The Grand Tour

We have been in our lovely new home for 6 months now and for the past month all the decorating and home improvements have been finished!

I can't say the house is fully finished yet though; it's a bit messy with all my craft stuff and we are still finding bits and bobs to rehouse from our old house.  There's also a few jobs we would still like to do but need to save up yet more pennies.

But as promised here is the grand tour - I wasn't sure whether to do before and after pics or just the house as it is so here goes. 

Get yourself a cuppa and have a peep at the OLD house...... Come Inside

(this is the only photo we have of the outside - its work in progress as we need to redo the drive)

(Hmmm not very inviting is it!)

Lets go up the stairs and into Miss Molly's room..... oh

  

 it's a bit cramped in here... lets not stop long, come into Jake's instead...

At least we've already started in this room - hubby put up the coving.  Can't stop long though and onto the next room...

OOOOps for some strange reason we didn't take a before shot of the master bedroom but if you close your eyes and picture a dirty cream carpet, black and white striped wallpaper and matching curtains, black candelabra style light then you've cracked it!!!!!!

Do you need the loo before we go back downstairs.....hmmm rather not!

By heck get your feet up and watch some tv....

 

 



Whilst I make a brew....

 

 

Oh and lets not forget the outside....

 

And the conservatory....

 

I've had to show you this way so the before pictures first as although I thought I'd been happy snappy with the camera I have missed some of the finished rooms so to be on the safe side I will take lots this weekend!





Organising and sorting!

I may have already mentioned (yeah only hundreds of times) that our new house has a conservatory which is earmarked to be my craft room as well as an extra room.

In preparation for my own little space I have been doing a bit of organising and sorting......

My fabrics are all neat...

 

My buttons are all in jars........(don't be fooled these are just the blue/green and yellow/orange buttons I have! The others had been put away.)

 

 

 

and my bits and bobs are all going to be stored neatly.  Remember this....

 

 

Well Lucy from Attic 24 had a fab idea (see here). How clever, all neat and tidy and perfect to fit into a desk drawer. 

 

A bit of paper,

 

 

and glue stick and hey presto!

 

I  still have lots to do especially finding a home for my big stash of wool.   What are your creative spaces like?????



Well hello there......

I didn't realise it had been so long since my last post.  I have been meaning to pop by but we have been rather busy with one thing or another.

Last weekend we had a tootle over to Morecambe again to visit the caravan and have a sleep-over.  We only lasted one night as it was still very cold and when we were turning the water back on after winter we managed to spring a leak!

This is us in the back of the car enjoying a little picnic after going the scenic route home!

I had 2 weeks off work due to the school holidays and we have used this time to make progress on the renovations to our new house.  We are now at the new carpet stage in both our bedroom and the lounge/dining room. So so happy and excited can finally see some light at the end of the tunnel.

This was me and hubby last night ripping the old carpet up, I tell you we know how to have a good night!!!!!

I promise I have been doing a little bit of crafting but haven't really got anything that is finished to show you just yet but watch this space........and hopefully once the carpet fitters have come on Monday i will be able to show you some finished rooms x x x

A Quick Ta Dah!

Happy Easter Everyone !!!!xxx

I know its not like me to post daily but I have had a little bit of time today to finish a couple of projects in between a bit of gardening, baking and entertaining the kids!

Here is the first.  Remember yesterday (my previous post) we were collecting pebbles,

....shells....

and glass in Morecambe.....

well I paired these with the glass floats and vase that I had found at the car boot.....

and hey presto!

Our bathroom centre piece.

I love it and my newly finished bathroom.... I'll save that for another post.  Ta-ta for now. x

Snowy Weekend

This was the view from our Kitchen window when we woke up on Saturday morning, lots and lots of lovely unadulterated snow.  Although now that it has started to thaw it is not looking quite so impressive.

We have had a busy few weeks, my little boy has visited his new school (because of the house move), our conservatory has been finished and we have managed some more decorating.

Here is the conservatory, my new craft room;

Not yet finished but only needs to be decorated so that's now been added to the never-ending list.  W.e have managed to cove the Lounge on Monday night (I did the sawing and hubby did the sticking) and we did some wallpapering last night.  Not sure when Saturday nights got so exciting!!!!!! I did enjoy myself though and was allowed to actually progress from pasting to actual lining and managed a whole wall : ).

Not really made much progress crafting wise been busy entertaining the kiddies.  Molly and I painted nails this afternoon, we decided on being slightly adventurous and going for 2 colours  (she's 2 and a half and thought it was fab).

Then we moved on to hairdressing and poor Jake seemed to become the target!

 

Hope you all had fun in the snow whether you stopped in or played out!

Car Booting

Off we went this morning to our local car boot despite the little sprinkling of snow on the ground.  And do you know what I am soooooo glad we did as we came home with loads of bargains : )

For a grand total of £16 I bought - the Gruffalo's Child book, Brambly Hedge box set, 4 various books, Alice in Wonderland (golden ticket book), glass vase, some little girls pumps, vintage pillow cases (future project....watch this space), a vintage tea cup (all on its own), yellow vintage tea set, wooden boat, wooden key holder, strawberry glass, boat wall hanger, a storage box for my dolly peg paint and last but not least some children's clippo (like sticklebricks, if you remember those).

If you are a regular visitor to sockamabobs you'll already know that we are in the middle of renovating our new house so I have been trying to source inexpensive things for decoration (especially for my craft room aka the conservatory).  I have also recently been thinking about opening up a wool shop which also showcases some of the crafts that I make (its very early stages and a little bit too scary).

Anyways enough of the chit chat and on to the photos -

My little girl watching her Daddy and all the workmen fixing the house, hmmmm wonder what job she would like when she's older!

Some of my trinkets.  The boats are for our new bathroom.  I managed to get some turquoise and blue glass floats from the car boot the other week.  These had been shown on Kirsty Allsop's Vintage Home (a Telly Programme) and I had fallen in love with them.  The glass vase that I bought today can fit all of them in and once I have some fishing net, some shells and pebbles my centre piece will be finished and I promise to post a picture.

I also managed to get this beautiful vintage tea set for about 50p.  The strange thing is though I bought the saucer last week at a car boot we often go to.  It was all on it's own at the bottom of a box and I just loved it and had to have it.  The cup I bought today at a car boot that we went to for the very first time over 15 miles away!  It was again all on its own looking very pretty and a bargain at 20p. 

When I got home and I'd given everything a wash, it dawned on me that they were the same set, they even have the same markings underneath.  How uncanny - just need the winning lottery numbers now!

Anyway off to potter, can't wait to see what other treasures I uncover next week.   What have you been up to today????????

A quick catch-up

Well hello there, I though I would just catch-up with you before I got sidetracked and started something else!

In my last post I had been doing a bit of baking and I had made some anzac biscuits for my works "bake off" that we were all taking part in for Comic Relief.

There have been 3 categories that we could put ourselves forward for - Scones, biscuits and tray bakes.  I only entered the biscuit category but out of 9 entrants I WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I was judged the star baker!

I have always dreamt of having my own little wool shop one day with a small cafe to one side serving all the old favourites just like your grandma used to make. Last week I made Lemon Drizzle cake and it was utterly delicious.  This week I have made..........

Blueberry muffins.  When I went to my local supermarket this afternoon they had some packs of blueberries that were reduced to 29p - well enough said I could hardly refuse!

The recipe was from Lucy's blog at Attic24 and they were AmaZing.

 

Last week I also managed to finish my pram blanket - ta dah.......

 

 

 

I am very happy with the finished blanket and the baby who it is for was born on the day it was finished - I had also edged it with the turquoise blue not knowing that the baby was a boy!

 

We are still making slow progress with the new house - no more rooms finished but we have bought the paint and wallpaper so again watch this space.

 





Another project nearly finished!

This week I have mainly been.............stinky and needing a shower.  Although in this bathroom I don't think I will be getting one!

For the past week we have been trying to renovate the bathroom.  It all got delivered just after Christmas and has been living in my lounge. 
On Tuesday my husband and Andy the plumber ripped out the bath and basin leaving a little lonely toilet!. 
They spent Wednesday sorting out some wonky bricks, an old leak and some missing floor boards - oh the joys!
Thursday saw the new bath in - yipee but alas no shower!   And Friday (fanfare please) we have running water, the basin in, a new toilet and the bath all fixed!

Yesterday we purchased some tiles at a bargain price (thanks B&Q) and got on with the messy job of tiling.  I have to say I got the safe jobs of measuring and marking the tiles and handing them in sequence to my hubby who was standing in the bath.

We have got some photos of the different stages although once we are finished next week I will post the finished masterpiece! Still got shower, new window and painting to do.

Thanks goodness for parents otherwise we would all be very stinky!!!!!!!!!!!

As you can see I am sticking to my resolutions this year and starting what I have finished.  The blanket is still in mid progress but I have made some other lovely things which I will save for next time xxxxxxxxxx