a week to work and dream

We have a week to do what we want/need to do to Doris starting tomorrow. I shall be making curtains and cushion covers, cleaning the inside, painting the inside and adding some homely touches while the man does the outside: brushing off rust from underneath and painting with Hammerite, spray painting the brown bits sage green, and whatever other man jobs I decide ;)

Whoop whoop happy days

Doris passed!!! She needs some work underneath which we knew - to say she is rusty would be an understatement, so she needs brushing down and attacking with the trusty hammerite, she needed one new tyre and new back lights. She does have damp but we knew that - I'm sure him indoors can fix it but we're not hugely concerned at the moment.
I went to Ikea yesterday with the boy to look at material but the ones I liked were out of stock. However we did buy lots of nice things for home, including some fabric vegetables!
Hoping the fabric comes back in stock soon or I'll have to get back on eBay... trouble is I haven't seen anything as nice. And the Cath Kidston catalogue has landed through my door, that could get me in a whole HEAP of trouble.....

biting fingernails

nervous!
Doris goes in for her health check up on Friday and we are quite scared that we might get bad news. Fact is she didn't tow brilliantly so there *is* a problem of some sort but it depends what...
Trying not to think about it too much as it could be hopes dashed so I am looking at fabrics instead. Am thinking this for the curtains... Ikea £3.99 a metre. We were going to replace the foam cushions but are going to have a go at shampooing and jetwashing them instead. Then hopefully I'll just recover them and they'll be clean and gorgeous. Fingers crossed on all fronts.

Doris!

We love Doris. She is great. Hubby went to collect her yesterday and yes she needs some love and attention but we are up for that. She belonged to someone who died recently (not inside her thank goodness!) and she hadn't been used for a long time so she is a little bit rough round the edges but we will soon get her ship shape and for £226.50 we can't grumble.
The plan is to renew the curtains and cushion covers, paint the walls and woodwork and repaint the outside. She is currently a kind of white and poo brown combo with lots of areas where the paint has rubbed off?! So we are thinking to keep with the retro feel, we will repaint her possibly a cream colour with sage green. Bit more palatable. And inside is my decision really, will probably be cream but will see when I can find some fabric suitable for the curtains etc. Will get a new floor too, we are thinking of a rubber floor with the coin sized circles - wipe clean but not as loud as lino as the dog has a habit of pacing up and down which would be soooo annoying on lino, click click click of the claws....
Am ever so slightly excited! Dropped her off at her home for now at cousin Gareths, and we are back there today to make a proper list of things to do and take away the soft furnishings so I can be sorting them out at home..... Big grins all round :D