Saturday 25 December 2010

Very productive

We had a late holiday again this year. This time we decided to stay home though. Which meant it was time for some more decorating. With the music room all finished, the computer room/ office was next in line.

A fair bit of holes needed to be filled in before we could start painting the walls in a French! white. Luckily hubby is really good at filling holes. I spent the time sourcing the perfect wall paper to feature on the walls next to the chimney breast.

After a couple of days of painting we were ready to tackle the wall papering. This was the first time we were wall papering without adult supervision. We decided to play it safe (actually we were slightly forced by the hand-painted wallpaper I bought) and started by putting up an underlining paper. By the time we started putting up the proper wall paper, we had got the hang of it.

After a bit of hard work we managed to get it all done in time for starting the Christmas celebrations. All left is sorting out the furnishing.













Apart from home decorating I also found time to sort through all my photos from Iceland. It was hard work to whittle them down to a manageable number, but I think I've almost managed it in the end.


Saturday 11 December 2010

Christmas is coming

So it has started out quite promising. It's only 11 December and so far we have already had more then 10 cm of snow. Mind you it is all gone now, but they are promising more in a week's time. Maybe this will be a white Christmas after all!

Well, not to be deterred by vanishing snow! Christmas decorations can always help to get you back into the Christmas mood. Said and done, down from the attic came the Christmas tree and all the boxes with decorations.

A bottle of wine later and with some 'smakrÄd' (~advice) from hubby, the tree and the lounge were decorated. Doesn't it look pretty???