Newquay here we come..

We are off on our hols on Friday...so I really shouldn't be making packed lunch fodder like this:

Nor should I be anywhere near the computer I should be packing!!

Its times like this that I realise how hard it is having 4 children..and how many clothes we have!!! I know this because I have ironed nearly everything we own in the past week - serves me right for being a lazy ironer (what we need for the week - nothing more!!)

I know that I will wear 1 pair of shoes all week - not the 8 pairs I have so far packed....but I won't be unpacking them!! I know that I will be so exhausted from the day time that I will only be changing into my pyjamas....but I won't be unpacking the 3 pretty skirts I've packed for 'evenings'!!!

Why do I find it so hard to pack lightly...can anyone do this?? How do you stop the panic rising when you only put in just enough pants for the week!! I mean it must be YEARS since I had an accident and needed a change of underwear but I empty my drawer whenever I go away!!

Anyway, back soon - hopefully refreshed and raring to go with project house!!

I'll leave you with a picture of 'the' stools......I am banned from looking at ebay for the time being!!! I'm hoping for a 2week turnaround on them once we're home!!

X

Love is....

...the man in your life telling you that you can buy another cupboard because the one you bought is a pile of crap!!!

I hate my cupboard....it has been resanded, and it has had 2 coats of emulsion and looks better than it did before but the paint is just soaking in or something and it just looks dirty..starting to think i bought a load of rubbish!!!

Ok Plan C...3rd coat will be eggshell - I'm thinking F&B Lulworth Blue (I've been to Lulworth and don't see the relevance of blue...perhaps someone can enlighten me!!) will try the water based eggshell methinks.

Plan D is landfill!! Not even freecycle...I wouldn't want to offload it on some unsuspecting soul!!

Mr Dolly would live in a very tidy, minimalistic, furnished like a page in the Next catalogue kinda home without me in his life, he humours me and is learning to love the treasures I bring back to our home....so I know he must really love me not to say 'I told you your cupboard was shite!!!'

So bored with this cupboard - more posts soon, on interesting things like.... how many stools can you fit in a renault scenic!!!!

One of them days...

I had a great day yesterday - spent a very sunny afternoon in the garden of a friend, eating scones with cream and strawberies - the children played nicely - I bought some lovely sweet williams from someones honesty stall on the way home...then I looked for my mobile phone......

I think I remember putting it on the roof of my car as I strapped the boys in....I can also remember a crunchy noise and a small boy saying 'whats that noise mummy?' ...I thought it was a stick but now I'm not so sure :(

Now this wouldn't be so bad but I lost a phone in January too!! And had I learnt my lesson and backed numbers up? - no! Had I uploaded the lovely baby pics on there? - no! so I have spent the day feeling very cross with myself and having to spend a child free morning in the mobile phone shop!!!

At least my flowers look good :)

I've also found it quite liberating not having a phone...not sure I would want to manage without it though!!

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside....

Today at the car boot I was lucky (!?) enough to grab this for £3...(The blonde bombshell was extra!!!)

It needs a lot of work - paint and a new seat canvas (this is that shiny slippy nasty fabric!) but I've been eyeballing deckchairs on ebay and I think I've got a bargain.

Finds today also included

4 glass candle holders (I bought 2 lead crystal ones too but got them home and didn't like them so they are added to our car boot stash) - £1.70 in total for the 4.

a lovely round glass jelly mould for £1 and a 2 tier cake stand for £2.

I also got a couple of toys for the baby for 80p that I am currently trying to dry out properly as I overdid it with the milton I think!!

Apart from the trip across town to the boot sale, I've done nowt but sit on this here computer!! I won 26 stools (don't ask!! ) on ebay yesterday, and the seller is yet to make contact. I got an invoice with a £50 courier charge on but the listing says collection welcome - and thats what I want to do!! I have emailed but as yet no reply...I'm not well known for my patience and I really want to organise it as I need to go with no children so I can fit them in the car!! Fingers crossed I will get a response soon - watch this space for news on what someone might do with 26 stools!!!

Remember the cupboard I messed up? Well my lovely OH has sanded it back today so I can go for round 2 - with emulsion this time!! Here it is half sanded - you can see the hideous paint on it! Not the look I had in mind!!

I've one completed project this week..

from this....

£1 from the charity shop

to this

I'm really pleased with how it has turned out - its painted with dulux willow tree emulsion on the legs and flag wax in antique pine on the top.

Hope everybody is still awake - apologies for the mammoth post. Think I'll have to post more often so I don't have to blather on for so long. X

Ruby Booby

I sometimes get really fed up with the lack of time I seem to have to do the things i want to... My head (and spare room) are filled with a 'want to do' list.

As the things I want to do are not necessary to the smooth running of our home, they take a back seat to the washing, cooking, hoovering, school runs and this......

My Ruby Booby and Prince Pudding!

..... his belly filling is the reason I get naff all except the essentials done some days!

Worth it?......yep totally!

At booby group yesterday I realised that Reuben wasn't the new kid on the block anymore! Over the past few weeks we have welcomed lots of new mums with teeny tiny newborns and a couple of expectant mums too, which is why, sometimes, after a feed, I don't lay him down and get up and do chores - I sit and stare at him, greedily drinking in that yummy babyness! Because I know that this stage will be over before I know it, and will it really matter that I didn't make patchwork cushions!

Thrifting..

Had a good morning - after dropping off 3 boys at their respective places for the day, me and baby dollop parked up and went into 2 charity shops to hunt for goodies!

We went to 2 shops and £1 in each later.....

The cake plate and the little shot glasses were from one place, and the pretty plates, scrabble letters (It was a game but just kept the letters for craft ideas I will probably never get round to!), aswell as 4 paperbacks were from another.

No glass candlesticks today and I also missed out on a pair of curtains in a liberty style floral fabric by seconds! A nice lady got there first, who told me she was going to turn them into a throw for her daughters bed...so i didn't mug her on the way out for them! Better luck next time!

Think we may turn tuesday into thrifty tuesday! I also saw a big pine table in a 2nd hand furniture shop, it was shut so need to pop in there and check out the price - I could be 1 step closer to my mis matched chairs and table plan!!

another crappy sunday..

We loaded the car up with all our junk, (sorry, quality items!), last night - ready to do a car boot sale, and I was looking forward to going with OH in tow so I could chuck my old- quality items - on display then go for a wander nice and early and grab the bargains!!

I am on the hunt for a glass cake dome, crocheted granny square blankets and glass candlesticks and I am never child free for long enough to have a good rummage usually....anyhoo...it rained.....so we got up at quarter to 6 for nowt!!

Still, I painted some old photo frames, sanded a £1 stool from the charity shop and put a coat of paint on this

well it looks hideous! I am not even taking a photo - and I am so over using gloss paint! I had great success with F&B dimity but I wanted a similar look to a dresser I saw on this blog post, the colour is just gorgeous, but after 1 coat of dulux sea blue my cupboard looks pap....so tomorrow (or more likely Tuesday) I shall be donning the power tool (sander!!) and getting as much off as I can before slapping on some baby blue emulsion. If anyone uses emulsion on the pieces they paint - please let me know how they look finished and how they wear. x

I shan't be defeated...and I will be back with pictures when I get it right!!!

In case you are reading down under Max....Happy Birthday....hope it was a good one xxxx