6th - 12 December 2010

Although this blog has concentrated on the garden recently and all Dave's heroics out there, progress had continued indoors and, yay, we have some curtains! Well, we almost have some curtains, or to be precise we have curtains in six rooms now but only one of the pairs of curtains is finished! Still they all more or less perform their function and look pretty I think.

To facilitate this, half of the living room has been turned into a sewing room and I have an awesome sewing table, formerly the table tennis table, which amazingly is the perfect width for a roll of material and the perfect length for the ranchslider curtains.


The bathroom curtains are finished although the hems need pressing or resewing.

There is mystery with our bedroom curtains as the long ones somehow ended up shorter after I lengthened them, so I am still thinking about them. (And the colour is much nicer than it appears in these photos.)

The colour in the spare bedroom is just gorgeous ...

... and there is even a roman blind, a first for me.

Part of the renewed activity with the curtains was because of the imminent arrival of our nephew Alex, his girlfriend Tamara and niece Katie. We just had to keep them entertained and where better to start than to rediscover the flaxes!


Now that looks better!

And there was wood to split ...

... and an extra pair of hands or three were useful for getting the new shelter in the chook dome ...


... though of course Bold Wally had to make her mark!


Gotcha!!

And then they all went and so did the sun and at last we had some rain. But not before just about everwhere had turned quite brown.