Busy, busy day

Have worked hard this weekend. The scraproom now looks like this. The horrid carpet has been removed, and we are in the process of stripping the floorboards which will be exposed with a rug over them. The walls are 'Duck Egg' and the ceiling is 'Parchment'. Am very pleased with it so far.

We have also done the first coat of 'Toffee Cream' on the stairs and landing today, and bought our kitchen doors yesterday - natural walnut with chunky nickel handles, looking forward to seeing it! Due in 3 weeks time.

Feeling a wee bit nauseous from all the fumes (paint stripper plus emulsion is a bileous combination!).

Also picked out my wallpaper, gorgeous peony design :). OOhhhhhh it's all so exciting!

Catching up with photos

Done a wee bit of catching up on the Her Space:My Space photos. Here are my attempts at Curvy and Alive. Can anyone guess what the curvy one is???

Way behind with my photos...

But here are 'Bricks' and 'Blue' :O)

These are pics of my gorgeous Edwardian house and some anenomes that Gus got me to say sorry I didn't get the job, bless him.

Some progress

Craft room now looks like this:

Following an undercoat of paint. Hoping to get the first coat of duck egg on today if I can drag my arse away from the computer.

Anna's tag

A - Available or taken: taken, by Angus
B- Best friend(s): Tommy P (luv ya babe)
C - Cake or pie: cake, but would rather have a choccie biccie
D - Drink of choice: vouvray please
E - Essential item you use every day: my Origins face cream
F - Favorite colour: brown
G - Gummy bears or worms: I think i'm gonna eat some worms.
H - Hometown: now Malvern, but originally Brum.
I - Indulgence: vino plonco.
J - January or February: January, like snow.
K - Karma: probably bad...
L - Life is incomplete without: love.
M - Marriage Date: hopefully Sept 08.
N - Number of siblings: 1, my gorgeous bro Paul x.
O - Oranges or Apples: apples, but only if they are English.
P - Phobias or Fears: wasps (((shudder)))
Q - Fave Quote: I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
R - Reason to smile: little Leo.
S - Season: summertime.
T - Tag 3 or 4 people: NO!
U - Unknown fact about me: I couldn't tell the time until I was 12!
V - Vegetable you don't like: avocado (that might technically be a fruit).
W - Worst habit: shouting at Gus Gus.
X - x-rays: not that I recall....
Y - Your fave food: Lindor chocs, blue cheese, aubergines.
Z - Zodiac sign: Gemini.

Stuff

Scrapajack crop today, went with Jo again. Thanks for a great day Jo, not at ALL envious of all that lush Kuretake stash! Did a CJ and DLO but (as usual) finished neither. Got some lovely PP but was very restrained today. Looking forward to Rosie's crop on 2nd April too. I love having a whole day just for scrap (and, it has to be said, LOTS of chat).

Here is my photo for today - "play" - of my lovely Leo enjoying his favourite toy. Really pleased with today's effort. Isn't he cute!

My space: Her space pics

My (poor) efforts....

Retreat

Last weekend I joined Suzy, Jude and Elaine at Sarah's Cards retreat in Northwich. Great fun, the girls are such a laugh! Classes were a bit girly for me but enjoyed putting my own slant on the kits (which seemed to attract attention - not sure of the good kind - from the teachers!).


Anita and Julie were such talented scrappers, loved their work and classes. Learnt so much but it was so hectic I didn't manage to finish a single thing!








Was poorly Sunday (IBS, no change there then) after a pretty grim meal in the evening on Saturday (Elaine made sure they knew it too!), and was up at 5am, but at least it gave me a little more time to work on my Lanzarote mini book....















Suzy works on Lianne's page kit










Elaine's ribbon stash - not at all jealous!