Prosperous & Creative Soul Year 4

jwil

Glad the driveway is resolved and the asbestos removed.

skint_spice

Good to hear you are feeling more positive today.

savingholmes

Thanks Jwil & Skint

Photo from last week


I have asked to close another CC. I've updated my £ today. My other achievements were having a shower, doing one lot of washing and resting...

Hope you are safe and warm.

KajiKita

All safe and warm here 😊

Those tree reindeer are funny! 😊

Well done on the CC tidying and the £cial updating 😊 I hope you slept well. 

KK

CCW007

Sounds like good self-care.

beanielou

Loving the tree reindeer. 

mark55man

Love the Christmas trees

LadyWithAPlan

Loving the reindeer! 

Glad you got the drive redone and asbestos sorted 

ouch on the re-plastering etc - I actually learnt to re plaster at that diy school - it’s quite fun but it is quite tiring as you need to do in a batch - so may be too hard physically for you 

reading your ongoing  list of to fix around the house is a little concerning ! The garden sounds amazing though now and I look forward to summer pics in bloom 

savingholmes

Thanks CCW, Beanie, LWAP, Mark and KK

I didn't paint the front room or hall at the weekend. The tub of paint got buried somewhere under all the chaos (of displaced stuff) and I just felt too exhausted. I found an extremely old soil aerator for £5 at the reuse shop - which will be great for getting the job done but is probably a bit lethal so may have to give it a cover. I also bought a couple of small mirrors at £5 each and some stuff for next weekend's family get together. 

The builders used some of my nice plant pots to make concrete - and left them like that... says it all really about how they finished up!! I don't think they would win awards for the tarmac - but hopefully it will last okay. It's better than it was. Much safer than it was. I may PM some photos once I've got things where I want them but don't want to be too identifiable on an open diary.

I have done some shed and front fence painting today. I'm still debating what colour to paint my new raised beds - or whether to leave them natural coloured but still protected. The rest is a dark grey - and the pine type colour bounces some light into the space and I like the contrast and texture currently. If you remember I originally painted my terraced concrete walls (behind them) dark grey though to make them recede and make the garden look bigger so it's a debate. 

My new floor is finished in the lounge - hallway still in progress. I rarely like things when they are first done though as I struggle with change so I'm still adjusting. I now have coir matting as you turn into the living room from the pocket sized entrance hall. That should help a lot with trapping dirt etc. The door still shut after which was a relief. DD and her BF are coming over later to help get things back where they belong. I'm planning to try and 'edit' though and put some cupboards that were in the main parts of the house - into the hall understairs cupboard instead etc. Then see what I'm left with. My back art area feels over-full - so I want to resolve that before people come at the weekend. 

I'm planning to bring my new turquoise chair down into the lounge (after I've done any painting) and start with it and the new sage green power 3 seater sofa and then decide what else to add back in. I need something for shoes though so that's not optional - but debating going back to a bookcase rather than a 4 cube unit for that. Will only know once I can physically play around with stuff. 

TallGirl

Sounds lovely how the final lounge will be you will get there eventually. As for painting the raised beds I did my new wood in a clear coat as I like the light colour. I find grey a bit drab in winter especially and by doing the clear coat you cannot see when they need painting or if they need painting where as painted stuff always shows.