Managed to find a pic of the dresser

This is the dresser I got from ebay and this is the picture they used to display the dresser for sale - it looks like its the light oak finish that is i the shops now rather than the oak varnished piece it actually is! Right back to work - just had a break to eat - we are putting up dado rail in the hall up the stairs etc. We have been going since 9.30am - its 2pm and are just about to put the long piece up the stairs - we have spent hours measuring and making angles on the wall! We will get there and it will be worth it! we should have bought an extra length for mock ups of angles - I bet we dont have enough now - saying that it is looking really good up to now.

Update on the dresser and life here......

Hi all, well today my daughter passed her driving test - she has taken Ross out for a drive and a meal! Well done ........

The dresser - well after all the hype this is the first thing I have won on ebay that I have been disappointed with. I know I am intending to paint it but there are loads more scratches on it than were mentioned in the ad. However I fawned over it when they came on Saturday - as you do. The thing is in the picture I was expecting a fairly modern looking oak dresser like you see in the shops at the moment. It is actually the type that my parents have in the their house. Its OK but just not what I expected still never mind its packed with loads of stuff and will be painted one weekend in Summer. I was intending to take off the middle glass door so I had some open space but because it has two long shelves inside that wont be possible - still I have my wooden bargain knobs (ebay 1.99 for 8 tho I need 9!) mahogany to stain like the Smallbone kitchens or paint -we'll see.

Can't post my dresser pic from ebay as Isaved it in Word. Daughter just came back on a total high - she and Ross have been looking at moving out and his boss has offered them a place to rent about 11 miles from here - they hav been sat with us working out how much money it will cost to live together - she came back down to earth with a bit of a bump! Still I reckon they would manage. Hmm I won't be able to persuade Alan to extend now.................I must come back tomorrow and post the jumble pics and some I took the other of the dresser. Night night

Whoops nearly forgot we are now on the eau de nil match pot from LA we need the pale one I think but they didn't have any! I will get this hall and stairs painted eventually - in the time I have taken Alan has been concentrating on the garden - he has done loads and all I do is sit with the paintcards and tell him where to plant stuff we brought with us - its looking good.

Meeting Kate's fiancee's parents tonight aaaargh

We are out tonight for Kate's fiancee's (Ross - who put our heating in!) birthday and we are meeting his parents for the first time. I am looking forward to it because Kate says we will like them lots. Its still a bit nerve wracking though - but I love the place we are going to eat. It's called Joe Rigatoni's in Yarm. I shall have to drag out my glad rags.............

I bought a dresser on ebay (bargain!!) and the sellers are delivering it for us on Saturday - then they rang to say they could come Thursday night, I was gutted, we never go out from one week to the next and the one night I could have got my dresser early we are out. So its coming Saturday am instead. Its oak with three glass doors - I have bought it to paint, possibly cream with cooking apple green inside - however hubby thinks it will be criminal to paint it but you don't know what its really going to be like till we see it in person. I also know if its ok I will be so glad to get all my bits out and in situ - that will mean about 4 big boxes and 4 small ones unpacked - Whoopeeeee.

I will add my finds from the jumble sale to my blog when I find the camera. We are painting the hallway at the moment and the walls have Clunch, Pointing, Teresa's Green, Ringwold Ground, and Dimity (Farrow & Ball paints) dotted around them whilst we decide which colour is right. We can't make decisions any more!!