Snap Happy

It was such a lovely day yesterday and as I said in yesterdays post I spend most of the day in the garden, well I took loads of photo's so I thought I would share some of them with you.

Down at the Bottom of the Garden

Saturday and the sun is shining!

My veggie match needed sum serious weeding and TLC.

So I spent the day pottering in the garden, and joy of joys some of the veggies were ready for pulling up. New potatoes, lettuces, and a few beetroots.

I'm looking forward to eating them over the weekend.

Gav also pottered in the garden, he had designed a new water feature for the pond and wanted to install it. He decided to take out the waterfall and put in an old tap he had found. It looks great and we have the sound of constant running water, which is really therapeutic & cleans the water in the pond at the same time. The water is pumped up to the tap and then pours out onto a bed of cobbles which has a tank underneath it, then the water goes back into the pond though two pipes and the cycle begins again.

Fabulous Finds

I had the day off today as the Fireplaces were finally fitted!!

While Peter from Pyromania fitted the fireplaces I decided to go and run some errands, which turned into having a cheeky look round some charity shops. I found some fab glass objects for my collection, 2 more jelly moulds, a lovely glass jug which has RAF etched on it and an old cider bottle. I took them home and gave them a good clean up with hot soapy water and they look great. hope you have a lovely weekend xxx

Mother In Laws Loft!

How wonderful is it when you find what your looking for right under your nose!

Or more to the point in your Mother in laws loft!!!

I had been looking for pieces for my blue room for some time now, particularly a mirror & a bed side lamp. I really like the old antiqued gold gilt framed mirrors, and I want a real statement lamp, as I'm only going to have one in the room.

We were on our weekend visit to the parents and I was browsing through You magazine with my coffee as you do!, and happened upon the interiors section in which there was a mirror with a gold gilt frame. I showed Penny who exclaimed with delight that she had one just like that in the loft!! Well that was it we had to go and get it down, and it was just that. Perfect!

She then told me about a lamp which was her mothers that was also buried in the Loft, ceramic turquoise with cherubs on it! Sounded interesting, I don't normally go for cherubs but worth a look. She dug it out for our next visit, It is beautiful just the sort of thing I've been looking for.

She has had it re wired and now all I need is a shade.

These items both belonged to Gav's Grandma's, one from each side of the family. Which is lovely as they have now been passed down through the generations.

They are both now stored ready for the blue rooms final touches.

Thank you Penny for your family heirlooms we will treasure them xx

Today's Finds

What a miserable day after the last 2 weekends of glorious sunshine.

No fun in the Veggy patch today, although I desperatly need to plant out my tomato plants as they are growing fast in the potting shed, hopefully tomorrow will be better.

So instead of playing in the garden I got engrosed in the Ironing, I've never liked Ironing but since the sun shone and I had to get all my summer clothes out I have had to do it and now I'm finding it quite theraputic.

Well Ironing done , I decided to go and visit my local charity shop, just encase there was something I just had to have and you guessed it there was.

A lovely old one pint glass beer jug, to add to my collection of glass objects.

I always find it best do two sweeps of any charity shop as you never know what you might have missed the first time, and yes second time round I found another glass cake stand £3.50, bargain. Not sure where I'm going to keep it but I'm sure it will have a home soon.

Patience is a virtue!

This week has been another busy one, we have been preparing for the fireplaces to be fitted.
The fitting has been pushed back a week which is quite disappointing but also gives us more time to learn how to wallpaper!!

The carpenter did come and scale down the oak fire surround we have bought for the living room, which looks fab.

The blue rooms chimney has been plastered ready for the wall papering which I'm quite nervous about doing as I haven't wallpapered for about 10 years. I have another Batch End Beauty to go up in there, It's a Laura Ashley wallpaper called Kimono in Duck Egg blue.

I can't wait for the room to be finished so I can post some photo's. We just need to get new wardrobe doors, put some shelves up and get the chimney breast & fire place done.

We need carpet too but that will have to wait a while.

I will post photos of our wallpapering experience soon, have a good weekend x

Jamie's Italian - A real treat........

As a treat, work took us to Jamie Oliver's new restaurant in Brighton, Jamie's Italian.

I am a great follower of Jamie Oliver, he makes cooking so simple yet delicious & always shows such passion in what he's doing.

I was very excited about going and sampling the menu, as there was 18 of us it meant I could see and try many of dishes.

We started with the Seasonal Meat Antipasti Plank, which included Seasonal cured meat, Tuscan fennel salami, pistachio mortadella, San Daniele prosciutto and a guest meat, Italian cheeses, buffalo mozzarella, pecorino with amazing chilli jam.

Pickles, curly green chillies, green and black olives Salad, Italian coleslaw with lemon and mint.

And Vegetable Antipasti Plank which included Seasonal vegetables, sliced, char grilled and marinated. Italian cheeses, buffalo mozzarella, pecorino with amazing chilli jam.

Pickles, curly green chillies, green and black olives. Salad, Italian coleslaw with lemon and mint which are placed on the table on top of tins of tomatoes so they are high enough for people to share. Baskets of assorted fresh bread.

Then for my main course I ordered Char Grilled Chop Steak Beef Burger and Funky Chips. Yummy!!

It was enormous! and came on a really cute wooden chopping board and the chips came in a paper cone. All the food was lovely.

Needless to say I couldn't manage desert, so I had mint tea instead which came in a lovely iron tea pot.
I would highly recommend Jamie's Italian in Brighton, we all had a wonderful time and the food, service & surrounding were great xx

Check out Jamie's web site for more details http://www.jamieoliver.com/italian/brighton