Eye Spy.....My work in progress...

How apt is that for a theme?!

Crafting progress is at a nil, but hey the building progress is s-l-o-o-o-o-o-w, but crucially, there is progress. The bricks arrived , wrong ones on the Thursday (and a week late...), wrong ones on the Friday, right ones on the Monday!! So we have a wall!! And they're lovely bricks they match beautifully, much better than the ones I thought we were getting (I won't explain that, you never know who's reading!) So it was actually worth the wait, you see, there's always a positive side!! We have no roof yet, it's raining. Apparently builders go rusty if you leave them out in the rain, and they only cure is to lubricate with a strong dose of PG Tips......
Further progress upstairs, the plasterer is doing his thang in the back bedroom as I type! Oe-er missus!! And the nice gas man just serviced the boiler and it didn't get condemend! Whoa! (Excuse the excitement but it's always a bonus with a boiler that's over 20 years old.) How thrilling is this for a post, all this talk of boilers and bricks, oh, be still my beating heart!!
And just so someone doesn't call for Craftman and Bobbin to come and bust my non-crafting arse on this supposedly craft blog, does wrapping an old yellow t-shirt around an old dusty Ikea lampshade (Darling, it's what all the best lampshades are wearing. T-shirts at a jaunty angle? Why yes, it's all the rage) while saying aloud "I'll stitch that on there, it'll be lovely!" count as crafting? Or does saying "....eventually" under my breath negate it's right to be called a work in progress?! Actually, I'm going to refer to it as a WIMP (work in mental progress) or maybe just plain mental for short.......


Thanks to the lovely Bug and Pop for Eye Spying fun, and to Michelle at Hugo & Elsa for the great theme!

Eye Spy ...something in my garden

Late again for the meme! Ho hum, that's life!
But look what's growing in my garden! It was a lovely little surprise from a friend for my birthday last week, so not sure who it's made by but it's taken up a happy and permanent residence on my coat. Only I keep forgetting why people are staring at my left bap....if you know what I mean....;)
Thanks to Beyond Pink and Blue for this weeks theme and to Bug and Pop for the Eye Spy fun!

Eye Spy...something that makes me HAPPY!

OOPS! Late for my own Eye Spy theme!
So what makes me happy? Well, this week it's bubble baths!
Because after nearly 2 years (yes, you did read that right) of having packing tape on the bath because of a hole caused by a large bottle of shampoo pushed by the cat, if rumours are to be believed (I don't believe, I have my own theory involving small creatures on two legs rather than four....) we sorted the bathroom. (Possibly the smallest bathroom on the face of the earth)

It started by looking like this...

Then we improved it, so it looked like this....

and this....

And then the nice plumber took over and made it look like this...

I love those tiles they make me very HAPPY!

I still have to paint the ceiling and get the drawer to fit in the sink unit (boring story!) but we're nearly there.
Just the hall, 3 bedrooms, front extension and kitchen to sort then. I think we're in for a LONG year!!
I didn't tell you about Mr.M puting in the loft ladder, did I? The idea was to board out the loft and make it into a proper storage/play room. Good idea. Great idea in fact. Only, I came home from work a few months ago, to find the hall ceiling on the floor, and M stuck in the loft! It's great now, but like I said it's gonna be a looong year!

More Eye Spy fun over at Bug and Pop!

Eye Spy!

If you're playing along with Bug and Pop's game of I Spy, this weeks theme is:

I Spy...something that makes me HAPPY!

Doesn't matter what it is, could be chocolate (well, obviously!), crafting, the kids, your man - can you tell the priority of things in this house?

Anyway, whatever it is that puts a smile (or smirk) on your face, get posting about it!

(And if you're not playing Eye Spy, join in - 'tis great fun, I tell you!)

Eye Spy...Something Delicious!

This weeks Eye Spy theme comes courtesy of another Sharon over at Handmaiden .
My something delicious is a panini, made by Mr.M full of cheese and pastrami. Sunday lunch always tastes so much better when someone else makes it. And the headline in the background is a complete coincidence, honest!



I've only just realized this is my first post of February, I seem to have lost my blogging mojo this week. Don't know why. I've been busy playing in the snow, but I haven't done a lot else (just looked out of the window and it's snowing again! YAY!!) I tell, you I've become weather obsessed this week, fascinated by the chaos caused , Britain at a standstill and all that. Mind it's a bit extreme taking a snow day when I work from home. Mr.M is threatening to do a time in motion study on me. Good luck finding the motion I say!
I did managed to squeeze in a New Baby present for a work friend of Mr.M, a heart garland made from gingham and a card with a little pram embroidered on it. Oh and I listed some Valentines cards on Folksy and sold one! Still amazes me when I sell anything!
Well, I must dash because, true to form, the chicken is burning...!

Eye Spy....My Best Memories of 2008

Continuing the Eye Spy game started by Bug and Pop....

2008 was the year of camping, (in a tent- not the Julian Clary variety of camp you understand...)

Very, very wet and windy camping, not once, not twice but thrice. Hardcore!!

2008: The great British summer. The year of playing on the beach in a fleece. With my trousers rolled up. I'm just sooo English.


2008: The year we all turned 40 together, 19 years after we turned 21 together.

At least this time we didn't celebrate with a night out that ended with 'sleeping' in Victoria Train Station. In March. I say sleeping, really it was shivering with your eyes shut. Yes, it was cold, so cold I still remember it 20 years later!

Ladies, here's to another 20 years of inappropriate nights out!

And at least I've stopped being annoyed at being 40, I'm far too pissed off at being 41 soon to worry about it!

Thanks to Kat at Kats Creations for this weeks theme!