and beachcombing stuff.

I saw that.... and I disbelieved their estimate of 10grams to make that key, I'm sure it'd take more than that; when I did a class I used 7grams and made some dinky/miniscule things.

In the programme, the price for 10grams was quoted as £20, it's closer to £35 now, but you'd most likely buy it in a 25gram pack at £70.

Using the kiln is one thing.... but not many people happen to have a kiln kicking about - and in classes it's more usual to use a torch to fire the piece.

K's key certainly wasn't the chosen one.... what she should have done is to start again, rather than trying to fix the one she had. The programme were paying after alll..... it's possible to re-use the clay once it's dried and broken like that, it just needs to be re-hydrated, but that'd not be an option for the time/skill she had available. Should have just cracked open another packet and had another go.

I did actually have a second class booked - and I'd spent three whole days driving all over the county gathering together my ideas and textures and items for moulds.... only to have the class cancelled the day before it ran because I was the only one booked on it .... which was doubly annoying as I was booked on that course as they told me the previous one had been full.

Kind of gone off the idea of silver clay these days, it has its place/uses, but I'm not really "in the zone" for dealing with it, but I know it's out there and how to use it .... and at some future point (when I have my own workshop) I'll be cracking open some packs with some specific items in mind.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

We had shutters when I was growing up and I seem to remember one of my chorse was closing them at dusk every night/opening them in the mornings. There were also curtains without which the large wooden floor with rugs rooms would have been very echoy.

The curtains were velvet on the north east side and more floral / lineny on the warmer south west side.

what a nice chore to be given.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

what a nice chore to be given.

It could, of course, only happen in a posh house

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

It could, of course, only happen in a posh house

well...in uk perhaps, but where I grew up, and where dh did, shutters are on even studio flats. in other hourses here curtains are surely the equivalent....and a better chore if fewer to do!

neverdespairgirl

vivatifosi wrote: »

Lir, have you seen the William Morris design "The Strawberry Thief?"

It's a gorgeous material, that. My parents have it for curtains in their living room and their sitting room in London.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Kind of gone off the idea of silver clay these days, it has its place/uses, but I'm not really "in the zone" for dealing with it, but I know it's out there and how to use it .... and at some future point (when I have my own workshop) I'll be cracking open some packs with some specific items in mind.

You can fire it on a gas stove, too.