Happy Easter ....

.... it has been a very busy week here.  So much for holidays, I'm hoping next week will be a lot less frantic.  We've been .... yawn .... decorating!!  Husband has decided that, since we're on a roll, we should do the hall, stairs and landing (started but abandoned about two years ago) as well as the craftroom.  Our oven and kettle broke, and since the dishwasher had been ailing for about a year, we got a new one of those too (haggled a great deal by buying them all at the one place).  Then when we fitted the new oven, the old hob wouldn't fit back in, so after much faffing about, cursing and the like, we had to replace the hob too.  Beans on toast for the next six months!!!

I promised DD on her birthday (last summer!) that I would do a "Banksy" image on the wall of her room when we redecorated it.  The room was done, but it has taken me until now to get around to doing the image (ooh, the shame!!).  It ties in with the nightlight already on the wall, as you can see in the pic of the full thing here:

The stencil was very complicated to do, took an awful lot of cutting out to get the detail just right.  I thought it would take ages to paint too - but it must only have been about half an hour or so.  I'm delighted with the result, but more importantly, so is the "birthday girl"!!!

Here's a little close-up of the Banksy girl:

And that's it, back to the grindstone, I have to make a lot of cards, read a lot of blogs, comment on even more blogs, and as for the housework ... I don't want to think about it!!!

Thanks for looking.