More new house pics, as promised :)

Dear Friends

Thought you might like to see how we're getting on, now that we've finally moved back into our house, and building work complete, hurray!

Here are some pics of our new/old house, each room within our old 1930's house is either new, or has had a complete facelift. The house has had a complete refurbishment, and boy what a journey it has been! The outside has now had a lick of paint, new flashing, guttering, canopy, drive and side gate, and boy what a difference, soooo much better that before.
I have since added a lovely pancy hanging basket, which looks really lovely too, so nice to see flowers after such a long Winter :)

Anyway, still lots to do, and many rooms are not yet finished, but we're getting there and it's finally starting to look like a home again, phew!

Still to show pics of my lovely new crafty space, so keep popping by for the grand reveil, soon to come, lol!

Hugs and lots of craftyness!
Suzie xxxxx :)

Feeling Inspired....

Dear Friends

As so many of you know, I've not had the opportunity to craft in soooo very long.
But just wanted to share this with you.

This is a YouTube vid I simply adore!!! and must have looked at it 100 times at least, lol!

I hope to gain inspiration and ideas to create my very own mini album dedicated to my Dad, who (if I've got my dates right) turns 70 later this year.

I've made several mini albums in the passed, some of which I have added to my blog, but they've always been very pretty and girly.

I love the style of this, masculin and some what vintage with a bit of Tim Holtz thrown in for good measure, I just love it!!!

I would also love to make one dedicated to my wonderful Nan who sadly passed away three years ago, and no doubt there will be several other people I will want to make one for along the way, if I don't run out of steam by then :)

I just think this is such a lovely idea and one that I thought I would share with you, as perhaps there is/was someone special in your life who you would also like to dedicate an album to.

Anyway, here it is...
I really love this, and hope you do to!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF_8hORGQD0


Hugs and happy viewing :)

Suzie xxxx :)

Our building Journey.....

Dear friends

Thought I'd finally share with you some of my housey pics and take you through some of our building journey.

Sadly, so, so many of my before and during photos have been lost, I can't tell you how sad I feel about that, mostly because I wanted to make a little mini album to look back on and appreciate just how far we have come, and appreciate all that we have managed to gain from our building experience, hey ho, perhaps I'll manage to find some magic software package that will work its wonders and get them back one day :)

Until then, here are the ones I've managed to save :)

Keep posted, more pics to follow....

Hugs
Suzie xxxx

It's been soooo long, but wonderful to be back :)

Evening to all my wonderful bloggers!

Gosh, it seems sooooo very long since I last blogged, last September infact!

Well, after many months (and what seems like a hundred years!!!) we have finally moved back into our new/old house, and boy what a journey it has taken to get there, pheweeeee!!!!!

To explain to anyone passing by, or any blog followers I may still have (I do hope I still have a few :)
We moved out of our home on the 1st of October last year to make way for major building work, yes my crafty pals, our poor home was litterally pulled and knocked to bits, I kid you not!
So much so, at one point we only had two internal walls still standing, and were waving at the birdies in the sky as they flew by, OMG! and during all that snow too!

To say I was pulling my hair out at times is an understatement, and yes, I've had a few meltdown moments along the way, one of which I recall sitting on a very wet chair in what was once my old kitchen with nothing but rubble around me, and watching the snow flakes falling inside my house, thinking OMG!!! what have we done?!!!

Anyway....
nearly six months later, we are finally in, yippeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
there's still some work to be done, mainly snagging, the drive, and we still have the scaffolding up, lol! oh and still no curtains and blinds, yikes! Oh, and the odd door still needs hanging, oh and loads of painting still to be done, hmmm, yes, putting it like this, there still is a lot to be done, but heck, we're in, and it feels FAB!!!!!!!!!!

I promise to post some pics of our new/old house very soon. One thing though, I sadly lost all my before and some of my during pics, I was so upset, but hey, I have my memories, and will post what I can.

I hope you are all keeping well, I have missed you all so much, and promise to try and catch up with your blogs very soon :)
Oooh, forgot to mention, the best bit of all, I have now gained my very own little crafty spot, hurray!!!!

Hope to catch up with you all v.soon!

Biggest Hugs to you all, it's soooo good to be back!

Suzie xxxxx :)

It's about to start, so a little bye bye for now...

Hello dear friends :)

Just a little note from me to say, I'm sorry I've been such a naughty blogger and not been keeping things up to date, what a pain that life seems to get in the way sometimes, and prevents us from doing the things we enjoy, lol!

Thank you for all your lovely comments on my blog I appreciate every single one :) and I'm so sorry I'm a little behind on mine, but will catch up as soon as I can, I promise :)

Well, the time has come to say goodbye for a little while, as our building work begins on our house on the 4th October, gulp!

I really feel a little out of my depth with all of this, as we've never had anything major like this done before, as every room will be altered or changed in some way, yikes!!!

I just can't wait for my home to feel like my home again, as things have felt very unsettled for a long time, but hopefully it will all be worth the effort, as the saying goes... "you can't make omelettes without breaking eggs".

What joy, to chuck dirty dishes in a dishwasher (that works!), open a kitchen drawer without the bottom falling to the floor, or waking up in the morning to lovely piping hot water, and not having to hope that the pilot light has decided to play silly buggers in the middle of the night, so that there's icicles dripping from tap, lol!

As yes, it will be worth it (I hope! :)

So, for now my lovely crafty pals, I will say a little farewell, but not goodbye, as I promise to back as soon as I can, hopefully with lots of before and after pics, and oodles of craftyness.

Lots of love and happy sparkles to you all.

Happy Crafting and chat to you all again very soon!

Suzie xxxxxxx :)

A big hello and a few random things..... :)

Hi Everyone, long time, no blog!

And what a naughty blogger I've been too!
Things are still very much up in the air with our house, but hopefully this is the last leg of it before the builders start.

Meanwhile, everything has been crazy in preparation, so I'm so sorry for not being around to catch up with all your lovely blogs.

As you may have noticed, my blog has had a bit of a makeover too. I loved my old blog, but was about to loose the images due to the blog providers site changes, boo hoo!
Oh well, at least I've managed to find another owl to keep me company, twit twoo :)

I thought I would show you a few things I've been up to, along with some packing up photos.

I've been very naughty lately and bought the WRMK Cinch, boy what a whopper! As you can see next to my BIA, but I love it!!!!!!!!!!
I also bought some wonderful paper stacks, two of them are boys paper which is fab for me, living with so many males, lol! And as we all know, crafting for males can be soooooo tricky!

I also decided to treat the kids to some crafty bits, so with the help of some fun paint and large stones from the garden, we set to work on making some rock people, and we think they look great!
My youngest (Robbie) who's nearly six loved making these (as you can tell from the photo, it was very hot that day, lol!)
My eldest who's nine is in sunny Dublin visiting his grandparents at the moment, but I know he will love these too! Hi Zach, if you're reading this xxx :)

Also, I'm still deciding on worktops for the kitchen, I think we may go for real wood, as I just love the warmth of wood.
The only problem is.... the kitchen fitter brought round walnut and oak, oh no!!! I love them both!!!!!


Anyway my lovely crafty pals, sorry once again I've not being around to catch up with the news and all your wonderful blogs, promise to sort that out soon!

Big Hugs!

Suzie xxxxxxx :)

Feeling overwhelmed with STUFF!!!!

Hi Everyone!

I'm afraid I don't have anything crafty to show you today, as the big sort out/ pack up has now begun!

As some of you may already know, we're about to embark on having our whole house extended and renovated.
This mammoth task involves packing up the full contents of our house, shed and attic and moving out, whilst the builders move in, yikes!

Over the last few days, I have powerwashed all our decking, and yesterday was spent repainting it all, pheweeee, it was soooo hot too!

Why?! I hear you ask, if we're about to have our whole house done up?
Well, it was in urgent need, and as the decking will be staying, thought best to do it now as we may not have the good weather to do it once the builders are finished.


I honestly never thought we had soooooo much stuff though!
Not so bad when everything is tucked away, but once you start pulling out cupboards, drawers, little hide away places, out of season clothes, kids toys (passed and present) not to mention emptying the shed and attic, it all starts to become a little overwhelming (to say the least :) and that's without even starting going through all my crafty stuff,lol!


Seriously though, I hate clutter, so how has this happened? It really makes you start to look at things in a whole new light.
Where did it all come from? do I really still need it all? so many things we have are still in beautiful condition, but have either been outgrown by my children, me, or my waist line, lol! What's a girl to do???

As much as I hate clutter and love the sense of calm and order, I somehow never seem to get there. I think I need to be more ruthless, but soooo many things have sentimental value and memories, and then ofcourse there's the stuff you never seem to use, but hold onto it, just incase it comes in handy one day, lol!

In a quest to be more ruthless, I've been watching a lot of UTube vids on clearing your clutter, mainly with Peter Walsh, he's just brilliant!!!!!!!!!

Meanwhile, I'd better plough on with sorting out the "STUFF"
If you don't see me blogging for a while, perhaps send someone round to find me, I be hiding under all the C L U T T E R!!!!!!!!

Big hugs to you all!

Suzie xxxxxx :)


PS. I will try and take stage photos to give you some idea of the major task before us, that's if I can find the camera under all this stuff!