Makeover of our toilet

Well, I'm still changing some details and adding things every now and then, but I consider our toilet practically finished now. At least, the walls are finished. We will also put a new floor in there, and some other smaller things still need to be done.

I'll show you the progress-pics in this post, but I will warn you: lots and lots of pictures! Ready?

This is how it all started:

You can see here how small it is. It's not very easy to work in a small space like that, and taking pictures is even worse. 

 started out with yellowish - orange-y colours

 adding some greens and blues

and finishing it off with red. All the colours I used in this toilet are used somewhere else in the house, except for the red. 

 adding details with stencils and stamps

 it's a small toilet, but it sure takes some effort before all the walls are covered ...

 adding some text as well (you know me... always have to add quotes everywhere ;-) )

I started out wanting to fill the walls with flowers. But then I started seeing all these faces in the marks, so I thought I might just start with a few....

 and some animals as well...

 not forgetting the flowers :-)

I have been working on and off in this toilet for about 6 months, and in the meantime we got a new toilet, so in the later pictures this image isn't visible as well anymore. Which I kinda regret. 

okay, so far we've had the in progress pictures. Now I'm starting with the images how they are now (and how they will probably remain)

corners are a bit hard, and he's getting the foot of one of the other images in his face. Oh well ...

this is the part above the door

 ventilation still needs to be installed ... 

Well, that's it! Some people probably recoil in horror when seeing this, but I had fun doing this, and if I get tired of it I just take a paintbrush and go over it. Easy as that, right!? 

But for now these creatures can stay :-) This must be the biggest project I've taken on, and in the end I really had enough of it. The middle of the walls is fun to do, but the corners and the low and high parts are really difficult. The toilet is so small you can't put a ladder in there, so in order to reach the higher parts I stood on the toilet lid. And sure enough, just a few weeks after we had a new toilet, it went crack, and I found myself with my feet in the water .... So in case you're thinking of doing something like this: don't stand on the toilet lid!.

I love it when I need to go to the toilet at night. I just take a small flash light, and it is as if I'm sitting in a kind of dark but friendly forest, surrounded by beings that protect me :-)

Okay, that's enough for today! I'll be linking this to Paint Party Friday, just click on the link to see some wonderful creations. I'll be finishing my post, as always, with some funnies:

And last but not least:

Thanks for your visit! Hope your day is going great, and your weekend will be filled with joy.

See you next week ♥ ♥ ♥

Working on my calendar

All of a sudden it is the end of October, and the holiday-season is rapidly approaching. So it is chaos here, trying to get things ready for my market, as well as still doing renovation-work in the house.

I have been making calendars since 2013, and the last few years I always used images of the paintings I made that year. But this year was a problem for me. I only finished 2 paintings. Yes, two... First of all because of the move to our new house and all the endless renovation work, and secondly because I have been painting really large, which does take a lot more time to finish.

So I had to be creative, and looked back through images of older paintings that I hadn't already used in previous calendars. Plus, my new paintings being so large, I was able to use several different images from one painting. I haven't completed the calendar yet, but it's getting there. Here are a few months that I have finished:

Meanwhile, I've also started painting some rocks and boxes. It's still in the beginning stages, but one box is almost finished. I call it my "Hundertwasser"-box, because I used the work of Hundertwasser as my inspiration. At least for the coloured part. I got carried away a bit, it was so much fun to do :-) Here's a view of my worktable:

And last but not least I have also been working in our toilet. It is finally starting to come together. It just needs some detailwork and then I can call it quits. I'll share pics from start to finish when I'm done with it.

Well, that's all for now. I just need to share some funnies with you. Sorry most of them are about Trump, but there are so many hilarious ones circulating on the net lately :-)

Oh, this last one, it just makes me laugh every single time I see it. You just gotta love the people who create these :-D Even though it's a very serious matter, and I'm still terrified that somehow he's going to manage to win these elections (thinking about Brexit here ....) it is good to be able to laugh away the tension...

I'm linking to Paint Party Friday, looking forward to see what everyone's been doing these last weeks. Thanks for your visit, hope you're having a great day and a beautiful weekend ahead of you! See you next time ♥ ♥ ♥