Sewing room ... we're getting there :)

DH and I have been hard at it since yesterday morning and all our hard work has paid off ... we have finished decorating the loft / sewing room tonight and I can start moving alll my stuff back up there next week ... yay!!!

He's an absolute star ... as I am writing this, he has just popped out to buy us some chocolate ... well, I reeeeeeeeally needed some:

You'll remember before all the fixing the unsafe roof-building work began, we had to empty the loft and the room looked like this:

And this was where we'd got to when we stopped at 7pm tonight: 

Whilst DH pva glued the new plaster yesterday, I discovered an amazing new painting experience - Annie Sloane's chalk paint ... in pink - of course! My new blanket airer (quilt holder?!) got the treatment first:

Followed by my last year charity shop find cubby hole display unit:

Then a cheap old TV table we'd forgotten we had:

The walls are painted 'apple white' and whilst I had that pink paintbrush in my hand, the door trims got a coat too!

It's amazing stuff - one coat covers all (except the dark brown varnished display unit - it needed two) and so nice to use. DH even gave the inside of the ugly old windows a coat:

Very happy ... very proud of what we've achieved ... oh, and very very tired :)

Birthday Giveaway :)

Thank you for all my birthday wishes - I'm 45 today ... that seems such a big number but I'm not counting!! I have had a lovely day - worked the first half of the day and came home to lots of cards and prezzies and DH had bought me flowers and put some pink bubbles in the fridge which we're now drinking ... Mmmmmm :)

We're chilling at home tonight (hence my blogging!) as my 'birthday night' is a West End dinner and The Bodyguard musical on Thursday night ... yay! I love the film (must have seen it a dozen times) and I hear the singing performances are fantastic - I'll let you know :)

My bestest two presents were sewing related ... of course! Firstly, I have wanted a pink rotary cutter for like forever. Don't ask me why ... it's just a 'tool' (apparently!) so it shouldn't matter but I wanted one. 

You can't buy them anywhere in the UK, I couldn't even find them in the good ol' US of A but 'down under', they sell them! And if you find a lovely eBay seller like Shelley, she will post stuff really quickly from Australia to the UK :) So, here's present #1:

Now, present #2 is another eBay find. Note to self: 'read the product description properly'!! I am very very pleased with this sewing cabinet but I honestly don't think in centimetres - we might have had decimalisation since the 1970s but me? I only do feet and inches so when I saw its dimensions were 60cm x 30cm x 30cm, I definitely thought it was going to be a bit bigger than this ... hey ho:

I love it, it's 'cute' and I am sure I'll fill those 'little' drawers up with something!

So, onto my birthday giveaway. I am starting a new project this week: I think it's going to be a 70" x 50" lapquilt - not entirely certain until I draw it all out. Here are the fabrics I'll be using:

The prize is I will make you a cushion (pillow) or an iPad Case or a Pants Bag (check out my Other Finishes 2013 page) of your colour choice and I'll also throw in some surprise Fat Quarters for you.

So you get one chance to win just for leaving a comment on this post saying what you'd like me to make you and in what colours and a second chance if you guess correctly what the theme is of the quilt I'll be making! 

The Giveaway is open to everyone. It closes next Tuesday at 2100 UK time. Happy guessing!! 

Giveaway now closed = 2100hrs on 30th April