Dogs Dinner Decorating

I've been decorating!! I warned our landlord and hes very open minded... He knows I will put in back to neutral when (if ha ha) we leave, but in a bid to banish the beige I have started a rethink of the house in general. I'm struggling to find the right colour for the living room - it has to be right, a reasonably peaceful hue but not pale!!!

The dining/ kitchen area though is another kettle of fish. It a much darker space having the sun room tacked on - leaving only one window for light so it needs pops of colour and something to make it lively!!!

so.... taking inspiration from my recent college work and some of the designs I did for fabrics and wallpapers I have come up with a slightly refined version which now adorns our dining room... not everyone's cup of tea, kettle of fish but its our dogs dinner...

We live in rented accommodation and I'm loathe to spend much mulah on fancy wallpaper - so we have to be inventive and experimental - some hand rendered and photocopied pictures of mine on top of some bog standard cheap Wilkcos wallpaper and there we have totally bespoke wallpaper!!!

I carried the design onto the lampshades and hung this years framed scarf designs just to add even more colour! Its certainly colourful and adds some individuality to the house.. its definitely a little bit of slamitinRubystarrs style!! Living room next...

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Scotland part 2

The second half of the week continued in much the same vein. We had one rainy afternoon which was actually quite nice to be holed up in the house with the rain lashing the windows. It probably wasn't quite so nice for the two visitors that came on their bikes but they're tough cookies - and its only water- but I did feel sorry for them having to cycle six miles back down the track in the wind and rain, but given Scotland, it wasn't as bad as it could be.

Funchal

So after three days at sea we finally hit Funchal in Madeira. An escape from the ship, and I have to say it was very pleasant indeed. First of all the weather is really splendid. Especially when you know that everybody else in the UK is suffering grim storms and vile winds.. Over here it is between 22 and 25 degrees is really quite warm. Funchal is a pretty city. It's built on a hill it with lots of lovely white houses with stunning red roofs. In order to get the best of it we walked along the sea front until we got to the cable car and we took it up the hill. It was a really good ride much longer than we imagined and it's quite weird because it goes right through the town - completely over everybody's house... So not only do you get a lovely vista of the bay but you can view the beautiful rooftops and get to look in everybody's gardens and to look at their picnic sets.. clean washing nice plants... scratty backyards.... We got off th

ROCKS - in which I share the Hopetoun and Esperance pictures....

I'm about to post a load of pictures of rocks... look away if you are not interested...There are more but its faffy making them smaller to upload so I'm doing it a bit at a time... Enjoy mount Barren rocks on summit Mount Barren Views... Cave Point - unreachable cave Small reachable Cave scree to unreachable cave Frenchmans Peak Cave Frenchmans peak View Frenchmans Peak Summit Esperance Headland Boulders Esperance Headland with fisherman for scale Eperance other headland cave Esperance other headland...

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