whoops....not quite managed to post everyday......but then again i am so busy...saturday i was knee deep (not literally...but it makes it sound like i was very busy !!) in concrete having the fireplace put in, which looks fantastic, i cannot wait to share it on here...and i equally cannot wait to have our first real fire, which we have to wait a week to do so, which will be nice as that will coincide with the putting up off the christmas tree !!!!

oh.......... and sunday i was knee deep in paint...as i will be again today !!! but i shall leave you today with some of my new makes.......some are already on folksy...some have sold....and some shall be put on folksy sometime this week !!!!

i am so exited..........i shall tell you for why !!!!
last year this is what the lounge looked like..............please note: horrid gas fire ( sorry if i offend anyone who has one, and loves it ) and the horrid textured wallpaper....when we moved in almost 3 years ago we decided just to paint over it for now....well for now came to an end 4 weeks ago, i was eating my breakfast one morning and decided i can no longer live with this wallpaper or that gas fire.................so after hastily eating my porridge (still in my p.j.s) i decided to strip the walls........ i rang my other half at 3pm (still in my p.j.s) and told him of my adventures with a fish slice....(yes a fish slice makes a great wallpaper stripper) and i have arranged for someone to take out the gas fire......... after the shock...he was very happy with the hard work i had done (well so he says)........
so this is what it looks like for now............................................................................but come this weekend the fire place is going to be put in, we have a bought a lovely original cast iron fireplace and surround which matches the house perfectly our house was built in 1900, we know this has the house has a plaque on the front that says 'clarence villas 1900' this is very handy to know when you are putting original features back into a property, we are lucky as most of the house hasn't been changed over the last 100 years, we still have all the original doors and the fireplaces upstairs, and the original skirting boards.......the fireplaces upstairs are what did it for me with this house !
and walls are going to be painted.....more shelfs are going up....and ornaments and mirrors are being moved around........

and as you can see in the above pic..........fabrics and a box of tricks have arrived from cath k.......(please note matilda the whippet has to sniff and inspect anything and everything that comes into the house) yes i shall be making new curtains for the lounge...that will be sometime next week, when all the painting has finished........

we also had a very successful visit to ikea....we purchased a new rug, lots of cushion pads, new throws... well really too many things to name.......new pics of these when they are all in situ !!

p.s. did i mention i am very exited !!!!!!!!

wow... that was a long unintended blog break............thankyou for your comments, can't really say alot about the troubling circumstances on here....they are kinda still there.......but things are definately looking more rosy !!! it is a case of just ignoring it !!

st. ives was a tonic as always...and the fact that a cath kidston has taken up a residency there....well so much the better..............

tomorrow i will post more pics....as i literally am out the door on the way to ikea......... and yikes december 1st already....where might i ask has this year gone ???

i have so much to share....and i have made a promise to myself that i will post everyday this december......i will be back with ikea purchases, and tales of renovations...oh and some of my crafting.........