Back to four

Thank you for all your lovely comments on my previous post. You're

 all so kind. I'm sorry I haven't been around much lately, here and over 

on Instagram. I had a busy week last week. My husband was away and

 I had my hands full looking after the girls and doing all the everyday things on my own. I thought I'd be spending my evenings reading and

 doing crochet once the girls were in bed but there was none of those

and there wasn't much time for visiting blogs either. By the time all the

chores were done I was ready for my own bed too. 

Last week was actually a very new and unusual experience for us. 

He's only ever been away once before and that was just in London for

 a night. This time he was thousands of miles away in the east coast 

of America! Quite a distance, I know, and we missed him terribly.

 He went to the wedding of a very dear friend of ours, one of the two 

best men we had when we got married. We couldn't all go to America unfortunately so he had to go by himself (poor him!) In his absence

 the three of us did our best to keep going with our day to day routines and I think we managed it with some help from my in-laws. I'm so grateful to them. We all got a bit ill during the week ('funny tummy' was what it's called around here) but we got through it, we survived. And yesterday he came back-- hurray! And now there are four of us again here and it's definitely lovelier, better, easier and more fun this way. 

Last week was quite a challenge. I had to be more organised, more patient, just more of everything for the girls and it was exhausting.

 It's so nice to be back to 'normal', to not have to think of everything

 for everyone all the time. I can relax again and hopefully there will be time for crochet, reading and catching up with everyone in the next

 few days. 

I hope you're all having a good week. It was quite warm here today
and they say it will be even warmer tomorrow. Enjoy the lovely
weather whatever you're up to!

Light and Shade

A few years ago I bought a very nice wooden lamp base
from a church table top sale for about a pound. It was old but in very
good condition and I remember wanting to skip with joy
on my way home over this lucky purchase (I was heavily pregnant
with my older daughter at that time). I just added a simple lampshade
and it's been happily lighting up our living room eversince.

We still love our old lamp but lately I thought maybe it
can do with a bit of an update. A more colourful lampshade will make it
look better and liven up the corner where it usually sits.
I didn't want to buy a whole new shade though, so decided
to just cover the old one with fabric. I found a helpful video in
You Tube that showed an easy way to do this and last Wednesday,
armed with fabric, paper, glue, ruler, pencil and a pair of scissors,
I set about my first ever lampshade restyle job.

And here's the result: a more colourful, cheerful lamp.

Hooray!

It certainly looks so much nicer and I am very happy. So happy
 in fact that now I want to give the other lampshades in our house
 a little update too. Keep an eye out for more colourful lampshades soon.



Thanks for reading!