Pleasingly Pickled!

Crafting station

Plays this

Crochet addict

Recently in blog-land I was wandering about and happened upon a refreshing lovely blog. A real life this is me warts and all no pretentious crap to see here blog! I feel at times in blog-land,there's a whole lot of nothingness and not a great deal of soul to be had. So thanks goes to Picklebug for providing a great honest read with lovely photos, craft and real stuff. Well done xx
Above images from Picklebug blog. 
Go take a look for yourself.

How much is that Doggy in the Window?

I have a memory as a child my year One class performed the song "How much is that Doggy in the window" to the rest of the school at "Whole School Assembly." What I do recall was having a prosthetic dog tail made from one leg of ladies stockings,  filled with scrunched up paper and attached to my bum with a safety pin. I seem to remember feeling fraudulent as I sang the song, as I am a lifelong Cat lover. I like dogs but don't fancy one in my life....or so I thought.
This week we have had the fortune of minding a little guy and he's challenged my resolve somewhat!
He is a little ray of sunshine and has provided lots of laughs and cuddles. Pierre and The Baby have been surprisingly tolerant of our house guest who is going home today.
What a revelation to us all, thanks little guy for bringing a different brand of happiness to our home.

Headed to a place called love

St Valentines Day is almost upon us.

This week it's been all about the heart at ours. We've set about simplifying things by making plans to take off to where we can...    

     

Enjoy Valentines breakfast served with love

Perhaps an evening stroll here while eating our favourite ice cream then

retire to bed with a sweet heart above made from polaroid pics of our day like this...if we pack blue-tack that is!

Bee's are busy and so am I

Yesterday was a super productive day.  It began with a quick lesson, how to open my multi fold ladder that I got for Christmas, to rescue the cat from the rooftop, in my pajamas pre coffee. 

I  got into some jobs I had planned, before the weather got too warm.  

These are the things I got done...eeeeeeeppp, I am a little bit happy about it too!!!!

1. Using my other new toy, an excellent Ryobi sander - sanded 2 tabletops.
2. Painted table legs and chair.
3. De-liced M's 2 chooks with help from Jack (picture this, screeching, ruffled feathers and running away, that was me!!!!)Chickens are great really-just a wee bit scary
4. Cut down the enormous mutant super weed that keeps growing in our backyard. I gave the left over bit a drink of chook friendly poison
5. Acquired a super cute green sewing machine she's a Singer and I've named her Sage. Pics to come
6. Oiled the tabletops  
7. Cleaned up my painting, sanding mess,finished rearranging and positioned things nicely.
8. Cleaning, cleaning and more cleaning.

Got all squeaky clean with a shower, made a pot of tea, relaxed watching tennis with my love.............The End! 

                                                                            Tired but happy xx

My Friday

This is how I filled my Friday

I folded up the freshly washed aprons found on my recent road trip. So many pretty florals....

                       I drank some tea while reading my emails

             I picked some flowers to put on the dining table

               I wore my painting clothes even though I didn't paint!
                                    it was too windy outside to get started

                 I made a new jewellery board using a pin board, glue, old
       rulers and tacks 


              What does your Friday look like?          

Home -Bless this nest

To say this week has been fraught with emotion, would be the understatement of the year.  When I was growing up I thought being a teenager was one of the most awful times. Turns out I was wrong....being the parent of a teen is! We have been in struggle city this week. There has been a missing child, meetings with teachers, tears, tantrums, anger and awkward silences.  The key to getting through I have found is rising above it all and holding onto the thought that it can't last forever....GULP! Has anyone got a tissue?