First things first. Thank you. No really, thanks ever so. For all your kind and supportive comments this week. It has meant a lot. And you are right. Of course you are, you clever people. The right place will come along at the right time. When it does it will be fabulous. Until then I intend to enjoy what we already have here, which is pretty good I must say. And hello to those of you who pressed the button, and joined. Is it wrong to get such a kick out of it? Does it massage my ego just a little bit? It can't fail to can it? It makes me feel good, so thanks. Again.
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Happy things from the week. Joining in with Jen at Little Birdie.
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The conservatory/playroom finally got it's third and final coat of paint at the weekend. The blinds went back up, and I had a happy hour or so of putting stuff back and re-arranging the place. Pottering heaven. I'll be honest, I was unsure about the hit of colour I'd decided upon. The whole house is white. I have stayed away from colour for several years. But I love it now. It's such a sunshiny happy room. This room works hard. We use it all the time. And I've finally been able to put my new oilcloth on the table. I bought it this time last year. Hooray!!
A Good Book
This month's book group read. It's good. I mean seriously good. The sort of good you want to savour. The sort of good that is so good, you feel a little in awe/envious of the talent behind it, and the mind that it sprang from. How happy am I that minds like these exist.
Fresh bed linen
Freshly laundered. Freshly ironed. On the bed. Can't wait to get in this evening.
Skip Find
I don't know about you, but I always seem to be reading articles where the person furnished their house from skip finds. I don't know where these skips are. I've never found one. Until last week. Olly and me were returning from a walk with Honey. Three houses up from me there was a skip in the drive. This chair was perched on the top. I know!! It's mine now. And yes I did knock and ask "may I, please?" Now do I paint it, or live it as it is? What do you think?
There you go. Happy things. Happy, happy, happy.
Leanne xx
Such a lucky find - I too wonder where all these skips are.
ReplyDeleteI do know they are quite hard to paint, but I guess it's all about personal taste.
Good luck,
Nina x
Wonderful find, lucky you. I never find any treasures in skips either. One day maybe... Love your conservatory. Hope you had a nice couple of hours peace today. I know how hard little boys with too much energy at 5.15am can be.
ReplyDeleteHi Leanne, I have never found anything in a skip either!! I always have an irresistible urge to go back in the dead of night and have a good old rummage. Your chair is lovely, are you going to paint it or anything?
ReplyDeleteP.S. I really love your conservatory too.It looks lovely and bright and sunny.
PPS there is nothing to beat getting into freshly laundered sheets, I have just brought our bedding in off the line and theres a fabulous smell. Cant wait to hit the sheets!
What a great chair to find in a skip - the only skips I see are filled with brick rubble. Your newly decorated room definitely has a seasidey feel to it and I love your pretty bedlinen.
ReplyDeleteI really love the colour of your conservatory and it works so well with the blue sideboard and the blue chair. What a lovely space you have created there!! It is so hard when our little ones have so much energy and we don't know how to get them knackered, hard work! I really enjoy Margaret Atwood's books, so thanks for the reference here. As for skip finds, I have to confess I have been very lucky in the past, but my oh my you have found a gem!! That my dear is striking gold. Lucky you!! Enjoy your lovely and clean bedlinen xoxo
ReplyDeleteGreat happies! I think I'd leave the chair in it's original pink/gold - what a fabulous find!
ReplyDeleteHello Jay, thanks for stopping by. I think I am going to leave it in it's original state. It reminds me of a similar chair that was my mother in law's
DeleteLeanne xx
I love your yellow walls, it makes for such a warm and sunny space. I too wonder where these magical skips exist for I've certainly never seen one. The chair has "good bones" so would be lovely repainted with a new cushion cover, or just left in it's present state. xx
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