Saturday 26 July 2014

...Busy, busy, busy....

...Oh my dear blog followers, its been busy  busy  busy here at the nook.....
....hence my lack of visiting this little craft space of mine....

....its that time of year when there are things that you put of all year round on the diy front, that now need doing.....and what really needed doing was changing our stairs carpet and repainting that deep deep stair well and landing....oh and my little work room...



....so these last two weeks its painting painting painting, taking up carpet, repairing stairs and replacing some 200 year old floor boards.....


....there has been a lot of dust, a lot of sweat and a lot of cups of tea drunk....

....but now its all done and i am now enjoying so very much that wonderful feeling of new new carpet under foot......and it feels gooooood....

 
 
 
....Hooray....a job that i havent been looking forward to is now all done, just a wee bit of new skirting to fit and perhaps a new door on the bathroom, but thats for another time, we are both so tired at the moment and the heat isnt helping with that much either, so a little break is much needed.....
 
.....oh and i almost forgot....remember the knitted seagulls we were yarn bombing for our town....
 
....well, apparantly the miserable local council wouldnt let us string them up round the band stand so another loccation had to be looked for sharpish......
 
 
.....so here they are all wrapped round the railings on the sea front, i nipped down early before work yesterday to take a quick couple of photos to show you........before they all get pinched.........ha...
 
 
 
 
 
....these little dearies are so lovely to knit i am going to knit myself one, to keep just for me, i would dearly love to share the pattern with you so you could knit one too, but the pattern is the property of the lady who runs the yarn bombing group so i dont get the rights to share it......it is a shame as it is a really good pattern and i think you would like it a lot.....
 
......so, just one last thing before i go, if you would like more regular updates from my little nook space and see more of whats going on here, then please come and find me over at Instagram, i do add photos and snippets more regularly over there and it would be just wonderful so see you there....
 
.....just type in 'thecraftenook' in your search on Instagram, and there i shall be....
 
Toodles for now
Pixie
x
 

9 comments:

  1. Ha, carpet fitting, seagull bombing and instagram - you do it all! Mwah xxxx

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  2. I love those seagulls :) I hope they get to stay there a little while before they get pinched!

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  3. Those seagulls are precious i love them. well done to you for all the DIY, especially in this hot weather x

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  4. Tee hee, I do love that little pleasure of new carpet under bare feet! We're just writing our DIY list, it's that time of year for us, too, ugh! We have the big task of moving our youngest to a new bedroom, her little nursery is just too small, so hubby is swapping his office with her. Not an easy task! I do love those seagulls, so fun all lined up (councils are *so glum* when it comes to anything fab like this, why oh why?), you do need one at home! I'm looking forward to more IG pics from you...enjoy the weekend! Chrissie x

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  5. I wish I could have strolled by to see those seagulls. They look great.

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  6. boo hiss to the boring old council refusing the lovely seagulls...they are such fun!

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  7. I love the seagulls!! They are so great. It looks as though all of your hard work on the DIY front has been well worth it as the carpet looks lovely and soft and comfy indeed! xx

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  8. Hellooo !
    Ages since i have been on my blog ! IG takes over...hehe !
    Yours is lovely ...
    Maria with a 'twinkly' hug *****

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  9. THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR GLASONBERRY PICS AND PS LOVE THE SEAGULS HX

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