Like White on Rice

Hello Dear Readers,

This weekend was the first one in a while where I didn't have to work either day at the sewing shop.  Instead, I made a long time dream of mine into a reality, painting the hallways and living room!!

We spent Saturday taping copies of the trashy paper Metro all along the base boards, washing the walls with sugar soap and painting the edges and trim with a brush.

Saturday came the fun part of actually laying on the white, acrylic paint.  Gone are the tire marks, gone are the weird scratches in the wall at hip height (?) gone are the randomly placed hooks and most of the nasty water stain from that leak.......

Yup, it was a true team effort as Chris, Patrick, Calvin and I all pitched in at varying stages and abilities.  There was a two for one sale at the B&Q (Home Depot for my American readers) so we have 20 liters of paint, enough probably to do the kitchen, bathroom and office as well, maybe even a little bit of our room.   That will have to wait a while because I think we are all painted out right now, but how wonderful it looks!

Friday night I went with some girlfriends from knitting and Chris and my brother to see the opening of Wildlife Photographer of the Year at the museum.   It is totally worth a go, and I know I'm going back a few more times on my lunch break, some of them you can hardly believe are real.

On the bus ride back I finished up this cheeky monkey, a pattern I got for free when at Michaels picking up some much needed ribbon for Cat's wedding.  I'm going to visit my good friends Molly and George this Friday-Sunday and I thought this would be a good gift for their baby Katelyn.

Here he is admiring the whiter than white wall near my brother's room - I think I'll go on the stairs now, sniff paint fumes and admire the snowy whiteness.....

More from Cambridge next weekend!

Cheerio!