Happy Days

2:35 AM | Labels: Garden, Home, Painting.

Getting up each morning I have hardly wanted to pull back the curtains just in case the sun was not there.

Waking up to blue sky and hot sun has been so good.

The garden has never looked so happy.

The house is bright and cheery too.

Little projects have almost been completed.

Like my newly painted cupboard, which I have given a little distressing.

The nursery was re-painted, just waiting for the wall to wall high shelf to be put up for the book collection and a few more toys to display.

If you look closely you will see the pretty SLEEP bunting hanging on the wall where the shelf will be.

I asked Caroline to make it for me, I am so pleased with it.

I was able to choose the materials for the letters which was great.

Sleep seemed like the perfect word to hang above the cot!

I have not hung it properly yet,

I need the shelf up and then I can hang the SLEEP bunting directly above the cot and under the shelf.

Stanley's shelf was painted with F&B Cornforth.

I must stick the S to the wall before it bonks someone on the head.

FSC are Freddie's initials.

The boys love this room.

I think it must feel like a little Aladdin's Cave when they come to stay.

Johanna's Dolls House was brought down from the loft.

I am pleased I kept some of my children's old toys.

Katie & Kevin the twin bunnies were knitted so beautifully by Lisa

It is so nice to have some lovely things to look at and hold, made by some very talented Blogger's.

I have chosen what I thought were calming colours for the Nursery walls and paintwork.

I have added colour with the books, vintage prints and toys.

You may be able to just see a bit of the frame of a vintage doll's pram.
My clever hubby made the built-in cupboard for me where there was an alcove, next to the chimney breast.

Not being a lover of built in! but I needed to fill the gap as much as possible.
So lots of much needed storage space.
I want to change the handles...he picked them!
I would prefer Pewter to match the door handle.
And that is my chair where I can sit and keep eye!

Little dress still waiting for a new owner!

Three little Terriers.
Which I bought from a little shop in Burford, North Cotswolds.
One of my Hearts, which is in fact a key holder for the window locks.
I kept losing these little keys so attaching them to Hearts made the Hearts very practical as well as pretty.

Lovely Old Golly.
I always lo.ed Golly as a child.
It seems we are not allowed to love him anymore! he has almost disappeared.
The pretty little Lucy Attwell postcard
I bought from Louise
I think it was just meant for me, and Guy!

My old Enid Blyton books and Little Ted who came to infant school with me everyday.
And one of Johanna's Beatrice Potter toys which she collected.

So Nursery almost done.
I need a little more Cabbages & Roses Hatley to make a cot quilt and cushions for the bed.

But before I go I must tell you about a film I watched recently about

Frida Kahlo

I was not looking forward to this that much, I have joined Love Film so needed to choose quite a few films for my list.

But, what an interesting story it was.

I enjoyed it so much I watched it again the following morning as I did the ironing.

The is the corset that she wore to try and correct her posture.

She painted her cast, one of a few, as she lay in her bed.

After watching her life story I went to Amazon to buy the book of paintings, her Journal and Biography.

This is a copy of her journal with translations in the back.

Her painting are intriguing, a little scary sometimes.
Her life was sad really.
But she lived it to the full.
I find her life story so very interesting and colourful, like her painting' s.
What a courageous Woman she was.
She suffered Polio as a small child and a horrific road accident as a teenager.
So she was forced to teach herself to walk again twice!