SUNDAY SO SOON!

It's been a busy week! The powers that be decided I should work the Friday, so that's what I did.
But it was not a problem as it's the School half term, so the roads were lovely and clear and the days passed steadily.

I meant to post a photo yesterday but got caught up in gardening, so left it too late to take a photo for the blog.

But here's a photo of Ashley admiring the roses.

She's wearing, a new to us, double smocked Ruth Hartley dress in a gorgeous lemon.

On the house front, we decided to cut down the original worktop that was here , so that it would be long enough to put the coffe machine back over this side. It also means that we won't need to remove the boarding upstand at the back , just repaint it once we decide what colour we are going for and also add the extra boarding to finish off the area to the right , which never got done last time!
We also decided to put up two of our new pictures that we bought last year.
It will all need to come back down when we decorate but at least they are finally up and out the way!

All our box needs the Chelsea chop! Paul started with the two cones either side of the entrance to this area as they were getting so close together , you got soaked if it had rained and you needed to pass!
You are not supposed to cut them when the sun' shinning, so we'll do them each evening until the jobs complete!

We also trimmed back this area and pulled up the weeds in the path, so again we can get round without fighting our way through. We still have more to do cleaning up and weeding in this top area.

Our roses are putting on a wonderful display with blooms everywhere and buds waiting their turn to shine! This Mannington Mauve rose looks great on both sides of the trellis.

The Mannington on the other side of the trellis !

We've rearranged this area, moving the 'table' round to this side and making a higher ledge at the back to display our more tender scented geraniums and some Fushia's and Calla Lilies.

Paul made up some dough and we've just had half a bacon baguette for lunch !

 and it was delicious!


On another note, I have spent some time this morning trying to find a piece of clothing belonging to my Kaye Wiggs doll for a shot I want to do! Despite getting out almost all my dolls clothes boxes I still cannot locate the time! I have too many clothes for my Sasha's! I know this but do I bite the bullet as they say and actually do something about it? no ! I think about doing something and then another week passes!

But this is the time of year when I start getting serious about all the things around the place including dolls and clothes! So instead of just putting the boxes back, they are sitting in the living room waiting for me to go through them and try and reduce four boxes down to TWO! and I am determined to do this, so I'll be putting things on the Sasha Bazaar and also my sales page and then if they don't sell there , they'll go on ebay !
Less is more......

Well before that can happen I'm off to the garden centre in search of ONE plant to go in my hallway... ONE!

I'll leave you with another photo of the lovely Ashley and a reminder that tomorrow is Doll shelf photo day, so please send in your shelf photos so we can all enjoy seeing what everyone's dolls are up to and wearing this month.
Enjoy the week ahead!

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