Time to start back again

September 21, 2015

I knew it was a long time since my last post but I didn't realise it was quite so long. It has been a long  and "interesting" year, but hopefully times will now prove slightly less challenging and I can get back  to renovations of the house and myself.

I did get up at 6.30 this morning and set out for an hour long walk along the bike path. I was supposed to lose 5 kilograms last year but instead I gained 5. So now I need to lose 10. Well off to a good start I hope. It certainly charged up my batteries and I reluctantly have to admit that I do feel better.

Put through 3 loads of washing. While that was going on I watched the French news on SBS, then knitted up almost half another square for the rugs for Knitting for Brisbane's Needy folk. Just need to relearn how to crochet them together. Mopped out the litres of water which leaked into T's car during the latest rain. Then, wonder of wonders felt the time had come to resume the house renovations. I had put off doing this for some time as I was feeling very discouraged and wondered if I really should just write the entire project off and dig out the kit from the spare room to commence an entirely new house.

While I was working on the house last year I had taken it out to the front deck where it is cool in summer and there is plenty of room to work in. The big draw back is that it is open to the air with a very unfortunate result. At the end of the summer the house looked like this.

It looked more like the haunted and derelict house that it is at the moment but is not the look I was aiming for. Would be great for Halloween though.  To say I was discouraged would be to put it mildly. Small wonder that I wheeled it away to an obscure corner, threw a rug over it and attempted to put it out of my mind. However going back to BMEA this year and then finally getting to the Open Day yesterday where I got some items for the kitchen and two lights for the lounge room perked up my interest again.

And now today with this surge of energy I got to work. I have at least made a start on it. Great stuff that Ajax spray and wipe.

So, an hour or two later and I think I have made a fair start to recovering it. I may allow myself to have little rest now and retire to to a little more on the squares for the rug. But now I know that I will get on with this project and with my self renovation. One day soon the kitchen in the little house will look something like this

Well not exactly but this gives an idea of the colour scheme planned and the rug has inspired me so I will make one like it. I will paint the little kitchen chairs I made at the last meeting this lovely blue and hunt through my box of fat quarters for suitable blue fabric for the windows. So off for my relaxing afternoon and it will not be so long between posts now. I promise you and myself. A bientot, mes amis.