Painting the photo gallery wall white 22nd Oct 2014

My gosh Wednesday nearly slipped by me this week. It has been very busy mostly with cleaning the house and garden ready for the wet season that officially starts Nov. Paint ing is on the agenda in some places it is never ending in the tropics. This week I started the wooden wall below and hubby finished it, it took 3 coats to cover the wood.

Same wall last Xmas!!!!! I did not realise how dark it made the room???????

Freshly painted it use to be just the colour of the wood but it was so hard to keep clean in humid conditions during the wet. Now it will only take 15 mins to wash down. I call this area my roués gallery?????

Over the last few weeks I have seen marks appearing on my 1930 GMFG I have been working on all year hemming and quilting, I could not work out were I was picking up the stains, then last week as I pulled it off my chair a recliner it was caught down one side and as it came out there was this HUGH grease mark, horrors old black grease of all things.

I decided I needed to remove it as soon as possible but I did not want to wash it with out quilting that area first; so I worked just on the corner and washed it using I old rubber dub washing board and hand made olive oil soap from France nearly all the marks have been removed. One of the things I have learnt from this is I will NOT now wash the quilt till I have completely quilted it, washing it has made the fabric shrink a little and it is a lot harder to quilt compared to the area that is not washed.

Above photo is where the thick grease was!!!!

Because t is sooooo old I thought I would complete the hem then wash it to get rid of the musty smell but now I will just put up with it and quilt it as is. This was to be my 2014 project but it is only about 1/2 done so it will have to become my 2015 project to now LOL.

The below flowers are taken this morning. last week the spider orchid was just opening and now one steam is fully out.

Below a wild banana it even looks like they will grow big enough to eat this year?????

Below some of the undergrowth in our rain forest area.

Below a Huge hand woven floor rug that came in to the shop it is sooooo dirty no one wanted to touch it, but as I have been a weaver I could not bear to see all that work been dumped so I have brought it home to see if I can clean it up, it is surprising what a garden hose and clothes detergent can do some times. I will let you know how it goes.