Flower Power

My room has always been full of flowers whether it be artificial or living, so when I heard a customer talking about trellis as you do I had a eureka moment and decided to buy some trellis for my room, I've painted it green so it looks more cheerful and threaded my artificial flowers through the diamond gaps and you know what I think it looks really cute better then the blutac idea and masking tape which just took the paint off. Anyways here's some photos of my new feature, darling :-)

I've also been making up this felt heart pack that I picked up at John Lewis's, which I think would make lovely Christmas pressies for my friends at work. It really brightens up small places.

My lovely sister Beeky has been busy knitting up teddies for me her first creation is Claude who now sits on my chair that I upholstered a few months ago . He's a very happy panda with a floppy head.

Lovely Pieces of China

Last Saturday I went to York with the parents to test drive my gorgeous new car. I love shopping in York because they have shops that aren't all main stream so you can find some brilliant buys at nice small prices. In this one shop I found this square plate with flowers round the edges for £1.50 so I had to have that, it's so unusual.

As always when in York you have to visit Cath Kidston and I went a bit crazy and bought the red floral mules, a flour shaker, two mugs and I also applied for a job there so fingers and toes crossed.

I have also become a fan of Dunelm its like an Aladdin's cave, there were so many things I wanted to buy so its lucky I had a pad and pen with me so I have nearly sorted out my Christmas list :-) One of the things I did convince myself to buy was the pink cup and saucer which sits on top of the square plate.

I also forgot to put on my last entry about these two plates that used to be my Nana's, I think my Grandad brought them back from Egypt when he was fighting in the war, I love sentimental pieces that have stories behind them it makes it more special.

Lots Of Cute Stuff

I've recently received quite a lot of cute furniture that used to belong to my lovely Nana who passed away earlier this year. The sale of the house has finally gone through so all of her beautiful old furniture was needing a new home, now I don't like to see gorgeous old furniture being pulverised or miss treated so I did the honorable thing and tried to shove the bulk of it in my bedroom which is already bursting at the seams. The first thing I got was my grandads old tall boy wardrobe which was a lot smaller than my Nana's wardrobe which I also wanted but we wouldn't have got it up the first step because of its size.

The other item I'm looking after is the phone table and chair it looks a little bit like a chaise lounge but with a table section. Very beautiful piece. The parents got Nana's side board and also the wall unit which is sat in our garage because it is huge and doesn't like turning corners, typical.

Summer Holiday

The last couple of weeks or more like the past month has been pretty busy.

In September me and my sister Beeky (also pinky the hippo and mini minnie the bunny) went away on holiday to Rhodes and it was gorgeous, the sun was always out unlike un-sunny Stockton and I was with my big sis, no interruptions just the two of us having fun, bliss.

This years holiday was meant to be a relaxing one unlike our last holiday to Rome which saw us walking all over the place, it was a brilliant holiday but very busy and Rhodes was meant to be a relax from the stresses of work however that didn't happen, well it did but we were still pooped by the end of the week.

While in Rhodes I found this cute little shop tucked away in Lindos (the three tier cake) that sold beautiful pottery with so much detail on them, I took a few shots of the shop it was too cute to pass plus I bought a little purple bowl which sits on my grandads tall boy.

I made a couple of friends while away, there was Ruddy the cockerel who went off at 6.30am every morning without fail, even on our first night there (we arrived at the hotel at 5am) hence the name Ruddy. And then there was NooNoo the fly yes I know I shouldn't like them and normally I don't but NooNoo was very well behaved, he would sit quietly while we had our dinner and on the last night he found our room and came to visit, he left not long after as Beeky did threaten to kill him (mean).

In Rhodes town the old section I brought back two tiles which will hopefully fit in with our new kitchen (we're in the middle of decorating so everything's a mess).

Also in Rhodes town we found the cutest dog ever it had the face of a King Charles and this huge body definitely a mix breed so cute.

In Kalithea Springs we both decided to beat our fear of swimming in the sea and jumped in, well climbed in slowly and swam out a little way. It was a very funny paddle because Beeky did a little squeal and I thought she was being eaten by a shark so I squealed and well it ended up being a big slimy rock that cut and bruised my leg. I did try to pass it of as a shark attack but well I still had two legs so it didn't work.

The architecture was stunning everything was made with such detail the floors are mosaics and the buildings are like mini master pieces.

On the day we were meant to be leaving Rhodes to come back home our plane decided to die on us so we ended up in a 5 star hotel I know how awful. Our room was lovely lots of freebies :-) and the food was delicious.

Once home I missed my original train and ended up in York instead of Darlington so the lovely parents drove down to pick me up and then the holiday was over. I was to tired to be sad but the next day I missed my sister, and the wake up calls from Ruddy and little NooNoo. But I did print out the 300+ photos to make a scrap book that only fits 50 photos in, DOH.