NaokoSmith
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Nos da, MP, Tio
Bore da, HP! Are you going to go fishing?
The sun is shining and I'm deliberating whether to go to the beach. Tide is unfortunately high at 11.15 am, so it's not worth setting off for a bit. I am turning some laundry round in the machine and ignoring a huge pile of ironing.
I made scones this morning and had them hot - one with butter and Gentlemen's Relish , and the other with Philadelphia cream cheese and some home-made blackcurrant jam someone gave me. The rest of the scones I shall take to the beach for a picnic, together with a scotch egg from the butcher who makes them himself (and incredibly good they are too).
Now dahlinks, I am looking for some input into interior decorating decisions. The other day I went to the charity shop (thrift shop for American chums) and I found this set of tables which is absolutely perfect for serving afternoon tea on - as you can see it has wheels so you can wheel all the sandwiches-pickled-eggs-scotch-eggs-fruit-fruitcake-scones-jam-clotted-cream-and-biscuits round to everyone, and four little round tables which tuck neatly underneath it. I bought it for £5!!! I mean to paint it with 'chalky paint' which apparently is the right stuff for tables and chairs. Then I shall stick on decoupage pictures of jewels and other things from the FT Weekend 'How to Spend It' magazine, which I can't afford to buy and am just as happy to 'own' in cutout picture form.
You can get metallic paint to go under the chalky paint, and then you gently sandpaper or use a metal scourer to scratch some of the chalky paint off, giving the piece of furniture that 'distressed' antique sort of look. You can get silver or gold, and here are the chalky paint colours. Apparently there is sage green too, but the shop doesn't seem to do that one.
(The real life colours are of course nothing like these, but it gives you a bit of an idea.)
At first I thought of one of the lighter blues: duck egg (always love those slightly greenish blues: eau de nil etc), or powder blue (it would match my Jag E-Type when I eventually get one). However I feel that blue is a cold-ish colour and my living room gets very little direct sunlight, although it has a big picture window. I'm leaning towards the clotted cream colour (very suitable for afternoon tea tables!). I'm thinking I could put the silver paint under it rather than gold, because a) cream and gold is a bit CHAV-y, b) the silver will go better with the grey of the sofa.
What do you think?
I also picked up this snip (ho ho!) of a bargain in a local interior decor shop that looks so expensive I have never even bothered to go in it before now. I saw these square offcuts for 50p each! I plan to buy cheap cushions from the charity shop and sew these offcuts together to make covers for them.
Bore da, HP! Are you going to go fishing?
The sun is shining and I'm deliberating whether to go to the beach. Tide is unfortunately high at 11.15 am, so it's not worth setting off for a bit. I am turning some laundry round in the machine and ignoring a huge pile of ironing.
I made scones this morning and had them hot - one with butter and Gentlemen's Relish , and the other with Philadelphia cream cheese and some home-made blackcurrant jam someone gave me. The rest of the scones I shall take to the beach for a picnic, together with a scotch egg from the butcher who makes them himself (and incredibly good they are too).
Now dahlinks, I am looking for some input into interior decorating decisions. The other day I went to the charity shop (thrift shop for American chums) and I found this set of tables which is absolutely perfect for serving afternoon tea on - as you can see it has wheels so you can wheel all the sandwiches-pickled-eggs-scotch-eggs-fruit-fruitcake-scones-jam-clotted-cream-and-biscuits round to everyone, and four little round tables which tuck neatly underneath it. I bought it for £5!!! I mean to paint it with 'chalky paint' which apparently is the right stuff for tables and chairs. Then I shall stick on decoupage pictures of jewels and other things from the FT Weekend 'How to Spend It' magazine, which I can't afford to buy and am just as happy to 'own' in cutout picture form.
You can get metallic paint to go under the chalky paint, and then you gently sandpaper or use a metal scourer to scratch some of the chalky paint off, giving the piece of furniture that 'distressed' antique sort of look. You can get silver or gold, and here are the chalky paint colours. Apparently there is sage green too, but the shop doesn't seem to do that one.
(The real life colours are of course nothing like these, but it gives you a bit of an idea.)
At first I thought of one of the lighter blues: duck egg (always love those slightly greenish blues: eau de nil etc), or powder blue (it would match my Jag E-Type when I eventually get one). However I feel that blue is a cold-ish colour and my living room gets very little direct sunlight, although it has a big picture window. I'm leaning towards the clotted cream colour (very suitable for afternoon tea tables!). I'm thinking I could put the silver paint under it rather than gold, because a) cream and gold is a bit CHAV-y, b) the silver will go better with the grey of the sofa.
What do you think?
I also picked up this snip (ho ho!) of a bargain in a local interior decor shop that looks so expensive I have never even bothered to go in it before now. I saw these square offcuts for 50p each! I plan to buy cheap cushions from the charity shop and sew these offcuts together to make covers for them.
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