First Post. Reverse Ageing & Bedroom Re-do

Happy New Year lovers of Fantastic Furniture, Chalk Paint Addicts and Crafty Home Makeover Type Stuff.  Its been a long old holiday break here at Chateau Debell and today is the first day I have had the opportunity to pull out my lovely, if slightly dusty, laptop and get blogging.

Hoping you all had a wonderful Christmas - seems so long ago now - but I wish each and every one of you a wonderful 2013.  It's going to be a good one.  I know this to be fact, because on the way home from the pub on New Years Eve, having toasted everyone's health and wished one and all a prosperous new year I found a tenner.  Yippee.

That's the prosperous bit started nicely and as for health - well this morning I discovered my body is reversing the ageing process.  I am not, as I thought, knocking on 40 (yes really, gulp), but I have the ears of a 4 year old.  I am in fact incredibly young, ergo, healthy.

OK, slight exaggeration.  I went deaf in one ear in mid-November.  Not unusual for me.  I regularly have blocked ears and the Syringe at the quacks is my favorite way of spending 10 minutes.  But this was different.  Not that the doc believed me.  So after a double set of antibiotics and chest Xray (!) I finally got referred to the ENT and had my appointment this morning.

Ever had a massive camera stuck up your nose? No? That thing was scary - and long - and scary.  So very scary.  The Consultant did say it would make my eyes water.  He wasn't lying.   Take my advice boys and girls.  Waterproof Mascara is a must if anyone ever waves a long scary, very scary, nose camera at you.

So, the diagnosis.  "Ms Debell, you have Glue Ear.  You need a Gromit".  Marvellous.  I have the ears of a 4 year old.  See.  Reverse Ageing.

So that's my start to the new year.  It has been too cold to paint outside this week, so I have continued on my bedroom re-vamp.  The wallpaper was my priority as we have finally ordered our new bed.  Oh man I can't wait to snooze on that sucker.  I am closely related to the Princess from The Princess and the Pea, so this bed better live up to it's not insignificant price tag.  As my Mum said - "You can buy a new bed but you cant buy a new back".  So we doubled the budget and bought a dream (geddit?) mattress.

Beautiful black and white Hydranger & Roses wallpaper

Couple of pics so you can see how I got on with my Wallpapering - not too shabby if I do say so myself.  I even managed to line the walls and did the whole thing without a jot of assistance.  If the Furniture Restoration doesn't take off I can always wallpaper things instead.

A Close Up of the wallpaper.  Yummy.

Onwards and upwards, just need to find Wallace to add to my Gromit.  Jemima would like a puppy...hmmm.  Perhaps not.

Salut et à bientôt,

Marie x