I've Been Tagged

..by Sian (the monkey lol) at Lavender Hearts.

The rules: I have to answer 6 questions about myself. At the end of the post, I then tags 6 people and posts their names, then go to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they have been tagged and asking them to read my blog for the rules. Then, I must let the person who tagged me know when I've posted my answers.

1. What was I doing 10 years ago?

I was then starting out at high school i think. I would have been around 11. I don't remember much else to be honest lol.

2. 5 things on my to do list today?

- Put the washing away
- Wash up after lunch still
- Have a purely relaxing hot bubble bath listenning to Mariah whilst imaginning all the new things i'm going to do to the house.
- Start working on the plans for Madisyn's 3rd birthday next month.
- Pace the house depressively wishing for Sky Digital back. Because by that point i'll have nothing left to do other than watch tv. And we are now without Sky.

3. Snacks I enjoy?

Absolutely love buttered crackers. I'm addicted to them! And packets of frazzles. Yum!

4. Things I would do if I were a millionaire?

- Hire an assistant or two to help me around the carboot sales to carry all my bargains. (Yes i would still carboot shop because i LOVE it.)
- Re-subscribe to Sky.
- Donate a large amount of money to Addenbrokes' children's intensive care unit and the air ambulance (because they saved my Daughter's life.
- Donate to maternity units and fund more midwives to train.
- Spend lot's of money on living life like a posh, spoilt cow in a new house on the beach drinking champers for breakfast and eating horrible rich food for my many lunch dates with important people.

5. Places I lived?

I spent my whole life living in my Mum's childhood home, in King's Lynn, Norfolk. We both lived with my Nan ever since i was born, moving out occasionally to rent only to come home again to my Nan. Sadly she passed away and Mum bought the house. We carried on living there until i moved out with my husband, but we came back again because we couldn't afford it then. Now we have bought a house and i've been here for almost a week lol. I have lived in the same part of town all of those times though.

Right, now I have to tag 6 other people but i can only find 3 that don't seem to have been tagged recently lol.

Allsorts
Creating Something out of Chaos
Dancing on a Blade of Grass

2 makeover pictures!!

I feel quite impressed with myself. I haven't even been moved into my house and i've had time to do a makeover lol. This Bureau was £20 from the Ad Trader newpaper. I thought i saw potential and was really excited about it. Then sadly, i started painting it white and decided to sand down the drawers for a different effect and it went terribly wrong.

But my Mum came to the rescue with the suggestion of doing it the same as my coffee table and chest of drawers (which can be seen in the next set of photos) in the wood glade green paint and the laura ashley wallpaper. I like it much better now, thankfully because it nearly went in the skip.

I loved this chest of drawers. I got it from a second hand shop for just £15.

I really don't understand why whenever i upload photos to blogger, the size is always so small even though i have selected the large image box. If anybody has any idea how to stop it from being resized so small, please let me know.

Anyway, here i am *WAVES!!* I'm back online with my shiny new mobile broadband. And it's great not having to pay out for a phone line just so i can browse the web. It's cheaper and wireless too!!
We finally moved in 3 days ago, but still had no carpets until late the day after. But after a long and stressful week, we are all settled into our new home. And i've even found time to take photos and upload tem here too heh!!

Please click the photos to see bigger photos :-)

This is the living room slash dinning room. I've used Erin and Kimino wallpaper from Laura Ashley on opposite sides. My bargain rolls of £1.50 each out of the last stock bin in store. I'll be eventually getting a new table and chairs for the dinning end.

These are the bedrooms. I haven't uploaded a great photo of ours, but you can see the Oriental wallpaper which was another Laura Ashley bargain.

And finally just 3 photos of the toilet (because i used Laura Ashley wallpaper again lol), the kitchen (which is going to stay modern) and the hallway, which again has Laura Ashley wallpaper.

A quick hello!

This is just a short update inbetween moving. I'm so tired lol.

I'm sorry i have no exciting pictures to update with, but i want to wait until everything in the house is in place before i do hehe. I have load's of new furniture to show you too.

Today the kid's carpets were put in, and the living room and downstairs toilet are both wallpapered beautifully. Curtains are all up, kicthen is ready to be used and so is the bathroom. It's just the rest of the carpets and furniture left to do now.

I'm so excited that everything is coming together so amazingly. I really hope you like what i have done with the decorating.

Will update again soon.

Thank you for all your good lucks and best wishes.

*Hugs*

Lea x

So Excited!!!!

Tomorrow we pick up our keys for the house!! I can't believe after almost 4 months we are finally completing. I thought it would be nice to post some pictures of the house up because i've done nothing but go on about it, and also, you can see it as a blank canvas before i shabby-chic it all up. The house is one of the first Millenium Villages that are being made all over the country. It's an all eco-friendly community. The patio leads out onto a huge community garden, which will be fab for the children because there's a park, and only residents and their guests have access to it. I haven't put up pictures of the kid's bedrooms because they are pretty much the same as our without the balcony. We also have a downstairs toilet, which i'm actually really excited about lol.

I'm so excited today though and don't know what to do with myself. I've brought down most of our packed things, and now it's just waiting for tomorrow to come. I'm going to the carpet shops tonight to actually decide for definate what carpets we want. We are on such a tight budget though, so it won't be anything wonderful unfortunately lol.

Anyway, here are the pictures. I hope you like it.

I am really sorry about the awful quality of this image. For some reason Blogger would upload it far to tiny, and using Photobucket, it enlarged it slightly and made the pixels all fuzzy. Nevermind, you get the idea of how it looks lol.

Inspiration

I found these pictures on my favourite magazine, Ideal Home's website. They are so beautiful and the exact look i'm hoping for with the new house. Of course, mine won't be no where near as beautiful, especially my dining area lol, but it's great inspiration. The colours are so light and beautiful.

One make-over...

Here's a new makeover... And a boring one too. I also put less effort into this than i usually would into a makeover. But i'm glad because it's left it with a shabby look. The wood is still showing through in the ridges and on the corners, but only very slightly, giving it an instantly worn look.

This was £3 at the carboot sale... It's going to look lovely as a plant holder in my hallway... when i move in hehe..

Here's just a few pictures from Sebastian's party. Unfortunately, Ash was rubbish at getting pictures of all the children playing... But the one's we got of Seb and Madisyn are so cute, i don't even care lol.