Aah another lovely sunny Sunday morning. Lately it seems as though Sunday morning is the only time I have to myself, so apologies for my blog turning into a weekly rather than daily affair. I promise I will try harder!
Yesterday I decided to embark on the Scrapbooking bandwagon. It's my mother-in-law's birthday today, and quite frankly, yesterday I couldn't be bothered to go into town to buy her a present. I had already bought her some Cath Kidston bubble bath and hand cream (conveniently sold in Waitrose). But I needed something extra, partly to say thankyou for making me so many beautiful curtains for our new home. So having had the materials delivered from QVC on Friday, I thought I'd make her a little scrapbook with pictures of her Grandchildren etc etc. I was working on it from 1pm until midnight, hardly ate a bean or drank a drop, but I loved every single minute of it. Here are a few of the 20 (yes, 20!!) pages. They are rather basic, but I had limited materials and time! Please click on the piccies to enlarge them.
So, the question of the day is: Should I keep my spare bedroom carpet?
The carpet in question was left by the old lady who we bought the house from. I think she said that it's from the 1940's, and I actually really love it. It has a lovely bright pattern, and that hand woven look which is just charming. However, they didn't have fitted carpet in the 1940's, and so when she took it from her original house and laid it in this house, it doesn't quite fit the room. The old lady filled round the edges of the carpet with blocks of another carpet. Needless to say, it looks rubbish. So do I ditch the carpet?
I would like to perhaps turn it into a lovely rug, but I haven't really had any luck with finding a company that would do that for me. (If any of you knows of anyone, please post me a comment!). I don't really have another smaller room that it could fit into, and I would hate for it to rot up in the loft. Equally, I'm not sure that anyone would buy it, but it seems an awful shame to just chuck it out. *sigh* such treasures really can tug painfully on heart-strings, but a decision must be made within a couple of weeks since we are starting to redecorate the spare bedroom.
Well, as much as I'd love to, I can't spend all day on here being whimsical, as there are supermarket errands to be run, and a fair bit of ironing and hoovering too. Until next time... xx
Hi Louise, what a lovely personal gift you've put together! You MUST keep the carpet - or let me have it! :-) A friend of ours is a carpet fitter and over the years he's arranged for pieces of carpets to be bound around the edges, making them into rugs. It's not that expensive. Perhaps you could contact a local carpet fitter. You could cut it down a bit to make a large room sized rug or maybe several smaller ones! I'd love to see the photos on your blog! Clare x
Posted by: Clare | 04 February 2007 at 04:50 PM
Carpet is gorgeous....
I agree with the other post... my mum got spare bits of carpet bound by the fitter to use as rugs etc in high traffic areas. I'm pretty sure most smaller carpet companies would be able to do it for you. I'd see what state it is in underneath first though (it might fall apart when you take it up!)
Posted by: Ruthanne | 17 February 2007 at 11:11 PM