Where has the week gone ?

September is flying by and can hardly believe it's been over a week since my last blog.
Have been very busy this week and have had some good things some bad. The bad first - two of the children have been very poorly with chest infections and youngest had a burst eardrum. Sounds much worse than it is, she was fine once it had burst as the pain ebbed away. But think my Florence Nightingale image is now seriously dented after a week of 5am shouts of ' mum, my throat still hurts - can I watch Hannah Montanna'. Mmm I think she is better now and its off to school tomorrow.

Good news - it has been a great week for bargains. Since joining the Shabby Chic Cafe I have been so inspired and the house is filled with bargains and paint pot samples and sand paper!

Picked up a lovely pine desk from freecycle (its just had its 1st coat of paint so will upload when its completely finished.

this is going in my bedroom as I really need to be organised.

Other bargains came from the carboot. It's a really huge carboot but normally there are just loads and loads of mums selling baby stuff, which was great 7 years ago but I really never want to see another tommi tippe nappy squidgee thing. The gorgeous clock below was bought by my eldest daughter and she gave it to me when we got out of the car - so pleased as she's a uni student not on much money so was very thoughtful. I am not dwelling onthe £20 I 'lent' her to actually go to the carboot as it's the thought that counts. Will take pics of the rest of the stuff over next couple of days and post. Just busy busy at the moment sanding and painting. Am struggling to get a good finish so going to ask the experts at the Cafe how to get rid of paint lines.
If anyone knows how to add weblinks in the blog please let me know. I have come across some beautiful inspirational blogs and would love to share them .
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