Wallies
are a lot of fun! Wallies are pre-pasted, wallpaper cut-outs. I bought them to cover the line where the dining room yellow meets the living room green. I chose sunflowers and cabbage roses. No one else liked the combination, so I went with just the sunflowers. I’m thinking of doing some sort of rose cascade thing in my boudoir with the roses - the package has been opened, so I can’t return them.

I have never applied wallpaper. My experience is limited to watching my parents curse and snipe at each other while papering. This was very unsettling and off-putting because my parents rarely had a cross word for each other, and the anguish caused by wallpapering was as close as I had come to witnessing real marital discord. Then I happened to be sitting too close when someone dropped a roller and was hit in the head. So the whole process is a little scary for me. I bought wallpaper in 1986. Never put it up. Moved in 1987. Gave it to the Salvation Army in 1998. I will most likely only have a wallpapered home if I move into one or can afford to hire a paper hanger.

But the Wallies were easy. Too easy. Only time and budget prevent me from slapping them all over my abode. I may paint the boys’ room blue. They really need a decent color - right now it is a strange amalgam of grey/beige. Wallies have clouds. That would be fun.......