whitewashing

While charity shopping last week, I bought this little house shaped shelf.  I think it was originally used to store thimbles.  

I plan to put some of my trinkets in it (though so far most of them have turned out to be too big to fit in it - noooo!) but wanted to do some home improvements first.  So...

I've been painting the whole thing white.  Two years ago I really dug my heels in to make sure there were no white walls in the flat when we redecorated.  Now all I do is paint things white: the walls, the picture frames, now this house...  I've been wondering today, is this a symptom of a psychological disorder or something?  It's come from nowhere.  White white white.  Actually, I plan to paint the roof red and (if my paint skills are up to scratch) paint on little tiles.  I might also wallpaper inside the boxes so each one is like a different room?   It's been a good project to do today when I've been feeling very lazy and not productive - monotonous but purposeful.

I did complete another exciting project, actually.  Well, stage one of an exciting project.  Graham's friend, Marc, has a Gocco and (lovely man that he is) succumbed to my enthusiastic rambling/questioning/swooning on Saturday night and invited me to visit his Gocco and make a print on it.  I am so excited to try it (I was only angling for the opportunity to look at the Gocco so actually printing on it exceeds my wildest dreams!) but also a bit scared because Marc is very talented and my drawing skills are not up to much.  Anyway, today I made myself sit down and persevere, and ended up with drawings to make a two-colour print from.  I drew a hulder.  There are lots of different ideas about precisely what a hulder is/does but the version I know is that she is a super attractive lady (with Norwegian trolls for parents) but she has a cow's tail.  Men can spend an amazingly (a-hem!) pleasant summer's evening with her but if they speak a single word she'll capture them and keep them locked up forever.  I will share my hulder once I've printed her.  I hope she turns out.  Gocco!  I can't wait!