Cheeky chalk paint

I love this stuff - no surface prep required, slap it on and play around to your heart's content.  

Secret Christmas present goings on aside, the main event was the refurbishment of a chair that had spent several wet winters under my Ma's oak tree - my lovely husband firmed it up with a spot of glue on its aching joints and then it was on with the paint, waxed up and re-seated - and now I have the perfect chair for my crafty corner.  Very happy!  And rather comfy too.

Crafty Corner

Not so much as a stitch on my (everlasting) quilt for months now, but I have been a wee bit busy moving house and trying to tame the new garden.  We moved from the countryside to the outskirts of a city, to be closer to the now-teenage step children for a few years - perhaps not quite so pretty but this house has SPACE - so much that I now have a) almost all of my fabric stash in one place and b) a lovely little corner where I have commandeered an old desk to store all my kit.  I know the summer will whizz on by so am looking forward very much to rainy days while the garden sleeps and my trusty sewing machine creaks back to life - happy crafty days to come.