Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 2

Pyxis

calleyw wrote: »

Fly Baby,

I have a old china cabinet that I display all my toy VW's in and would love to revamp it.

Not really sure how. I would love to hear your tips.

Yours

Calley

There's a programme on daytime telly all about getting stuff from the tip and turning it into pieces that resell for silly money! (London!) but some of the tips are quite good.

Now, what was it called................

onomatopoeia99

codemonkey wrote: »

I may club him to death with a lamp.

May be more effective than a stapler, anyway

I'm in agreement about avoiding magnolia, although I did my hallway in something similar ("natural calico", which is the expensive word for magnolia) due to lack of natural light and just painted the shade for the wall light in pillar box red for contrast.

My new kitchen I painted a deep purple colour, absolutely no messing around with a neutral shade there. Bold colours can be really effective (although they can also be really awful, I've had a disaster or two that have needed to be whitewashed before starting again).

Waves_and_Smiles

My entire flat is magnolia, help me. We can decorate but I have no hope of doing it and WaSp can't stretch anymore with his back problems. The flat so needs to be decorated, we have lived here for 8 years now and the paint job was bad to start with, a lot has faded and you can see terribly bad plastering and cracks in walls.

Oh dear, Flybaby do forgive me for giggling. My acid reflux can make me projectile vomit and it is out of nowhere. I may have a slight burning feeling in my throat but that's all, then suddenly it's everywhere with no warning whatsoever. WaSp is never impressed because he is one of these people who vomits when someone else does so we both end up doing it!

Birdie85

I used to be the type who'd heave at the hint of someone being sick (DH is like that too) but (un)fortunately we've had to get over it with DS and his magic projectile vomiting! DH has never been so pleased with himself as the time he caught puke in his hands and just cleaned up and carried on like nothing horrific had just happened!

As for wall colours, our (owned) flat is varying shades of cream ('Soft Gold' and 'Natural Calico' etc) with only 1 feature wall which is still mainly cream but with pale blue flowers - and I put it up whilst DH was at work as I knew he would have a problem with it! DH is oddly colour-phobic; I think it comes from when he lived with his Mum and she was always painting the rooms in whatever colour she liked the most that day! I'm letting it go for now but when we move to a more permanent feeling home I'll be breaking out the colour charts!

Hope you're OK Faerielight ((hugs))

MU - love the dress, the hair and the boobs!

Pyxis

I've got colour everywhere! I'm colour mad!

To be fair, there is logic to it! For my hall and landing etc. I bought a lovely William Morris wallpaper, and I used the colours in it for each room. The greens I matched to paint for the living-room, and other colours of pale blue, darker blue, salmon-pink, buttercream etc. are used in other rooms, that lead off the hall or landing.

The only room whose colour doesn't feature in the wallpaper is the bathroom, which is a particular shade of lilac.......a shade that I saw in the Rest Zone of the Millenium Dome on one if my many visits during 2000, a shade that produced a wash of relaxation over me when it came round on the spectrum. That, I said to myself, is the shade for relaxing in the bath!

Perhaps that's the answer to choosing colours. Find a wallpaper, or a painting or a piece of artwork, or an elaborate cushion, etc, that will be prominent in the room, and work the colours from that.
Get loads of samples, too, and put them on each wall......different walls reflect the light in different ways, and colours can look very different on other walls, and other times of day, etc. Make sure you see the samples in daylight and artificial light!
People think I have two shades of lilac in my bathroom, but I haven't! It's the different wall and ceiling angles that give that impression, plus the North light!

I wanted a particular shade of not completely white for one ceiling, so that the white cornice would stand out. It took me 12 samples and three weeks to decide which I should get! White is the most difficult colour to choose! Colour colours are much easier!


Ps.. Penguin about vomit. It's funny haha really, but might make some people feel ill!
Little Sod should prove to be quite useful in mopping up stray bits of it! I know I know, revolting! But can have its uses, believe you me!
End penguin

Wellyboots6

Health visitor wound me up.

Her: So, how are you feeding little one?
Me: Oh !!!!, should I be feeding her?!

Well, that's how it went in my head anyway! So sick of being asked about it!

Flybaby

lmao - really??!?!?!?! Do dogs do that???? giggle - I am not a dog person so have no idea.


My walls might be white, but there is still much colour - so my playroom/library/junk room/spare room is actually bright green - I have a big bit of bright green carpet and made curtains from funky green fabric and the windows are the length of the room - so it is very distinctly bright green. Bedroom has purple curtains- so that is purple..........
Hubby decorated the small bedroom with duck egg green wallpaper on one wall while I was away one weekend so that room is duck egg blue - hubby is a graphic designer so he is not in agreement with my way of doing things but I he knows that if he wants to put the effort in - he can do anything he likes...............guess what..........walls remain white!!!! lol.


I also have only white sheets etc and only blue towels for the bathroom and duck egg blue for the guests. It means there is no faffing about picking out a new set for the bed - just grab the next on the pile and same with towels and there are easier to wash as no colour sorting required - all bed sheets in together and all towels in together........ yes........... I have been accused of having aspergic/autistic style systems before..............but it makes sense to me......simple and easy. I do the same with clothes - if I find something that fits well - I buy three in black and three in white and if they have it in green, three of them as well. I buy green, black and white. I am not fussed about how I look as long as I am clean and presentable so I prefer the easy route. I buy green as I have olive skin and green eyes and I know green looks good on me - and it makes the hell of clothes shopping so much easier to only have to look at green and black stuff!!!! ( Bear in mind I probably go clothes shopping about once a year when I absolutely have to!!!) lmao at myself - not sure if you are all going to think I am nuts or not...........I just like to take the stress out of life wherever possible and remove having to make silly decisions.


{squishes to all} I am running around like a loon hiding the carp in cupboards etc as we have unexpected FIL visit tonight.......

calleyw

fly here is a picture can do a better one if needed.



I got some wall paper for the back.

Yours

Calley

Pyxis

Don't worry, Katy. For all their blathering, they only want you and Escapette to do well, and are there to help.

I had a health visitor who seemed to be an aged, dour thing, but she had a heart of gold really. A lot of my apprehension of her was due to me feeling so grot! The slightest thing that could be remotely perceived as criticism, (which of course it wasn't, it was just me being vulnerable and feeling useless), would set me off in floods.

They are soooo used to this....they see women with churned-up hormones every single day! Women who think they don't know what they're doing, who have no confidence in their ability to mother.
Believe me, even the ones who look as if they are on top of everything and getting on famously, well, it's all an act! Either that, or they have a full complement of nursery staff! :rotfl:

calleyw

My afternoon tea with my mum went down very well.

Well apart from the what we thought was a tomato sandwich turned out to be smoked salmon lol!!!

We did not eat all of it. Not that there was a huge amount. We got a box to bring the rest home with us.

Then my mum choose 4 roses. And they were all half price so £20 for 4 roses. All nice looking roses. And colours she wanted as well.

After I dropped her off and went to leave she said she enjoyed it.

Mind you they had an amazing xmas display. Animated snowmen, penguins and a golden lab. They had 4 rooms full of decorations and each one had a theme with a display in it. Its was lovely just a shame its so early LOL!!!!

I saw a lovely gingerbread man advent calendar see here
but not at £20!!!!

Yours

Calley