A Crafty Lighthouse

Here's something I put together with my box of tools yesterday on Monday afternoon.

It's a wooden model lighthouse that I bought while down in Cornwall during that late Summer

visit.

There was a similar one in the cottage we stayed in, so I hunted one down in one of the local

tourist gift shops. And I was sure that I could make it into something else. And so I turned it into

a lamp, and it now sits by the fireplace.

That big late Summer Holiday in Cornwall follows this post, for any of our hardened visitors

that have bypassed it.

Not Another Picture!

While looking around one of our many local second hand Charity shops I came across

this very attractive framed print. Not too sure who the work is by, but our friend Neil tells

me that Google has a picture recognition facility. And what I like about it is it's oval shape

and it's polished mahogany frame.

The shop price tag said £45 but the shopkeeper let me have it for £35, probably so as to shift

it and make room for more vintage surprises.

What was a bit of a trial was getting it hung up on my fireplace wall. Unfortunately

it was too wide to fit properly in between the two wall lamps. So I was forced to pull them out

and fit them back in much wider apart. That of course meant a bit of re-plastering and painting.

But it was all worth it in the end.

My Little Stay Over Room

I was recently thrilled to have an old friend stay over and use my recently
built guest room. A small space that was really just somewhere to hang
my clothes until it got overcrowded with junk and other things that
needed storing away.
And I suppose that by having him stay over for a couple of nights
it probably helped to kill of the ghost of last September when I had someone
stay over and it didn't quite work out. A strange old time that left me
baffled and confused.
Odd though because when my friend left he mentioned something about
registering my little room with Airbnb. Well that's probably not
practical as I actually live in the flat.

I do wish though that I had an extra little room like this about fifteen years ago
when living a more active social life, because around that time my flat
was a hub of activity with friends coming and going, as well as crashing out on
my floor barely a few feet away from me in bed.
And boy am I a light sleeper. So I was never comfortable about that.

Below are a few pictures I took of the room as I was preparing it for
my recent visitor.

Above: The bed all folded up and covered while not in use.

Below: Pictures of  the building of the little room from last Summer.
I had to pack away quite a bit of cement and plaster to those
damaged walls.

Below: The small room from back in Christmas 2007
when I first started blogging, and I created a sort of mini theatre Christmas display featuring my china collection of Snowmen.