Doh!

A lot of things around the kitchen were pine (spice rack, chopping board, bread bin...) and they don't go with the new cupboards. In a spirit of economy and a rare moment of craft-iness (not craftiness :-)) I recalled that we had some wood stain in the cupboard from years ago and decided to get adventurous with the kitchen paper roll holder.

Not like that. Shut up.

So I stained it golden oak; too light.

Stained it cherry; still not there.

Had a light bulb moment and painted it (three coats) with the wall paint, a buttery orange. Looked lovely; fresh, pretty, perfect match.

Put it back in the kitchen, stepped back, a proud smile on my face, and --

-- from a distance it looks pretty much like a pine kitchen towel holder.

See? (ignore the wall; we're tiling it this weekend).

Birthday!

Happy Birthday raqs! Hope that the day has started out good and just keeps getting better.

::much love::

Is twelve

I'm doing some book research for the tag of a short story I'm about to submit (which meant I detoured into Secretary as I wanted to check the title of a book Faith gives Wesley so I didn't duplicate it, and ooh, we wrote some GOOD smut in that story...) and discovered that one of the Biggles books is called 'Biggles Takes it Rough'.

Are no words.

I'm going with 'The Rustlers of Rattlesnake Valley' instead...

F-list tidy

In a mood of sheer randomness and the realisation when I was writing to a deadline this week that it takes me an hour each morning to check my f-list and that's just for starters, I tried to cut it down a bit.

Mostly, I took off comms, people who don't have me friended so they won't mind, and people who haven't posted in a year (which doesn't help cut down the reading time, I know...)

If anyone is sitting there with a wobbling lip, very happy to add you back (and my eyes were crossed by the end; all those arrows! so it could be I unchecked boxes of bosom buddies by mistake, in which case, eep, throw something at me).

And always, goes without saying, if you're thinking, why do I still have that janedavitt on my list when she doesn't write fic I want to read these days and I never read the other stuff because, hello, does she babble or what, I've been here too long for my lip to wobble when I'm defriended, so go for it if you feel the urge and were holding back out of kindness or sheer apathy.

Not that I'm knocking apathy.

Can't be bothered, to be honest...