BATH!

 

It's going to be an AWESOME DAY!

Steve is coming back this afternoon to do the final finishing touches in the bathroom... then I can do the REVEAL.

ABOVE:  Khady enjoying her Christmas chocolates last night.

ABOVE: Having a cluck over little Lily, who was having her normal witching hour (or three) of being cranky in the evening.  

They are so lucky she actually does well overnight.

ABOVE:  Stew's Christmas/Birthday Present from Mike and Joyce.  The latest Chiefs Shirt.  He looks rather fab in it.

Well... once Khady leaves this morning I'm going out to buy some flowers.  I have a space for some more inside. 

The other thing I want to get done today is those 4 runners, all going well.  

It would be nice to have them added to my stash for tomorrows market.

CATCH YA LATER...

The bathroom reveal will be in about an hour... or less.

I'm just editing photos etc.

ABOVE:  The 'before' photo.

Steve arrived after work this morning, and did all the finishing things in the bathroom.  Silicone around the bath, shelves up, skirting boards back on and so on.

It was stinking hot, I felt a bit guilty about making him work.

HOPEFULLY I don't find any more jobs for him to do for a very long time.

Now, the first photo I took using PANORAMA on my phone, to get the entire bath area in one photo.

So, there's curves where there shouldn't be, let me assure you the bath is not curved across the front and my ceiling is not curved either!  lol

ABOVE: Obviously, the accents were always going to be BLUE. 😂😊

ABOVE:  The perfect holder for the bathplug, a little copper bath.  I've had that little copper bath for about 20 years.

Steve built the little blue 'box' to hold the bath bombs, but I repurposed it for the plug.

The bath bombs and bubble bars ended up in clear plastic containers on the windowsill.

It was an evolving 'titivate',  till I got it all as I wanted it.

ABOVE:  I already had all the ornaments, plants etc.  

That lighthouse was bought from Bellingen in Australia, when I was visiting Mum about 15 years ago.  I can still picture the shop it came from, it was like a converted barn.

Interestingly, I have quite a few things from Bellingen.  Mum passed away in the hospital in Bellingen. 

ABOVE:  I didn't need to buy new flowers today either.  I just plucked some from an existing arrangement that had an abundance of flowers already.  You can't even tell I nicked some out of it. 😂😉

ABOVE:  I knew from the word 'go' that this metal lighthouse would go there.

And that is also why I knew the wood/rustic shelves would work in my bathroom.

You need to have a vision sometimes, and know what will and won't work.

The reason I say that is because of this:

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Those shelves must be some kind of joke, they are so ugly and inappropriate for a barhroom. Please do not put them up.. they are a joke, right.

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ANON:  Each to their own is all I can say, oh and you are rather RUDE.

I am so very happy it is all done, I have a functioning bath, in the BATHROOM.

It looks wonderful, and it will be a lovely room to have a relaxing soak in on a cold winter evening.

I can't thank our son Steve enough for all he did to get it done for me.  AND to Stew and Mike for their efforts too.

I'd thank the plumber too... but maybe not right now.  lol 

And now it's time for me to get back in the sewing room and finish off those KIWI runners.

ABOVE: one last bathroom photo...this one shows the panelling Steve and I did, which I am really proud of.  It looks so neat!

I forgot to mention... I did not have my first bath this morning.

Two reasons.

1.  I wanted to have my first bath when the bathroom was totally finished.

2. I have to wait for the silicone around the bath's edges to cure.

So, my first bath will be tomorrow night, after we have spent the day at market.

9.38 pm: And it's time to head off to bed.  We have an early start in the morning. 

Catch ya tomorrow.