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Feb. 27th, 2010
Dake A Raking
Feb. 27th, 2010 05:20 pm(Decorating, as Linnea said it, years ago).
One day, I will strip the woodchip from the walls, re-skim (actually, going on prior experience, re-plaster) what's underneath, and paint them up properly, basecoat, undercoat, topcoat and all. I'll choose colours for each room and buy the appropriate paint. There's a faint, faint possiblity that I'll even pay a professional to do the ceilings, which are... not aesthetically great.
But meanwhile I'll go on slapping paint on and brightening rooms up considerably using leftover paint from other people's decorating projects, and gluing dinosaurs over the top. I can make fairly large changes that way, even if it's not exactly what I would like.
And over time, Rob is less reluctant to view any decorating project as a precursor to months or years of living in half-done mess, worse than the original version, followed by days and days of fiddly boring painstaking labour, followed by not being supposed to touch or use the freshly fixed up area.
He's kind of right about it when it involves plastering, though. But I do wish we didn't have woodchip...
One day, I will strip the woodchip from the walls, re-skim (actually, going on prior experience, re-plaster) what's underneath, and paint them up properly, basecoat, undercoat, topcoat and all. I'll choose colours for each room and buy the appropriate paint. There's a faint, faint possiblity that I'll even pay a professional to do the ceilings, which are... not aesthetically great.
But meanwhile I'll go on slapping paint on and brightening rooms up considerably using leftover paint from other people's decorating projects, and gluing dinosaurs over the top. I can make fairly large changes that way, even if it's not exactly what I would like.
And over time, Rob is less reluctant to view any decorating project as a precursor to months or years of living in half-done mess, worse than the original version, followed by days and days of fiddly boring painstaking labour, followed by not being supposed to touch or use the freshly fixed up area.
He's kind of right about it when it involves plastering, though. But I do wish we didn't have woodchip...
Bra shopping
Feb. 27th, 2010 08:44 pmI kind of want to know where Japanese or Chinese women, or maybe teenage mothers, buy their nursing bras. Because my band size appears to be BELOW a 28 again, and yet my cup size, not so much with the eensy weensy. Also, I'm pregnant, so I want to wear SOMETHING.
I'm finding the Bravado Designs ones aren't fitting right at the moment, which is annoying. And of course because the smallest bands I can get are too big, the cup sizes are all too small, which means that either I go larger cupwise and get that to fit, in which case there is too much strap anyway and the top of the cups raches practically over my shoulder (well, up to my collarbone), or just plain too small, so the band rides up madly because the straps and cups are too small for me.
I give in. I am placing my order for a standard-issue fashion-industry body now, and I hope it's fulfilled shortly. I hear dispatch times are a real problem though.
I'm finding the Bravado Designs ones aren't fitting right at the moment, which is annoying. And of course because the smallest bands I can get are too big, the cup sizes are all too small, which means that either I go larger cupwise and get that to fit, in which case there is too much strap anyway and the top of the cups raches practically over my shoulder (well, up to my collarbone), or just plain too small, so the band rides up madly because the straps and cups are too small for me.
I give in. I am placing my order for a standard-issue fashion-industry body now, and I hope it's fulfilled shortly. I hear dispatch times are a real problem though.