Collaged Wall

Wednesday morning I woke up at 4 a.m.  I had a friend coming for the weekend, so I really needed to get the house CLEANED. So what did I do? Remember my office wall that I wallpapered old book pages to?   I LOVE my meditation / writing corner. It's where I have a cup of tea, plan the day, snuggle with Buddy. I had kept thinking that the wall with the bookcase looked a bit naked. I kept thinking I wanted to do more wallpapering of something, but not the same. Also, the colour needed to match the book pages; so it would have to be tea stained or antiqued, not white. I've been saving programs from St. Luke's because I'm a hoarder I thought I'd do something crafty with the songs in there. However, the covers were the right colour!  Here's the wall in the process of drying:

I also added some old music book pages.

OK, here we go with the finished alcove:

I'll prolly continue to add things to the wall.

Love this old statue:

'member how I ran out of wallpaper paste
& left the bottom unfinished? Ta-da! Done.

 But of course, then I have to cover the chair:

Because:

Tabby Bobcat in a Groom Fest. Buddy's face at having to share HIS chair says it all!

 Can you hear Mum thru the internet?  "Even when you do a non-dog blog post, you somehow manage to put the dogs in it!"  Yup.

Here's one more of Tabby on the bottom of the bookcase:

His new favourite spot until it gets filled. Then he will go over there & MEOW
at me to move stuff out of HIS spot. Because that's how he is. Such a cat!

On the technical side, I just got a bucket of wallpaper paste & a brush and applied it to the back of the page and then also the front when I applied it to the wall. That's it. You'll use more wallpaper paste than what it says on the bucket, but it gives it an even, non-glossy finish.

Another Office Redo

It's been a joke about the third bedroom that I have. I switched my bedroom last summer (which has since had a few more evolutions)! I set up the spare room as a massage/yoga room/guest room. Ha. Much like before the move, it made a gradual descent into a junk room. If I were fancier, a junque room. In the meantime, I had also done some rearranging/reorganizing of my office. I even built shelves!  So that ALL my art supplies were categorized and organized.

*sigh*

Then I had a thought: Why am I cramming all my art stuff into the smallest room in the house? Especially since I have an essentially unused room. Thus began the move; of shelves, art supplies, and book cases. My house is in a state of upheaval. But I have brought order into the office. It started with this chair, as modeled by Buddy:

I stopped by the Goodwill in Goochland on Sunday. All day yesterday I kept thinking about this chair; cozy, comfortable. Sorta patchwork quilty. I thought, "If it's there on Tuesday, it's meant to be & I'll get it."  But I kept picturing it there in the alcove, so I finally just went and got it. I called Chiro-sis and she came over to help me bring it in; surprisingly easy to maneuver for such a large chair.  

See the dots on the wall behind Buddy?

Well.  I patched the holes left by the shelves. Then I painted, but didn't stir well enough, so I ended up with dark patches.  *sigh*

I was going to paint . . .

But then decided to do this:

Old book pages applied with wall paper paste.

Appearance from Tabby Bobcat:

Tabby is purring. :-)

I ran out of wallpaper paste, so I need to finish the last two feet at the bottom. You can sorta see it:

Zzzzz . . . .

This morning:

The book was a reference to Bible passages. Here's a close up of one of the pages:

 Can you hear my mother thru the internet saying, "Even when it's not Doggie Monday, you still have dogs on your blog!"

Yup.

Zzzzz . . . .

More to come, but for now, this'll do.  :-)