lady_t_220

Wow, I've actually been quite busy today. I made a start on clearing out the junk from the front room upstairs, which wasn't as badly junkified as I thought.
Once I removed the miscelaneous lamps, fans, heaters and industrial voltmeter (!!?) it was actually not too bad in there.
I had to move a load of grandad's old stuff (it had been his room till he was persuaded to move downstairs to prevent killing himself on the trip up and down) but that wasn't too ardous.
He'd comandeered a wardrobe still but it was filled with 20 bazillion plastic tubs, like the kind you get supermarket vanilla ice cream in, each one containing say... one tiny item.
My granny does not have the courage, it seems, to do anything about this, so I consolidated all the random items, threw out all the crap that he's not going to need, whether he admits it or not (6 old toothbrushes...? Why, man? Why??) and basically managed to stuff a whole wardrobe full of stuff into one medium sized stacker box.
'Nuff said really. :/ It can sit in the top-section of the unit and be ignored because he's never going to get around to using any of this stuff.

I'm having fun trying to persuade granny not to fill Kat's room with fussy, floral nicknacks right now though.
The sheets (my choice, to put a crimp on the chintz) are a nice lilac and white affair with Japanese-esque floofy bits on them. They're rather pleasant IMHO, and break up the, as yet, still rather fussy decor.
I'll be stealthily removing a couple of the rugs in a day or so, and maybe attacking the chest of drawers with some white paint. (It's pink with pink rosebuds on with pink accents and pink right now... apparently to counterpoint the cream-ish wallspaper with the textured flowers on and the green carpet with the beige and pink floral rug, god help me, I can't take all this floral!!)
So... gimmie a fortnight and we'll have something liveable.
I want to take down the 2 seriously butt-ugly prints from that room too. One seascape and one forest scene that just sort of scream Kinkade but crappier. They're fucking HUGE though, the seascape especially. It's a good 4' wide, y'know...
They're a bone of contention right now, along with all the nicknacks and ornaments and things granny wants to scatter around to make the place look *cozy*. I'd rather take them down on the assumption that Kat's probably got enough of her OWN bits and pieces to scatter around, she probably doesn't need a floral-pattern minature-footstool/jewlery case cluttering up the works.
I mean why pre-fill the space with all of our junk? Let her stick her own personality stamp on it, that's the only way you feel at home.
I'm right, right? You stay anywhere long enough you need to feel like you can spread your stuff around without worrying about someone else's decor, right?

Anyway, aside from all that, I posted the first battery of packages, as I mentioned already, I've been to town and back, picked up the bedsheets and a box of christmas cards and generally pottered.
Kinda' broke now till the weekend though. ;)
Oh and mum spoke to Tony (That's flat-headed Tony, from Lancashire, same place as 'ot-pot... also my college art tutor for those who didn't know) about the best way of getting some kind of print made of that A2 sketch.
He suggested finding a good copy-shop and getting a colour photocopy on high-quality paper, which is pretty much she tame thought I had. Now I just need to find somewhere round here that does A2 colour copies on 125gsm...

So to those peoples I said I'd try and get a print... I'm working on it.