Craft room....

This morning my craft room looked like a storeroom full to bursting with boxes

So with a bit of inspiration from Victoria at florence and mary I decided to empty some boxes and create a craft room so that I can play "crafty things" again!!

 3 hours later and much lugging and heaving the room now looks like this

Going into the room from the landing I put the armoire in the corner and put all my journals two deep on the bottom shelf and the other shelves are filled with crafty bits, just needs a little more tweeking I think!

On the wall facing the door I've put the chest of drawers that I had in the dining room and filled half with housey things and half with crafty bits, the dolls house belonged to my sister and my bil gave it to me, not sure if I should  paint the outside or to leave it as Karen had it, any suggestions???

Appely Dappely stands beside the window watching the world go by and waiting for children to ride him, and although the chair looks big in the piccy it sits against the right hand side of the room with a small table next to it, I didn't manage to unpack everything though....

so for now these boxes and other things I've yet to find a home for will be hiding behind the door!!

Must go and find something for tea now as Mr Lucey will be home soon, doesn't time fly when you're having fun?

Bye for now,

Love Lucey xx 

Welcome...

Welcome to No 1 The Town House our new abode!

We're in a row of 5 Town houses and they're set around a big square, we've met all the neighbours and they're all so friendly, not like our last estate where you barely got a nod. We've already talked about getting a big tree for the square at christmas, how nice would that be???

This was a little present to ourselves, a lovely red Roberts radio, to keep me company while I'm washing up as our dishwasher is half an inch too big to fit in the hole, typical eh.

The dining table and chairs were also too big to go into the kitchen so for now we've got a white set from Ikea until I find something nice maybe made of oak.

I got red seat cushions and framed a "keep calm and carry on" poster and  I'm looking for a shelf with pegs on so I can have a few pretties on it and hang some bits and bobs from the pegs.

What do you think of our Hellmanns clock?

We bought it in Teneriffe, a chap there makes them out of original jars, we also got a moet champagne bottle for the sitting room...cool eh!

I still have lots of unpacking to do mainly all my crafty bits and books, but its slowly taking shape, my nephew is coming to put up the light fittings, and this weekend we hope to get the fence up between the two houses as the people next door move in next week.

Right I'm off to unpack a few more boxes while listening to the radio,

Bye from No1

Love Lucey xx

I'm back.....

Morning

We've had a wonderful holiday, we spent our days sunning ourselves on a lovely beach, a bit of sightseeing and a little bit of shopping, but todays the "big move day" so I'm going to be busy, busy busy for a few days!!!

As soon as I have time I'll be reading all your lovely bloggs and getting back into the swing of things,

see you soon

Love Lucey xx

Holiday time....

I managed to dodge the rain yesterday on my way to the post office to post some goodies off to Clare who won my giveaway,

where's the sunshine gone???

It's certainly not showing its face here in the North East but hopefully it will be in Tenerife, as we go on holiday on Friday for two weeks yippppeeeeeeeee

Into the case go my swimwear.....

the new sandles...

and, as my "bot" will be firmly glued to a sun lounger......

plenty of reading material!!!!!

Before I go here's the bags I made for the new bathroom,

sewn from pretty CK fabrics and extra wide rick rack that Christine from "this and that" sent me, I think it ties them together nicely.

I'm pleased with the way this bag turned out, made from  Britania fabric, but I added a long shoulder strap to it and  a Stanley button, I'm soooo in love with CK fabrics can you tell??? lol

So, until after the holiday,

Bye for now,

Lucey xx

Bundles of fluff and a winner...

Arn't they the most utterly gorgeous little bundles of fluff you ever did see???

All 13 of them just sat for a few minutes while we took some piccies of them in the park yesterday, and then mammy duck quacked and they all jumped in the pond for a swim, Alexa was so pleased she wanted to jump in with them 'till I told her the water was for ducks only!!

We didn't get to visit Beamish on Monday instead we went to Ikea to get a few more things for the  house and some  more cardboard boxes to finish the packing.

When we got back it was hot and sunny so we emptied all the patio pots, cut the grass and painted the oblisk while drinking cloudy apple and ginger fizz...

..."delicious" (and on offer from M&S!)

I cut a couple of bunches of lilac from the bush at the front of the house, it smells lovely, and the sewing machine has been busy again, I made a couple of shoe bags  to hang on a rail in the bathroom and I've nearly finished another bag made from CK fabric, pics to follow.

There's only the kitchen to pack up now and that will have to wait until Sunday, anyway onto the part you've all been waiting for....

the winner of the giveaweay is.....

(name picked out of the hat)....

"Clare"

Congratulations Clare please e mail me your address and I'll post some lovely things off to you.

Have a nice weekend

back soon

Lucey xx

Want to win some goodies?

Oh I do love a bank holiday weekend especially as I have the whole weekend off work, we plan on doing some packing, well quite a lot of packing as I'm working next weekend and we're off on holiday the week after, and maybe a visit to Beamish again as we did enjoy it last time.

These are some of the lovely things I bought from Blossom and Walker in York on Monday

there's a linen heart with "angel" on it, some painted dolly pegs and some pretty buttons, these thing's are to go in the giveaway I'm having along with a few other bits and pieces so if you want to win them all you have to do is grab my lemonade kitty link at the side and display it on your blog.

I'm loving these gorgeous rainbow coloured pansies that I photographed on my travels, they make me smile.

Shall we say a week today for the giveaway, just grab the link  and leave a comment on this post and I'll put all your names in the hat and Alexa can pick one out.

Do pop back next week to see who's won....it could be you! lol

Have a lovely weekend whatever your plans are,

Lucey xx

Sandles and buttons....

Hiya,

Well my shopping trip went well on Monday in York and I found a new shop!!

It's called  Blossom and Walker and was actually two shops brimming with loveliness both inside and out

( I only spotted the stair basket when I got home, now I might just have to go back for that!!)

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It's one of those shops you can browse in for ages as there's so much to see and quite a lot of it is handmade, I picked some lovely things  for the giveaway (details in the next post) then I wandered round to my fav shop any guesses what  that is??? lol

It was all set out in a seaside theme...

I managed to get everything on the list assisted by a lovely girl called Jade who was so pleasant and helpful, nothing was too much bother for her, including these "must have" sandles for the Summer

stunning!!! I'm happy.

I had a 15 % off voucher from living magazine so didn't feel too guilty about buying this little lot, lol.

I  must tell you about the giveaway I was lucky enough to win  from bustle and sew recently,

these gorgeous dandelion buttons all hand stitched on linen...I love them and shall be stitching them on a cardigan but not just yet as I can't stop looking at them!!

Todays Alexa day and I feel a trip to feed the ducks coming on...

Bye for now,

Lucey xx