A Long Weekend

Important stuff first.

Happy Birthday Mother of Pyjamas. You are the awesome-est mother in the universe. Really. I'm truly amazed you've survived everything I've thrown at you over the years but it's way cool the universe picked you out to be my Mum. Love you. xoxo. It's my Mum's 39th birthday today, which is a neat trick because I'm 44. I'm starting to think I might be adopted...

So this week, I finished all the string blocks for Indy and Lola's quilt.

So, I pushed on and made the top up. Don't look too hard - there are plenty of places the seams don't line up but Indy and Lola aren't quilt critics so it's all good. It's not as puckery as it looks - we're having beautiful spring weather so it was been blown by a gentle breeze. That being said this quilt wont win any sewing prizes. 

Finished the pin up board. Decided to go with the au natural look instead of ribbon.

This is where I sit when I'm communing with y'all. (I'm practicing speaking American today- how'd I do ?) This vista will have a lot more flow  when the computer room re-do is done. At the moment it's a hodge podge of furniture.

Close up Mr. De Mille. I'm pretty happy with it.

Primed the desk drawers and did some more sanding. These are  the drawers in various states of naked-ness. Ever closer to a finish but it wont be happening anytime in the next week or anything so don't get too excited. I'll tell you when.

THE BLACKWOOD CHAIR is finished. Maybe now we can stop talking about it in capitals. I'm waiting for the paint to harden properly before I bring it in and show it off.

I re-upholstered this chair. Ridiculously easy. Took about 30 minutes.

The chair re-do cost zero dollars since I already had the fabric left over from the ottoman re do and got the chair from freecycle for nada.

Got all the windmill blocks all sewn together into pairs (There were 100 pairs. I made Miss P count them this morning with a hangover because I am not a nice mother, apparently I'm a torturer. )Now I need to cut 50 more.

And that's it for this week. You'll notice I bombed on some of last weeks goals. Little P's quilt remains unbound and my mug rugs haven't been touched. Just proving I'm human....

Come back tomorrow. I'm going to cough up that sausage roll recipe someone asked me for months ago as atonement for my perfidy.

Have a great week! (I ate a whole pack of Oreo's while writing this post and feel quite ill...)

P.S. Did I mention I got stabbed this week at work by a darning needle (in the arse if you don't mind ) and had to go to the doctor for a tetanus shot and of course he wanted to look at my wound and I was wearing manky undies again and I really need to get out and buy some new undies because that's twice I've been caught out in a month ?