I have been too busy to blog lately. I spent last week on the Isle of Wight scouring charity shops for lovely vintage fabrics, doing lots of touristy things like Brading Roman Villa and The Brading Experience and spending lots of time with my mum, sister and nieces. I also bought some lovely Japanese magazines from ebay which I haven’t had the time to read. I’m hoping I can have a look through them before my new books arrive from Amazon. Finally I tried to apply for my provisional driving licence so I can have some more driving lessons. Then…
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I’ve had a busy and expensive few days. On friday I spent lots of money on two new Orla Kiely handbags to add to my expanding collection. I bought my first leather bag, which is red, and I love it. Then yesterday we went to re-visit a beautiful print we saw in a shop window in Crouch End and ended up buying it! It is a print by Stuart Free and shows the old sign on the Hornsey Road Baths which they are currently turning into flats (what else!). The print is fantastic and looks great in our dining room.…
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My lovely moo mini cards, originally uploaded by Jennifer Young.
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Yes, my head hurts and I haven’t even gone to bed yet. I am so busy at work at the moment that I justwantocry! Yes, really. Oh well. Tonight we went to my second favourite pub in London, the Lamb and Flag, and met up with Ollie and Dafydd, which was fun. But I drank too much, and it’s only Tuesday 🙁 Roll on the weekend. It’s gonna be cool!
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Tonight I managed to install twitterific on my laptop – no stopping my tweets now! We’ve had a really busy few days with my sister and three nieces staying with us. We have been to London Zoo, Camden Market, Covent Garden, the Natural History Museum and I feel like I have spent this months paycheck feeding them. Thank god I am only an auntie and I get to wave goodbye to them and get my life back. My poor sister has to live with them!
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We are enjoying spending some sunny days by the sea in Devon. Today I purchased a lovely Lloyd Loom chair which is in desperate need of some tlc. It just about fits in the boot (along with all my other lovely purchases) and I am looking forward to getting it home and covering it with some Cath Kidston fabric. It will look great in our house 🙂
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Right now I am all cleaned out. We have spent the day finishing off loads of half finished projects, so we have filled holes, painted walls, chopped up trees, cleared the garden and cleaned the house from top to bottom. I take great pleasure in cleaning bits of the house that were clearly never touched by the previous occupants. I have gone through many cleaning wipes and I look forward to enjoying sitting down and admiring my nice clean house.
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Today we are feeling very proud of ourselves. We have ordered our first compost bin to recycle all our kitchen waste from here. Apparently it takes 6-12 months to turn into something good enough to actually use…. I’ll have to make sure I don’t get bored trudging to the bottom of the garden with my vegetable peelings and egg shells! Robin finally put the washing line up so at last we can hang the washing out. This is a good thing and was one of the reasons we wanted a house with a garden.
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We found a lovely hedgehog underneath our rotten old shed today. He was curled up into a ball around some old plastic bags. We scooped him up and deposited him in the park at Ally Pally this evening. Robin spent the day pulling down the old shed and rotten tree with the help of some friends. Now we are left with a(nother) big pile of garden rubbish to burn – then we can finally start planning the new garden 🙂 A garden was one of the requirements of our move and we’re really looking forward to having proper outside space.