A glimpse of potential...

Over the past week, I've been busy caring for my two little poppets who've both had ear infections! I took Zachy to the Dr on Sunday, and the following day took Evy. Because I couldn't get her an appointment during the day i had to take her to the after hours. By the time we came out (after at least an hour) it was dark and pouring with rain ... i mean pouring ... those REALLY fat heavy raindrops where you need your wipers on super speed! I piled Evy into the car, buckled her up and jumped in. As we headed out of the car park i drove past the back of our family store (which backs onto the Dr's) and that's when i caught a glimpse!

3 seconds ... that's all it took! As i drove past the family store my eyes caught sight of this beautiful dolls house, it was sitting in the rain, in the cold, on a dark night, it had no roof, and it was sitting beside the skip bin ... you know what that means! It was on its way out! At first glance i thought ... "ooh, it'd be cool to do something with that!" All i could see was potential ... what could be.

As i curled up into bed that night ... I started to think about the dolls house, and colour schemes, and how i could fix it up ... sand it back, give it a new paint job, get some wood, cut out a roof, nail it on, and wham, bam, a dolls house Sam! I'm sure i spent at least 2 hours dreaming about how amazing i could make it, and how much fun Evy would have when she finally gets it in her hot little hands.

So the next day i went back to the family store and asked what the plan was for the dolls house, and they were going to throw it out, It certainly wasn't as beautiful as I'd thought ... but for a koha i piled it into the car ... well squeezed it in ... it took up the whole boot (and i didn't actually squeeze it in, one of the staff did) ... it was much bigger than I'd thought on the cold, dark, rainy night! Bonus was though ... that it did have a roof, just not attached.

So, here's my first little DIY project!

It's going to be a slow progression i think, but I'm looking forward to it. I didn't realise how much work it is going to be until i started to clean it  ... as i cleaned i thought "how am i going to do this?" "I wonder if I'll actually finish this" ... i have a tendency to start things and not finish them ... like books, i hardly EVER finish books!
So here begins the Dolls House project. I'm thinking pink, and pretty! (I've popped some ideas on my kiddliwinks pinterest board) here's hoping I'll see it through to completion ... in a reasonable time frame ... time will tell!

Itsy Bitsy :)

P.S: I've discovered spell check!