So after painting two coats, it was time to sponge (incidentally one of my favourite words). I created a simple leaf design (good ol’ William Morris is rife for stealing) and stuck it on a piece of stiff card for support.

Then dunked in the apricot and applied to the blue walls. I can’t recommend drinking wine enough whilst decorating, it makes you bold (luckily not so bold that i didn’t give it a test first). If you want to be really anal you can measure up first to get an exact distance between each one, but I just did it by eye and hence didn’t go insane.

I left a crumbling wall shaped gap in one corner of the room, having also stopped the blue here as I hope to do a mural in that corner. Some sort of nice countryside scene beyond the walls of the house (rather than depicting what would actually be there: my ex evicted neighbour’s 5 ft high grass bladed garden complete with their own design at regular intervals inventively created out of canine faecal matter).

#cat has a new house mate. His name is Gus. Kitty relations are troubled at present, but should improve shortly.