This weekend my darling wife decided that she didn't like the way the furniture was arranged in our living room, come bedroom. So when I put my head around the door on Saturday afternoon she'd emptied the many contents of various cupboards over the tatami and was well into the process of rearranging our lives with very little help required of me. Great...as I hate moving stuff around.
Anyway on Saturday evening I managed to create a home renewal project all of my very own when I prised the cork board off the kitchen wall for use in the the rearranged living room. I'd used strong tape' to secure it to the kitchen wall a few years ago, which meant that removing it was near impossible without bringing a few pieces of wall off in the process. So by the end of Saturday evening I had created a very sorry looking kitchen wall...her indoors was not impressed.
Woke up this morning and started the process of fixing the wall. The wall had originally been covered with wallpaper when we first moved in but we had since given it a couple of layers of paint. I knew there were a few rolls of the wallpaper lying around and so went to search them out. Next I needed to buy some polyfilla and wallpaper paste so it being Sunday meant a trip to my local, and slightly over-priced DIY store, to purchase the goods. The nearest thing to polyfilla turned out to only come in a 500 gram mix yourself pot...which would make loads, when I only needed a little bit to fill the tears in the paper. (If you find yourself in the future wanting a bit of polyfilla let me know...I've got lots to share!)
Fortunately the landlord had left his wallpapering tools behind, so the next four to five hours were spent stripping and making good the previous evenings damage. Got to admit that it looks pretty good...although I've been asked to paint over the wallpaper.
We bought a new laptop a couple of months back which spends most of its time on our kitchen table. Occasionally I'll use it with the two older kids to play a game from the BBC kids site or something but on Friday I launched the web cam program so that my kids could pull faces at the built-in web cam and see the results. The program also has a set of effects and we had a load of fun distorting our faces and laughing at the results, especially my son whose head shape seemed to fit some of the filters perfectly. I was surfing this evening and found this clip which has given me an idea...
Pure genius
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