SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY...

SUNDAY... yes it's the fourth Sunday in March ! there are five in total.

Some beautiful tulips to set us up for the day .many thanks to Gill and Tony our dinner guests yesterday amid the chaos that is our kitchen at present!


I think I mentioned that I'd been buying some 1930's china last week. It's been arriving however one of the sellers, sent a plate in a flat cardboard , almost envelope style , wrapping and inside wrapped in lots of tissue paper with one small very thin piece of bubble wrap! and in truth to call it bubble wrap was to be generous !
I removed the tissue wrapped plate from the cardboard and could feel and hear the cracked china even before I started cutting through the wrapping.

I started taking photos, so I could send them to the seller.

Such a shame that it should have lasted all these years just to be destroyed by poor wrapping.

Why do people think covering the whole thing in parcel tape will protect what's inside more? The seller refunded me but I cannot bring myself to throw the plate away yet ! I wish I was one of those people who'd keep it and use it sometime to makes some sort of mosaic ..


So we have continued to remove old kitchen wall cupboards,

We have to work round this piece of concrete and brickwork that's tied into the corner by some metal work. There used to be a chimney in the bedroom above and we think this was some sort of support.

We did try taking it out before but when we saw the metal rods running through it we decided it was best to leave it in place. Which is what we'll do this time too.
So the new top cupboards are going in slightly higher than the old one's to line up with the new cupboards on the other side of the range.
Which means the blue back board you can see above will also have to come out, which means we'll now have to decide to we just replace it with the same or do we go for tiles? or something else ? all these extra decisions that now need to be made !

One of the new wall cupboards is up and the smaller one that will cover the circuit board, so needs a hole cut into the back, will go up once the cement drys that was needed to level the wall at the top. Then it will be a case of trying to remove the trim round the lower cupboards so new wood can be purchases for all the new doors ! But of course we'll need to strip off the back wood, sand down the walls, paint all of that before we can get to painting the doors!
But of course I'm already thinking about fabric for a new blind and place mats etc which will take sometime.

On the doll front , no dolls items have arrived this week , I am still managing to be good but slipping down the book and decorating front instead.

Today's been a very lazy day as Paul went to visit his 97 year old Dad while I stayed home with the dogs. I read the Sunday paper from cover to cover, enjoyed looking at some home style magazines, cruised the internet looking for fabric for the kitchen blind and dozed in front of an episode of Mid Summer Murders ! Bliss !

I do have a blog post ready and waiting to go on for the coming week, so I did have a little doll play.

The weather today's been lovely and warm once the sun dispatched the cool morning chill and so the doors have been open allowing the dogs free reign and the heating turned off. The spring plants are starting to flower , so I'll need to take a trip down the garden when I'm off Tuesday and take some photos and see how everything is doing.

So have a lovely week ahead, I'm off to read by new book on the perfect English farmhouse to be inspired and to drool of the beautiful rooms and furnishings.

Dee