Today being the day after the day after Christmas, I thought it only right that the children tidy up a bit...ooh they didn't like that too much! I decided it would be best if I led by example and did a bit of tidying up of my own - of course, that didn't last too long - no wonder my kids don't like tidying!
A year or so ago I bought a whole stack of bus blinds from a seller on eBay. I had been watching various "repurposing" shops (Pedlars and RE, for example) buying up bus blinds and selling them on, framed or otherwise repurposed. My blinds were never going to command the prices theirs sold for, as mine are from my local area, but I made a blind for my kitchen, I mounted a few others (you may recall "Leisure Centre" from a previous picture), which sold well...but I still had LOTS of blinds left. Let's just say I went a bit crazy when I bought them initially...
Anyway, part of my tidying up today involved cutting the letters out of some of the less "useable" blinds (they might be a bit crumpled or dirty) and these I put in a jar for future use. I sorted out the appropriate letters for the names of each of my kids, and the boys now have their names in bus letters stuck to their bunk beds. My daughter has her name stuck to her wall. A bit random, but that's how she liked it.
I hadn't had enough fun yet. So I did this:
Each letter was cut out individually and stuck down on excess black bus blind paper.
In this long shot you can see heaps of the stuff I've done over the past year - the pictures are train posters of time gone by, printed out and cut and stuck...then on the wash stand you can see some of my jam - I made some lovely sloe and blackberry jam the other night - it's to die for...there's a "bag bag" made in what I believe to be some William Morris pattern material (I could be wrong, so don't quote me on that), and finally, above the wash stand, is some of my "Christmas coloured" crochet bunting. The whole lot looks very pretty, I think!
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