back to basics...

phew...we are 11 days into the school summer holidays...and it's going well so far...

 the apple jackets went down really well with the school teachers and assistants on the last day...

since then we have visited my parents in the North East and played some good old board games...

visited Sheffield for a wedding...

 and celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary...these Pick N' Mix were our pressie from the little people...lovely

i haven't been up to much 'craftyness' recently...i can usually watch/listen to films in the evening whilst i do a bit of crocheting...but the Olympics need 100% attention!!!

i have managed to tidy up my craft room (spare bedroom) a bit so at least i can find what i need to be getting on with some new crafty projects...

it's lovely to take a step back from my 'term-time' life...it really makes me realise how busy those weeks are with school and clubs etc, so we are enjoying not dashing around and just taking it easy for a while...till the madness starts again!

rainy days...doing days...

so it's peeing down today....

 and has been since yesterday morning and it's also quite chilly....the type of chill to give  you brain freeze...i'm not going to waffle on about the weather too much tho...because it is what it is and we can't change that...so just buy a decent rain coat and get on with life eh?!?

but on days like this it's nice to have a project on the go...

and my latest is to transform this bookcase (rescued from a neighbours garden in the snow) which really is just a shambles of odd bits of wood very roughly put together and holding on tight by a wing and a prayer...to something a bit more....well, a bit more of bobby dazzling!

with the help of my trusty friends Mr Farrow and Mr Ball...

hopefully in a day or two and after a couple more undercoats, the poor sorry bookcase will be wearing a new jacket...

and then....

 i bought this old wallpaper off Ebay (it smells really old so it must be!!!!!) and i was thinking of putting it down the back of the shelves (because you can actually see daylight through them at the mo...as you can see in the pic)

and after that, i will carry the whole thing back upstairs and plonk it in my crafty room and pop lots of useful bits and bobs on it's shelves and there it will live happily ever after...

The End