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kazwookie

Thinking of you, glad the snowdrops are doing well. x

Cheery_Daff

Hugs Redo, birthdays must be especially hard. Glad the snowdrops have settled in nicely xx

Humdinger1

Darling @redofromstart, sending hugs.  Love, like starlight, never dies.  It's a stern fact that no energy is ever lost; physics tells us that it is converted to a different form of energy. I hope you feel surrounded by love as this will be coming from Mr Redo.  Humdinger xx 

jwil

Glad the weekend went well, it sounds like a lovely memorial for Mr Redo.  Sending thoughts for yesterday as well.

KeepOnKnitting

Somewhat belated hugs. Your hillwalking and champagne sounds like a fantastic memorial.

I hope the sun is shining on you today.

redofromstart

Thank you everyone - really very much appreciated, even more so on a rather wobbly week.  

The bright spot of yesterday was that my kind and generous (cheese sending) sister sent me a very lovely zinc planter full of narcissus minnow.  It is gorgeous and is a good contrast to the terracotta collection.  

Watty1

Wobbly weeks will come and go.   The love will always be there, even if Mr Redo is not physically here, the love remains.

The zinc planter sounds lovely

Sun_Addict

It’s still early days you’re entitled to any amount of wobbles. You’re doing amazingly well all things considered. I still think it’s flipping unfair that this happened. 

redofromstart

Thank you both. 

I have been watching old episodes of Sort Your Life Out for motivation. If anyone remembers the series two one with the young couple where he had ADHD and a gazillion unfinished projects, and £2k in cash that had been stashed round the house, well that was very familiar indeed. Anyway a reminder to myself that a bedroom should be a bedroom not a tool store, and that I need to have somewhere that is nice. I did do some clearing earlier on in the process but I went through again with a more critical eye. I think you stop seeing things after a few years, so I have been blind to the clutter. I also keep reminding myself that I don't have to live with things I don't particularly like. It's my bedroom, not a memorial.

The challenges are that given that I plan to move I don't want to invest a huge amount at this stage but the prospect of living with it as it is for 18 months fills me with dull resignation. The en suite to be is mostly plastered off but is incomplete and an eye sore. Both windows will be replaced in a few months so painting is fairly pointless although I am tempted just to give it a quick top up coat. 

I've started by giving it a good clean, washing walls and so on and removing the dust bunnies from under the bed. 

I've recovered the horrid headboard with some teal coloured upholstery velvet from his craft stash.  It was an ugly old shell shaped brown velvet, which I had pinned a sheet over years ago as a temporary solution. I've now covered it with curtain liner, stapled on, and then the nice velvet and stapled on. It looks much better and will do till we move - a free solution using existing materials. 

The bedside tables didn't remotely match. A quick search of Facebook market place got me two small sets of oak drawers for £50. They have had a good clean, and the drawers lined. I had cleared out the divan drawers and most of the bedside cabinet stuff in the last round. I had also found some nice teal coloured lamps that I had bargain bought ages ago, so I now have matching bedside tables and lamps like a grown up. 

It looks so much better so it was a good use of a day. 

daisy_1571

Bedroom sanctuary sounds like a very good investment of time and £50

Daisy xx