Here are the pictures of our outdoor furniture newly painted.
I hope your Tuesday is going well. I have managed to get all my work done and these other jobs done in between, as well as answering the door for deliveries for the Boys! The weekend is supposed to be nice so with luck we can get into the garden and do a general tidy up and then perhaps the following weekend we won’t have any jobs to do and can do something different!! Wonders will never cease!!!!
Hugs & Love, Susie xx
Just in time for the start of June we finally have some sunshine and it is warm!!!! Hurrah! We are all enjoying it, especially Treacle.
We had another long weekend last weekend so DH and I started painting our sitting room. We had the paint and all the stuff needed but of course things did not go as planned as the Boys put a spanner in the works so we did not start painting until Sunday! It took us all Saturday afternoon and some of the evening to clear the sitting room and now I remember why we don’t paint it regularly!!!!
Here are all the books stacked on the dining table, floor, dresser etc!!!!
We had traumas with the paint we had chosen it was thick and gloopy and did not go on the walls well so we had to go and buy some more paint which was fine. It looks nice and clean now and I am so glad we have finished. There is another long weekend at the end of August and we need to paint our bedroom/dressing room so that will be then. We also need to get the ceilings re-plastered in our den, kitchen and laundry and of course that will need painting when it is dry, but of course that will then make the walls look bad so we may end up painting those too!!
As we have some nice warm days now I am washing curtains/cushion covers/quilts/matress and pillow protectors and getting them all hung outside. Can’t let the sunshine go to waste. I also have all the baskets and bins to wash and they can dry outside too.
This weekend DH and Youngest are going to a new car museum which has opened near us and not only do you get to see the cars you can drive them too!!! I am going to try and get the outdoor furniture re-stained and there is some gardening to do. One weekend soon I am going to do nothing at all!!!
Our Boys are having a few issues with each other at the moment, did you know I am running the Derbyshire branch of the United Nations? As well as a restaurant, Chinese laundry, hotel and all round diary consultant!!!! We are still due to go away in August, so long as the wretched Covid doesn’t start to act up again, and at the the moment we think it will just be DH and I and it will be SO nice to get away!!!!!!!!!!
Of course this week is now a short week and I will be confused all week being a day out but at least the weekend will come round quicker!!! I hope you all are having a great week.
Hugs & Love, Susie xx
DH and I managed to get our dining room painted over the long weekend, despite DH having to have a two hour meeting on Saturday morning regarding swimming!!!! Also Friday went to pot a little bit with a few other things which needed attending to. Anyhoo we managed to get the room cleared and then started getting it done. The picture below is after we had cleared the room and painted the walls.
So we have another long weekend at the end of the month and one more room to do, our sitting room!!! This should be a little easier to do as the walls are light coloured, as you can imagine the Red is quite hard to do with the white ceiling! The biggest thing will be clearing the bookshelves into the dining room, so that will be a job for the Friday. We did also get the dining room Spring cleaned as well so two birds with one stone so to speak!!!
That was our weekend and of course this week is now a short week. I am hoping to get some more spring cleaning done this week but this weekend is going to be chaos as Eldest is leaving his job and starts his new one a week today and we have to sort out things and cars and we are also helping Girlfriend with moving some stuff for Penny and anything else that comes up as well. So that is going to be fun.
It is still really cold here but we are hoping it is going to get warmer soon. Yesterday it rained heavily all day, which is usual for a Bank Holiday!!!
Have a great week you lovely lot.
Hugs & Love, Susie xx
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I watched the funeral of HRH Prince Philip and here are some stills of the day. Although cold it really was a stunning day with the sun shining.
St George’s Chapel.
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At the weekend, which is three days, DH and I will be painting our dining room and getting other jobs done. The weather is not supposed to be very good but this is not a surprise as it is a Bank Holiday and it always rains on Bank Holidays in the UK. At least we are doing inside jobs. I hope your week is going well.
Hugs & Love, Susie xx
Yesterday, the first day that non-essential shops, gyms, hairdressers and pubs could open there were queues at all of them! Rather sad to see lots of people in the pubs at 8.00am!!! Today has also been the same with queues forming waiting for the doors to open and to help out the shops can stay open until 10.00pm if they want to. I think I will give it a few weeks before I venture out to the shops though!!!!
I hope you are all having a great week.
Hugs & Love, Susie
DH and The Boys are busy tomorrow playing cars (!) Youngest has bought himself a project car now so they are going to be moving it to where he will be working on it, which gives me the excuse to do my quilting. I have a few projects to finish and another quilt to quilt and I need to get on with the Memory Quilt I have been asked to do which will be more preparation than anything else. The weather is supposed to be dull and grey again but at least dry for the car movers and I won’t feel guilty quilting if the weather is not good when I should be gardening!!!
Yesterday and today we have had the workers here and they have been re-tarmacing our driveway. We got it done originally when we first moved in and over time bits have come out and then we took the rest of the garden away so we can get all the cars on the drive. Anyway they started yesterday preparing it and then finished it today with new tarmac.
As you know we are in another lockdown, this one being that we can all go to work unlike last March when we couldn’t. If things don’t get better soon then they will be saying we can’t work and already we have things being cancelled or moved again! The first being a business exhibition. There is some muttering about Carnival being held in the village which is at the beginning of July, the problem being that it takes a year to organise usually and we could all do a lot of work and then have to cancel it. I don’t think, until we definitely know how things are going, that we should be arranging anything otherwise everyone will do a lot of work and then it will have to be cancelled again!!!
I saw this, below, on Instagram on the MSQC page and they got it from Little Red Hen. So doing as it says using the first letter of my name and the month I was born, I am Patchwork Pixie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What is your quilting name? Great fun!
Happy Tuesday everyone!
Hugs & Love, Susie (Patchwork Pixie!) xx
Now quilted!
The binding above and the back below.
Youngest’s new furniture arrived and was all made and installed and looks great. He has now got a bit more room for a couple of pieces which will give him more cupboard/draw space which was missing with the old furniture.
We got a new blind for our den where I work. When we first moved in we found a Japanese paper blind and it was great as it let lots of light in but great for keeping the glare off, especially as the window gets a lot of sun in the Spring/Summer. This had been up all the time we had been in our home and had gotten a little grey over the years but I finally found the same blind but with some leaves printed on, same size and everything. Anyway that also arrived on Saturday and it looks so much better now. I also had some gift vouchers for my favourite department store and ordered some new curtains for our dining room. The curtains in there used to be in the dining room at our old home so are quite old and still look okay but are just starting to fade on the edges where the sun gets them. So we ordered new ones. I will get some pictures when they are up.
Am up to date with all my work and home jobs so am going to get my next quilt sandwiched and pinned this evening!
I hope you all had a great weekend whatever you were up to and were allowed to be up to Covid wise and have a great week to come.
Hugs & Love, Susie xx
I have been at my desk all day and this is where madam has been! She does not like the cold like her Mom. Snuggled or what!
Hugs & Love, Susie xx
Sad news today of the passing of Geoffrey Palmer who stared with Dame Judy Dench in the BBC comedy show “As Time Goes By” about two people who knew each other in their early twenties who then meet again in their early sixties and begin a relationship. It was a great show and Geoffrey Palmer was great with Judy Dench. If you can get to watch it do, you will love it.
Whatever you are up to this weekend I hope you have a lovely time.
Hugs & Love, Susie xx
