Meg Gets Crafty in Print

Many, many thanks to the very lovely Huma of Her Little Place for featuring this blog in her article on Do-it-Yourself Christmas Presents in Sunday's Observer. It was a great pleasure to have the chance to speak about two of my favourite things; Christmas and crafts and very exciting to see Meg Gets Crafty in print.

Her Little Place has had had a fabulous makeover recently (although it was pretty darn fabulous before) and is brimming with lovely ideas so, if you haven't already done so, I would definitely recommend a visit.

In other news our kitchen is so close to being finished I can almost taste it! Our beautiful yellow Cole & Son Cow Parsley wallpaper is now up on the chimney breast and the floor is nearly complete. I wondered if we were really going to be able to stick to our plan of finishing before Christmas but it really looks like we might well get there! So that should mean some photos for you all very soon. It's been at the expense of Mr Crafty's poor hands which are now covered in blood blisters, cuts and scrapes from working on the floor but it looks so pretty I hope he will agree that it is worth all our hard labour in the end!

Finally I haven't forgotten my blog award from Zoe at Conversation Pieces and the promised post on personality traits will be on its way shortly.

Almost there...

I am so excited I can barely contain myself! After what seems like eons of thinking about our kitchen facelift, planning colours, chosing worktops etc., the end is finally in sight.

Our gorgeous worktop handmade from reclaimed wood arrived just over a week ago. Lidster and Son did an absolutely stunning job on it. Even though it has been joined, sanded and oiled you can really see the age of the wood and all the various markings which chart its history. I love it!

The above photo is a sneak peek of it in situ along with our new tiles. We are mid way through wallpapering the chimney breast and Mr C has a few days off to lay the engineered oak floor we bought second hand from eBay. It won't be too long before I have some before and afters for you!

P.S The lovely Zoe at Conversation Pieces has awarded me the fantastically titled Shoulda Been a Stripper award!! A post on seven personality traits is to follow....

And the winners are...

Thank you again to Conversation Pieces and Eden Rose for my Lemonade Award!

As promised I am now passing it on. A number of my daily reads who I would have instinctively nominated have been recent recipients of this award (including the lovely ladies above who sent the award my way) so I decided to include some blogs that I have only just discovered but that I am sure I will be visiting regularly from now on alongside some that are already firm favourites of mine.

So without more ado here are my nominees...

le petit oiseau
Paper Leaf Studio
What Katie Does
Tales of a jUnkaholic
Moments Of Pleasure....
Grant-Riley Weddings
A(nother) Rennovation Blog
Slices of Beauty
Kay Loves Vintage
Katy Elliott

For the winners, share the love and pass it on… here’s what to do….
1)Put the Lemonade Award logo on your blog or post

2) Nominate at least 10 blogs that show great attitude or gratitude
3) Link to your nominees within your post
4) Let the nominees know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog
5)Link to the person from who you received your award

Of Kitchens, Chairs and Lemonade

After a productive Sunday testing out some melamine primer on one of our kitchen cabinet doors and scoring four Danish style teak chairs on freecycle (more of them soon) I logged on to find out that I had been given not one but two Lemonade awards from two of my favourite bloggers Eden Rose and Conversation Pieces. Thanks so much ladies!! I only started this blog in Feb so I feel like a relative young'un in blogging terms so I am truly touched to recieve these. I will be back with my nominees before too long.