A weekend away

Well, woo-hoo, I have a weekend off! I’ll warn you in advance not to expect so very much from me for the next few days as my sister is coming down to Somerset for a flying visit and we have lots of out and abouts planned.

It’s a funny sort of thing, but every time she comes down for a visit, there’s a crisis in the house that results in the house looking like a disaster zone. The first time was moving day before we started knocking walls down, the second time, one of the kitchen cabinets fell off the wall, a day before she was due to arrive, and this time we had a burst pipe in the bathroom, which has resulted in my kitchen ceiling being pulled down and replaced. Oh well, no ceiling just adds to that rustic look, doesn’t it? *wibble*

The kitchen ceiling post-flood

Lots to be getting on with today. I’m baking her a belated birthday cake (the ceiling fell down on her birthday, and the dogs ate her birthday cake – resulting in a sister abandoned in the middle of the Cotswolds with no birthday cake) which will hopefully make it up to her, and other domestic chores.

I do have some exciting show and tells to follow though.

My new shoerack, which started off life as a £10 self assembly job from Argos

Every house needs an odds and ends bowl and I found this lovely rough wooden bowl for half price at a local furniture shop.

The beginnings of a picture frame I'm making from driftwood I collected on my US trip. I want to make a woven string backing and make a shell collage to decorate the centre but this is it in progress...

I’d better get on with it, hadn’t I? Have a good weekend all.

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