Don't pay the ransom, I got away!

[vanillafluffy]

Some of you may be wondering where I've been all weekend. Some of you may have been busy with your own lives and not noticed that I wasn't posting. Some of you may think that I'm full of myself. Hmm, maybe so

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[pwcorgigirl]

It sounds like you had a wonderful extended weekend. And new clothes are always fun!

We went down to see our sister-in-law (the widow of Corgiguy's alcoholic brother) and had a great time. It finally feels like the pall of his addiction/terminal illness has left the house. She's starting to give away his stuff, and gave us a box of model planes that belonged to their dad. He was a Navy test pilot and each time he tested a new jet, the company that made it gave him a model of it.

I've spent the day painting the upstairs bathroom, which included putting up a new wallpaper border and making a new valance for the window. It cost only $3 for Habitat Restore paint, $8 for the border, and the fabric was some I used ten years ago at our old house, so it's the Under a Dozen Bucks room makeover. :)

[vanillafluffy]

Wow, that's an amazing re-do! I hope we'll get to see some pictures. I have the wallpaper to do my central bath and paint for the ceiling, but first I need to clear it out (about 500 magazines and a stack of stuff) and then I'd need help, since I can't really raise my arms over my head. *sigh*

Hooray that your extended family is healing, and that you were able to connect.

The skirt is a pattern I probably would not have picked out, had I a whole store to choose from, but it fits me and fits into my wardrobe, so carpe couture--!

[pwcorgigirl]

I'm going to take some photos when I get the border up in the downstairs bathroom. The place I ordered it from is in Canada, so it's taking a while to arrive.

Due to a quirk in the renovations we did ten years ago, we have to put the borders at waist-level, not ceiling level. The guy who installed the new vanities made them an inch and half lower that the old ones, which left a permanent dent in the drywall all the way around. So the borders are put up to hide that, and they work nicely for drawing the eye to the center of what are two rather small rooms.

[vanillafluffy]

A few years ago, a friend didn't check her measurements when she put up a border in her bath, and you can really tell when the door's closed because one side is six inches higher.

[vanillafluffy]

Thanks! Did you and Caelie visit your folks, or did you "christen" your new kitchen by preparing a feast?