the trunk project... update!

I squeezed in a couple of hours this afternoon/evening away from the sewing machine to tackle the trunk... post-clean, polish, fix, and glue - a final bit of clamping and 'structural' work...

...and onto the wallpapering! In the absence of the ivy wallpaper I mentioned earlier (which has been lost somewhere in the depths of the attic) we used leftover wallpaper from my room as a child, a lovely small buttercup-type print...

...and with a bit of a helping hand, my dad and I tackled the wallpapering of the trunk. We battled the plummeting temperatures this afternoon, as it quickly turned into evening, and we finished the job as the sun was going down...

...we quickly got the trunk inside to a warm house (before we lost even more feeling in our fingers and toes!), and sat down with a lovely hot drink to warm up.
I'm so pleased with the finished result, and am super excited to get the trunk full of fabrics and into my room :)