This is Samwise, our nine-week old Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy:
He's supposed to be my dad's dog but since my dad works long hard hours, I've taken on most of the puppy-rearing responsibilities. (Yes, that is my knee) Samwise thought the best way to wake me up this morning, just before six, was to leave a pile of what puppies do best on the carpet beside my bed. I cleaned it up only to discover, throughout the course of the day, that he had left two other surprises hidden in assorted corners of my room, which explained why the smell just would not dissipate. This forced me to clean and tidy my room fastidiously, and led to me finally getting around to my First Official Blog Project (tm).
One of my two gorgeous aunts got hold of a bunch of fabric remnants from a curtain maker and gave me metre upon metre of black and silver fabric. After mum had made me a pair of pillowcases and I had made myself a table cloth for my vanity table, there was still a considerable amount left and I, putting two and two together, figured it would do nicely for a night frill around my bed.
Before: (I forgot to take a proper before photo, so I just took a photo of the side I hadn't put it up yet)
The tools of my ingenious cludgery : Fabric, thumb-tacks and mum's pink hammer.
During: I simply attached the fabric to the bed by sticking thumb-tacks through it into the wood of the bed.
And after: A marvellous transformation that serves the dual purpose of improving the aesthetics of my beloved bedroom and allowing me to hide assorted boxes out of sight under my bed.
I am very proud of my achievements! I still have a couple of other projects planned, such as painting my bookshelf with black and white stripes, putting up a mirror with lights in my vanity corner and changing the roof of my mosquito net.
In the meantime, here's a bonus picture of a drink I treated myself to a few nights back; one of the few totally goth things South Africa has to offer: nightshade syrup! I mixed some of the beautifully purple syrup with soda water and, although it didn't taste as good as I had hoped, it was a fun experiment.
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