home decoration

This week I failed on the cooking front (no new recipes), but I did only get back from holiday on Monday afternoon to an empty fridge and bare cupboards, so I'm using that as an excuse!

I did, however, complete a blind for the house. We have a long window at the front of the house which is too long and too narrow for an off-the-shelf blind, so I decided to have a go at making a roman blind. Basically, I was tired of the neighbours seeing me in my pyjamas when I stumble out of bed and downstairs to make coffee every morning!

I was pretty pleased with the final result:

I thought it wasn't too bad for a first attempt. I followed some instructions I found online, with some minor adaptions, and it turned out to be quite straight forward to construct. The only awkward part was marking out (accurately) such a large shape for cutting the pattern.

10 on 10 January 2012

I'm late posting my 10 photos from the 10th January, but I hope I can be forgiven since I was on holiday somewhere with slow and intermittant internet access.

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Here they are; my 10 photos taken on 10th January in Vinales Valley, Pinar del Rio Province, Western Cuba.