Dylan's Nursery
Well I have been working on a lot of freelance work lately, which has meant my evening and weekends have been mainly spent looking at the screen of my lap top and drinking copious amounts of coffee. One of the freelance jobs I have been working on has been helping my friend to design a new website for his blind company. I started out with just a few ideas, but the project soon became more involved, and I was designing templates and page elements for use throughout the site. It was a good way of getting some new venetian blinds in the lobby and vertical blinds for the patio doors to match the roller blind in the kitchen. The site is now live, www.melloblinds.co.uk and is already taking orders.
Now with the better weather coming, I have been splitting my spare time between Dylan's nursery and the back garden. I have primed and glossed the skirting boards and painted the coving in Dylan's nursery, the walls are all ready for me to begin hanging wallpaper. Guess what I will be doing on the upcoming May bank holiday!
The back garden is going to be a huge project, at the moment there is a lot of slabs covering the majority of the back garden, these will be replaced by grass, so we can play football and watch Dylan playing in his sand pit. At the moment it is not a particularly child friendly area, certainly not for a toddler who is prone to banging his bonce, and falling over. So as a matter of urgency I will be getting the slabs up and having a lawn laid at some time this year, so next year Dylan can enjoy running around outside, this Summer he is unlikely to be wanting to go outside and run around, at the moment he is just crawling and chasing the cats.
I have planted two varieties of Clematis at the bottom of the garden, and put up some trellis for them to climb. In a year or two they should be covering the majority of the garden wall.
This weekend I have taken down a fence which was around the postage stamp of lawn we currently have, and have painted the shed with a coat of protector. Next weekend, weather permitting will be enough time for me to weather proof the decking, and start clearing some of the debris left from the previous owners.