Just Keep Painting, Christmas Is Coming.

 Well I am trying to keep calm, but as it has rained for most of the past week, I have had to change from the garden to the painting, and I have been working hard this week on the dining room. 

Once more up the scaffolding, which means a lot off concentrating on very high up walls. Also it is exhausting, I will be glad to finish it. Maybe I have taken on a bit much trying to finish by Christmas, but now it has started I am back in to working mode of 9 - 5.

As it was before with white dado

Miss P came over yesterday and worked on the 2nd. coat of paint on the dado, with the new colour,  which is a great help, while I painted doors, and finished off a few fiddly things.

I have a sense of urgency now with two children turning up on the 23rd. this month, and a long list of must do's before that, as well as trying to get things done for Christmas Day Lunch for 16 at this house.

I feel like everything I own now is propped up on something, or in a box or placed on the floor out of the way. The kitchen benches are full, all because. I emptied the hutch so we could move it away from the wall, as very heavy. This holds a lot of glassware, dinner sets, silverware, tablecloths and more.

 Interestingly I have discovered a few things I can get rid of as well, that I couldn't before, the mess must be getting to me I think.

The dado, which has always been white, has now become the Shamrock blue colour, picking up on the  rest of it around the stairs. 

New colour with still another coat of white to go.

 I was having a lot of trouble deciding on the wall colour and in the end went white which blends in very nicely with either side white wall as well. Such an easy solution to what I have been in a quandary for some time.

With everything in the way not the easiest to take photos, but I hope you get the idea. Other than also painting a few doors, that has been my week. At night I have been trying to wrap a few presents.

Tomorrow is an appointment with the Orthopedic Surgeon about my knees to see what to do about that, which if anything won't be until Autumn next year. My exercise of climbing ladders and scaffolding might be a bit out there, but it is obviously strengthening some muscles. 

 Till Next Time