spring

It is officially spring today....I am wearing A SKIRT!!!
I'm not going out anywhere as my legs have only had one coat of fake tan so are not fit for public viewing yet but...its a skirt!!!
I am working today...obviously ;)
Mum has 2 teeny boys so I can get on with 'patch' work....I do feel in limbo until the fabric arrives...and I'm getting excited about its arrival!! Not looking forward to writing the mahoosive cheque perhaps..but i may disappear for a day while I lock myself away with it!!! I am still getting the 'office' ready, we ordered from Ikea online for the big bits I need (popping to Ikea for me is a good 5 hour round trip!!) which will get us nearly organised before we can get to the shop in person for the essentials they don't deliver (like tealights and fabric lol!)
Anyway I have some boring paperwork to get through today, so I shall break it up with some nicer things...like.....
rosali bedding!!
Someone very very kindly offered to pop to Ikea to get me a rosali bedding set as I had heard a cheeky rumour the design was back in the UK...

she got me not one but 2 sets a blue and a pink/white :D
I am so smiley...now I don't claim to love rosali as much as this lovely lady...but *sigh* .......I keep looking out of the window at it blowing on the line!!
Now my intention was to cut and make but now its here...not sure I will be able to make that 1st cut!!!
Thank you angel cake for being such a lovely friend xxx
Now I need some green fingered advice..is it too early to plant out sweet pea plants???
I have started them off in loo rolls (better roots by all accounts) on the windowsill....and they are now getting too big....do I need to harden off before whacking them in the ground??
They are healthier looking plants than the ones I have previously bought in the garden centre, but any help for my next move gratefully received!!

christmas at ikea purchases

Life is chaotic at the minute, family stuff. We have houseguests, our largish house is feeling tiny and never clean, and my big boys are needing a bit extra support with stuff going on in their lives....so blogging keeps having to go to the bottom of the to do list!!!
But I have 5 mins or so to show you my Ikea purchases from the MK trip. (I have no idea if these are any different to previous years designs as I don't think I have ever been to Ikea near Christmas before....)I have no need for these tins but I liked them.....the heart design on the top tin is on a lot of christmassy things at ikea, I don't like it too much, I think it looks broken, but if you do like they have it on glasses and china too.....
They had a few different wreaths, but the red heart one was my fave...can't decide if I should put on my front door or not.
I only bought 1 candle as I am unsure of my christmas candle situation until the decs come out of the loft!!!i love a red and white christmas dec....although I'm too disorganised to have a complete theme, its a bit anything goes (but not black and white, thats not christmassy in my eyes!!) The birds are for the tree and the cones will be strung on the dining room fireplace..I think!!!

And then some foody bits.....gingerbread houses and gingerbread flavoured toffee (this is for a couple of hampers I am putting together), I liked the packaging....
And biscuitty tree decs...I could, and in fact still will, make these myself but these are perfect to ice on as an extra thank you for the kindergarten teachers I thought.

Couldn't resist these paper gift bags, rubbish blurry pic, but cute yet freaky gnome character!!!

They also had really cheap rolls of brown wrapping paper, I didn't like the string or ribbon they had though so have ordered some bakers twine from ebay for my parcels.

Hopefully I can post again soon, I'm feeling christmassy and want to blog about gifts and crafts and decs that I want to buy (don't tell, I did say I wouldn't buy any more this year!!).

We are off to New York on our belated honeymoon/lovely husbands big 40 birthday trip....in only 11 sleeps....I have so much to do for that...sorting out the kids for starters...aswell as having a rough idea of what we want to do whilst there...(silkie sue I will email you x)...if anyone has been in the past few years and knows of a fabric shop/source not to far off the beaten track (no way will I get away with dragging him across town looking for fabric!!!) then please could you let me know....