Ok, so her room was always messy, but this what happened when we started to tear things out….. chaos!!

We have three bedrooms in our house and five people, while they were sharing the girls had the largest room, we had the middle room and Zac got the box room. Ebony moved out so I decided it was time to take back some extra space and move into the big room! (There is still room for her to stay over, you know, just in case!)

Zacs room got a makeover earlier in the year and when I asked if he wanted the middle room he declined, so it was eventually time to tackle The Great Transformation…..

Years ago we had built bunk beds (that were high enough to have desks underneath) on two of the walls, that meant the first day was spent deconstructing (is that a word?) those.

The Velux window had to be treated, which we did on a nice dry day…. only to have the heavens open and trying to put it back into place was fun I can tell you!

There are two windows in this room which make it really light, I chose Dulux Warm White for the walls and the new floor is a light maple, making the whole room light and airy.

Here is a sneak peak of the finished room – i’ll add the rest of the photos in the next post.

While we were doing all that, Mollys room had to be finished since she is coming home on Monday (yeah!!! can you believe the time is up?) so we have been living in a DIY state of chaos for almost three weeks!

It is totally dreamy to wander into our new bedroom now – I keep opening the door to make sure it hasn’t changed back to the way it was!

Anyway more piccys to come soon!

Thanks for looking in x x x x

Well, how are you? I am fine, more than fine actually!

Here is the latest Polly to join the family, ” There is nothing worse than normal” the first lot of printing didn’t turn out well, buts that the beauty of painting – paint over it and start again!
I have just made some prints of her to bring to the Ballylongford craft fair tomorrow. Along with cushions, fridge magnets, keyrings and notebooks its going to look like Polly World!!!!

What else? well………. yesterday Tim retired from his job after 43years of service!!!! (well deserved i’d say!) and since my Etsy shop is empty, my blog is neglected, there are craft fairs that i’m missing because I dont’ have time to make things, its probably the last summer that my son wants to spend time with me and I have a million things to catch up on…….. I decided to retire too!!!!!!!!

That is actually an exaggeration! what i’m doing is taking the whole month of August off, and then in September I hope to get a part time job and make a serious attempt to sell art…. there i’ve said it out loud!!! its now out in the universe for everyone to hear…… scary!!!!!

There is a major decoration/ swapping of rooms going on at the moment, so i’m actually hoping it rains for the next few days. If the sun shines, i’ll be gone and there will be nothing done! I have a sneaky suspicion that “the whole month of August” will turn into, “what? its september already?!”

Thats my news, i’m packing boxes for the fair tomorrow and will report back on all the things I bought while I was there!

Enjoy your weekend,
Felicia x

At 4 o clock this morning Molly was checking her bag onto her flight at Cork airport. She stayed up all night since we had to leave home at 2.30am and decided that she would sleep on the long flight instead.
She should arrive in Nairobi at 6.30pm our time to a whole new experience, 42 degrees, different foods, staying with people she doesn’t know, making new friends , meeting the children at the school and generally having a ball!!!!!

I was SOOOO good, I didn’t cry!!!! she was so excited going through the gate, she hasn’t been out of Ireland on her own before, let alone all the way to Africa, but she will be fine. She will be back in 4 weeks, and I will miss her, but what an amazing opportunity!
As soon as I get a phone call to say she is there safe I will relax a bit…. i’m sure all you Mums out there will understand that.
so that is how our Sunday has been, how about yours??
F x x x x x x

So Saturday was THE BIG RACE!! it started rainy and windy at 5.30 am when I got up to eat peanut butter and nutella sandwiches and a banana…..

I think I should say that “Maxi Marathon” is a bit misleading, am I the only one who thinks it suggests further than 26.2 miles?? I think it was because half marathons are “Mini marathons” and this was 15 miles. But getting back to the story…..

We (all 1000 and some competitors) were taken by bus through Molls Gap to the Sneem road, I had thought we were starting from the lake but we kept driving for another mile and a half. From there the rain stopped briefly and off we went!

Its amazing how fast the crowd thinned out, we could see the fast runners way off in the distance after half a mile. Judy ( my running buddy and good friend) and I ran 10 minute miles for the first 8 and then my knee decided to give up!! I was SOOO disapointed, Judy did very well and ran almost all of the course, but I walked/ ran untill the half marathon mark (13.1 miles) and then walked the last bit with a jog to the finish line!!

The atmosphere was great, so many happy people at the finish line, my time was 2 hours 48 minutes. I had hoped to finish in less than 3 hours so I was pleased with that.
On the back of the shirt they gave everyone it says, ” I completed the worlds most beautiful road race” and I am very proud to have it!!!!!!

I spent Sunday painting and creating and taking it easy, then went to see Harry Potter, so all in all it was a great weekend!!

Today I learned to be careful what you wish for – cos you might just get it……
Scary? yes,
Exciting? yes
Can I do this?……… lets wait and see!!!!!!!

Hello!!! remember me??
this morning i sat down to look at the blogs I follow and found literally dozens, I was delighted, I love reading all these posts.
BUT, every time I tried to leave a comment blogger wouldn’t let me! “choose a profile! so I did, and then it says, ” choose a profile” its the same profile i’ve been using since I started my blog!

So I would just like to say this, to Jane, Kay, Jenni, Christa, Ebony, Dharma, Ruth, Louise, Katherine, Amelie and all you other lovely ladies, I’m not ignoring you, I wanted to leave comments, it just won’t let me…… so the next thing is…. does anyone know how to fix this???? is it just me?????

The Polly in the picture is still not finished, but she is getting there – she might have stood a better chance if I hadn’t given in to the patchwork quilt!
I have never started quilting because firstly you need space (of which I have none left!) and secondly I knew it would become an obsession! so far, the quilt i’m making is REALLY simple, just squares, but really pretty ones. I will take some photos today when i’m working on it.

The other thing that is taking up all my spare time is running. I started running last March to take part in the Easter 5 mile fun run, and some how got ropped into a 15 mile run that takes place on 16th July!
I’m following a training plan but I find that if I run 6 miles for the first time I think its a fluke, so i have to do it again to prove i can do it. I’m up to 8 miles comfortably but yesterday when I attempted 10 my knee suddenly stopped bending and I had to hobble back to the car.

This is not good!! i’ll go to the physio on Monday to see what can be done.

So, thats all my news,
If you can’t leave comments for me here then maybe Facebook?

Have a lov-er-ly day! x

While the cat is away…. the mouse will craft!!

Tim has gone on one of his mountaineering expeditions that do not resemble a holiday in any shape or form! He is on the Isle of Skye in Scotland sleeping out on mountains in a bivvy bag having carried every drop of food and water , ropes and climbing gear for miles and miles……

He and 7 of our friends think that is fun, what can I say??

Sooooo…… while he went off to do that, I got to go to the craft fair in town. It wasn;t overly busy but I knew alot of the other people and so we had a lovely day in the sunshine, listening to live music and visiting in each others stalls (which were actually wooden sheds and very cosy!)

The Polly cushions are growing in number, but other then that I didn’t take any photos…. what was I thinking?!

This is my desk this morning, the weather looks a little dull, so i’m painting and drinking coffee in my p.j’s and thinking I might get dressed soon and walk the dog. A perfect start to the day!!

A Polly in progress! I’m not sure what she will look like in the end…. but since tomorrow is a bank holiday I have lots of time to think about it.

Well, this is new – kinda!
Tim found this in one of his many storage places, a never used telephone from some time last century…. I have no Idea when it was made but I LOVE IT!!!!!
He has always found my taste a little strange but now there is no doubting it, this ancient dial phone has replaced the hand held one in our bedroom. It takes forever to dial a number and if you make a mistake your doomed, when it rings it would wake the dead, but I love the roundiness of it and the sound of the dial.

Guess what else?? well, this morning I thought, “I didn’t get a bill from Etsy at the end of May” and then I realised it was because I hadn’t added anything for a whole month…. so i thought it obviously isn’t for everyone and i’ll just let it go. Then this evening I got home to find that I had made my first ever Etsy sale!!!!!!!!

Hooray!!!!!

A women in England (thank you Ruth!) found my shop amongst thousands of others and parted with her hard earned cash for some of my art……. I am pretty amazed and thrilled!

I know this blog has been neglected of late, life just gets like that doesn’t it? I will try and find time to post more often, and maybe even post a craft project (!) Blogger seems to have stopped letting people comment, I dont’ know why but just so you know, I check in every day and read all of your blog updates that appear on the dashboard.

So, thats it for today, there is a craft fair in Killarney this weekend, if you’re around come and say hello!