Wallpaper

I think my New Years resolution should have been to prioritize, I have a heap of projects on the go and not one of them is finished.  I seem to jump from one thing to another and accomplish nothing.  Ok to start you know that I have repainted my youngest daughters room and have been promising to show you the reveal but unfortunately it's still not finished.  This is due to the fact that the furniture is half way painted and she does not want it all put together until she is not sharing the room with her sister.  This meant I had to start on the other bedroom which I thought would be a bit of a challenge but not nearly as hard as it's been.

Two weeks I have been working on this room and it's a mess.  Here is the before I started photo,

That's right blue walls and green polka dots, whoever lived in this house had absolutely no style.  You may think this would be an easy fix but wait.... they painted this over wallpaper that was starting to peel, so I hired a wallpaper steamer thinking this would be a weekend job, the steamer didn't work at all because it could not penetrate the paint, so for the last two weeks I have been stripping a little section at a time with  good old fabric softener and water.  The room looks like a disaster and to make matters worse whoever applied the wallpaper did it to unsealed walls which means that the paper on the plasterboard is coming off with the wallpaper.  At this point with the mess the walls are in I'm thinking that I may have to wallpaper the walls again, this is the room half way through.

Any suggestions!

Say A Prayer

This is just a short post today to ask all of you out in blog land to say a prayer for the people in Queensland who have lost everything in devastating floods. I was talking to my Dad last night and he was telling how bad it is. I went here this morning and was shocked to see just how much damage they have sustained.

I think this photo sums up what Australians are all about

Image courtesy of The courier Mail

If you could also share a prayer for the people in Lake Clifton Western Australia as they are battling a bush fire that was started by an arsonist.  I believe from the news reports that four homes have already been destroyed.

I find myself sitting here being very thankful that I am only facing a day of snow.

A New Year

I know I have been missing in action since before Christmas but having the girls and Mr ASL home it was hard to get any time to myself. They respectively went back to school and work yesterday so having spent most of the day getting the house back into order I decided today was going to be for me.

So as I type this I'm still in my PJ's at 1.30pm, I have spent most of the morning figuring out my new sewing machine which was a Christmas present. I bought some cheap cotton last week so that I could practice as unfortunately I did not inherit my mum's gift of sewing. I have managed to complete my first cushion cover which will be going into Cailin's room once it is finished.

On that note, I know I promised "After" pics and will post them soon, I have collected most of the accessories but I just need to come up with something to cover up the ugly power panel. If anyone has suggestions please feel free to let me know. I was contemplating just putting up a big cork board but I'm not sure how it will look being that it's not centred to wall and very close to the window.

Maybe something like this one over at Made By Girl

Well I had better get my butt into gear as it's nearly 2pm and I have to get ready to pick the girls up from school.

Have a great day.