You Can't Help Acting on Impulse

I wonder how many of you out there remember those adverts

where the beautiful girl was presented with

flowers from the incredibly handsome stranger.

Of course the reality of the cheap body spray

never quite lived up to the fantasy did it.

How many times has that happened to you when you have 

bought something on the spur of the moment

only to get home and found you have made a mistake

or it wasn't quite as perfect as you thought it was going to be.

I'm always doing it with clothes.

Anyway Mr T and I were in Norwich a few weeks ago

when it suddenly occurred to us that we had all 3 children 

coming home for Christmas and only one spare bed. So, 

on impulse,we bought a new sofa bed then and there from John Lewis.

The idea being it could go into my workroom(my son's old bedroom)

turning it into an occasional bedroom.

When my son moved out I had moved my sewing machine in and 

not really done much else with it.

So before our new purchase arrived I decided I needed to decorate 

and reorganise my room. I also needed more storage.

After plain white emulsion on the walls.

I started with an old ottoman foot stool for the bedding.

Which I covered with some heavy grey linen I had stored

away in my stash. A bargain buy which I couldn't resist

knowing it would come in handy for something.

Then went to the local auction and bought an old

cupboard. 

 Painted Manor house Grey from Farrow and Ball

Filled with my fabric stash.

And

Decoupaged with some old french magazines

on the inside.

Then the sofa arrived. 

 It was bigger than 

I remembered  and we had a real panic 

that it wasn't going to fit up the stairs

as we hadn't checked the measurements.

We have a narrow and twisted staircase

and it was a close run thing but other than a 

small scratch to the on the wall it has been put in place.

With a cupboard stolen from another room for

my books  and magazines I have a new room.

My new organised and tidy (for now)

workroom/occasional bedroom is finished

and I love it.

Maybe I should act on impulse more often.

Gillx