the offending cellar

Thanks for the lovely comments and emails - thought I would take a photo while the lid was up and Ian was below. As you can see if you look closely, our cellar has jarrah steps leading down into its depth - indeed an Aladdain's Cave, Dorothy but full of wine, suitcases, 'stuff' and the boys books and toys etc which I have not parted with. I was on my way down to find a few books (mission impossible as it turned out) and very foolishly going down frontwards (Ian says it is my own fault) thinking about task in hand and leaning forward to turn on the light which is up the top and suddenly I slid down to the bottom - if you can see the space between the jarrah pillar and the dark blue (one of our taking to picnic chairs) you will see exactly where I landed - I think I ran my hands down the pillar which is possibly what made them so very sore. If you look to the top of the picture you will see one of our wine racks. Safe from me. This incredible cellar is under our bedroom and is very useful - you can stand up etc. I have recovered although still a little sore in places but nothing broken and still able to hold my wine glass....

Good news is that the boxes for London are all packed and stacked and documentation done and ready to deliver to the carriers for their plane flight tomorrow night. And then Wayne and his men will deliver them to Ally Pally for us. So I have had a little time to play - I have been applying paint to baking parchment and then laying clear contact over the top when the paint is dry and rubbing silver gilding flakes in the places where there is no paint. On the top after putting it in my Okarito journal, I have stamped with Stazon - next time I won;t use black as it is too harsh - I used Silver and Brown Opulence Paints. A good experiment and one I plan to work further on. Next I need to experiment with a new distrssable fabric awaiting my attention. But first to cook dinner.

Yesterday, we received the remaining Distress Stains which are now available in all the same colours as Distress Inks - you can see them on the website. I am very fond of these and I am using them in conjunction with the moonglow sprays.