Just finished decorating our tempoary home ready for Christmas, and its looking delightfully homely and festive at the moment!! Which is pleasing on these dark dull evenings!
Derek and I went over to our "proper home" today to pick up the Christmas tree and other deccies from our loft, but we had to buy some new step-ladders as our old ones have oddly gone missing during the re-fit, which was a bit of a pain. The house is dreadfully cold and un-lived in, but the proper work does not begin untill next week...we have decided on our new, designer, fitted bedroom from top company, Hammonds. We had a 3 hour design meeting with our personal designer last week and have come up with some lovely designes which even includes glass display shelving for my Troika pottery, and Brenda Price dolls, and 21 Swartzki solid crystal handles!! the suite its self is in brilliant white solid wood with built in bed and bedside cabinates, and even inculdes a 40 inch flat screen wall mounted TV!!! Crikey I will never get out of bed!!!!!! All the decorating will be a pale sky blue with white ceiling and stylish ceiling fan. Hammonds only do the bedroom, however so we have decided to get our own people in for the two bathrooms, one of which (upstairs) will have a jucczi style corner bath with 21 jets in pure white!! I shall never get out of the bath either!!! and Greecian style tyles and wall fittings! Also we are having the bathroom extended slightly!! Derek has suggested we decorate ourselves down stairs, but I have not had a paintbrush in my hands for 20 years!! so goodness knows what that will look like!! But I am not sure what to do about my fish as I dont want them to suffer from paint fumes!! Anyway we dont expect to be back in our proper home untill mid January.
Ok...so now for our tempary home! Well I have strings of blue crystal ball lights in the window, with Dereks fiber-optic "Christmas village" on the sill. I have 4 foot fairy-lighted twigs in a £300 Toika pot next to the TV, my red "stockings!" which are very styalised, black fibre optic tree, some vintage decorations, and our old small nativity scene on the coffee table, lit by tea lights....and I have even wrapped mum's present (first of many!!!) Goodness knows what I am going to get Derek, he seems to have everything, and never gives me any hint of what he would like making it doubley hard!! He enjoys games and puzzels, so useually they form part of his present. Fortunatly after 16 years together, he knows my tastes well!!! so I may recieve anything from Dr Who to anything to do with Tudor history....maybe some delicate and classy night things!! (if I hint hard enough) LOL!!!!

............OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have just turned around to see Derek watching weakest link.......and he is wearing felt Reindeer antlers with bells on, ON HIS HEAD!!!!!!! I bought them for Sirius!!! (piccies coming soon)

Good grief....and I think I am bonkers!! LOL!!

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