Gifts

Yesterday I featured a beautiful handmade heart from Mochipan.



I took part in the Folksy St. Valentine's heart decoration swap and was absolutely delighted to receive this lovely decorative pin. I in turn sent my heart decoration to Louisa





Also I won my very first blog giveaway from the lovely lalabibaby ooooo, it was so exciting opening the package









How cute is this, a darling little book explaining about quilting traditions and the attached bookmark has a little thimble dangling from it


So a huge big thank you to Debbie, I was absolutely thrilled.

Mr. P is also thrilled. Virgin Media delivered his V+ HD box today, so now he can watch everthing in HD (when he gets his new TV on Saturday) and he put his beloved Sky Sports on the package also - so football all the way. Well there is always Wimbledon to look forward to I suppose!

Now I just have to work out, in a technophobic sort of way, how to use the darn thing!

Jak

Windolene

That can only mean one thing.................yup, Mr. P's decorating.

Oh dear .................................



He assures me that one has to break a few eggs to make an omelette and he has yet to sand the floor - that's why I haven't posted for over a week, I'm knee-deep in dust!

Now in Mr. P's defense, it must be said that up until a couple of years ago he worked as a professional painter and decorator, having his own business. So he is a true professional perfectionist when it comes to decorating and, he also assures me, it all relies on proper preparation. I know that he will make a beautiful job, his 'cutting in' is a sight to behold, but, in this case, the journey is not going to be more enjoyable than the destination!

I'm feeling rather overwhelmed, the house is an absolute mess, a real migraine mess.

My kitchen table .....................................



More stuff in my kitchen ......................



and more ..............................................



Then there is the hall ..............................................



Just look at the dust everywhere!

You might ask who in their right mind decorates at this time of year and why? Well the simple answer - new 42" plasma TV arrives next Saturday. My ma-in-law has treated us.

But after all thats said and done, it WILL be so lovely to have the living/dining room newly painted as it has not been done for over 10 years and, I must admit, I had kinda lost interest in it.

Some eye-candy to be going on with, 2 lovely gifts that I have recently received, which I shall post about tomorrow ................................



hopefully!

Just to finish (honestly), I would like to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has left me comments and supported my new blog.

Jak

Down-Sizing

Our TV gave up the ghost between Christmas and the New Year. This was the first TV me and Mr. P have ever purchased. Well that lasted a long time, you may ask? But no, it did not, barely 5 years. Up until that point we had always accepted, very gratefully, Mr. P’s parents’ cast-off TV’s. The TV had been going wrong for months, the on-off button was jammed and if anyone’s head appeared in the top half of the scene they looked like the incredible hulk, very green indeed. Also, George (the technophobe German Shepherd) had demolished the remote control, so all in all, the TV was hanging on by its last thread.

Exit 32” TV, to be replaced with the kitchen TV (also kindly donated by Mr. P’s parents). I envisaged a few problems here. Firstly Mr. P and I have separate rooms. He sits in the kitchen of an evening and I take to the living room. Please do not think that he has been banished, because this is not so and I think it would take the incredible hulk himself to banish Mr. P. anywhere (Leo, don’t you know).

Mr. P is quite happy in the kitchen whereby he has a choice of TV or computer and sometimes both at the same time. Except when Manchester United are playing then he really pulls rank and insists that he watches on the ‘big’ telly. Now all us ladies know that men are fixated with size, but I could never understand why I would be ousted from my nest so that he could watch an extra 4” of TV. You see, the TV that used to be in the kitchen is 28”!

Well, I must admit, aesthetically. the 28” was more pleasing, fitting into the fireside alcove very nicely without the 32” big fat bottomed, flat screen sticky-outedness. Unfortunately 3 weeks after this swap-around, 32” + stand are still sitting in the middle of my living room. Why I would need to ask Mr. P to dispose of it is a very perplexing conundrum!

28” obviously did not like Law & Order, Escape to the Country or even Criminal Minds, because it too packed up last Sunday. Enter No. 1 son’s TV, the 17”. Where is 28”, yes you have guessed, Mr. P put this about 2’ in front of my chair which blocks the remote control signal to the Virgin Media box, but makes a very useful foot stool. Now, as I have a prolapsed disc, I did ask Mr. P to move this after a couple of days assuming that even he could see there was some definite overcrowding going on – which he did and 28” now sits on the floor about one foot from where he moved it from.

It must be said, I have never been more pleased that we are skint, because I know Mr. P has his eye on a 50” monstrosity and, of course, that would mean that we would have to share a TV, a room and we all know where that leads, yes, compromise. Such a horrible word, such a let-down word, such a grey, insipid, halfway word!

There is a 12” portable waiting in the wings, but is there enough floor space for 17” too, would a 12” seem palatable to technophobe George, would I even be able to see it (I

suppose Mr. P might be persuaded to move 28” back and then I could rest it on the top) or should I get busy crocheting some doilies to adorn all my new free standing object d’art? Find out in the next thrilling episode of the TV Graveyard saga!