Anyway, we decided that the best use of that week, would be to actually start turning the spare (read - store) room into something that will eventually be turned into spud's room. This involved taking apart the large desk from the main bedroom and putting it in the garage and moving all of the bookcase and shelves from the spare room and putting them in the main bedroom.
Everything that was in all these various pieces of furniture was transferred to either the bin, charity shop or the loft. We were left with the room as you can see below:-
Please note: I was under a press embargo not to show any of these picture until Helen was finished. Hence while it's taken a few weeks for this post to appear.
As always the first argument was colour. What colour to paint the walls? Helen wanted Yellow, I thought Green would be quite good and something different. There were lots of conversations and the wall became a Polka dot of tester colours. Eventually we agreed to diagree and decided to do both as you can see. We were originally worried about the green as it was quite bright, when it originally went on, but dried to a nice light shade.
This is the part where my artistic ability finishes. However Helen's ability is much greater than mine, I suspect developed over the years of drawing on walls and windows to please the kids at nursery. So on the Yellow walls Helen decided to draw characters from Charlie Ark. A work in progress is shown below.
The finished Article - Flo (Cow)
Ace (Bear)
Zeep (Zebra)
As you can see the curtains are still a work in progress. We may have set ourselves quite a task finding material for matching curtains. My contribution can be seen below. What you can actually see there used to be the top of the desk from the main bedroom, which I've turned on it's side and turned into a small shelving unit. It now holds all of the small cuddley toys that we are starting to collect.
From Top to bottom: Bing Bong Bunny, Polly (named after Helen's Uncles recently deceased Border Collie), an as yet unnamed Elephant and an as yet unnamed Zebra.
Finally we come to the first piece of actual baby related furniture to make it into the room. This is a baby changing stand that we bought from Ikea. We didn't set out to buy it (those are probably going to be my last words) we'd just gone to Ikea for some boxes. We saw one of these on our way round, thought it was nice but at £50!!!!! Way too expensive for us. So we went to the checkouts with our boxes and past one of these in the "Bargain Corner". We couldn't find any damage on it, in fact the only thing we could see was the pull tabs were missing on the zips. When we enquired about the price we were told we could have it for £25. I keep waiting to hear the sirens as the police turn up.
I keep thinking that 6 months is still plenty of time and yet when I think how quick the last 2 months has gone (since we found out), 6 months doesn't seem long enough!
Oh and tomorrow is scan Day!!!!!! Where did that come from?????
Thought for the day: Paper! Used for Sonnets, Novels, Symphonies and wiping your Arse!!
4 comments:
D'you know, I like the look of that room? Though I have to admit, my first thought on seeing what turned out to be a cow was, and no offence is meant to Helen here, "That's Eeyore." Maybe the characters just look similar... running away now! ;-)
Ikea has that effect. I'm going on Saturday. Who knows what I'll leave with?
Good to see the preparations getting along well.
Heehee, I thought of Eeyore too. I like the colour choices - both are good!
It's looking really good! Sorry I've not had time to reply until now [doh]. I can understand wanting to keep it under wraps until it was more finished!
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