# 187: And relax...

Home sweet home? 

We hope so :0)

# 60: Caaaarrrrpet

The day finally came... when the stair carpet was finally laid :-D

The kids thought we were mad to be so excited, but its been a very long time coming!

(The title for this entry is a long-standing joke between hubby and I from when we bought 'our' first carpet in the previous house.)

# 58: Window II

Its been a long time coming, but I have finally made a significant impression on the window in our front room. We are finally decorating the lounge and dining room - this being the dining room. The state of the sill was pretty appalling, the house is over 70 years old after all, but had been badly decorated by previous owners, all the woodwork covered in magnolia gloss before the development of non-drip, and loss-less brushes. And beneath all that lead-based paint, the original brown scumble glaze. 

I've added the Topaz Adjust Dark - Ghostly filter, which makes a basic record shot a bit more interesting, I especially like what it does to the ladders on the right!

Original shot, SOOC.

# 54: Window

A bathroom window, but not just any bathroom window, its in the house where I was born, where I grew up, where my mother still lives. The uPVC part is relatively new, and I can still remember the original obscure glass pattern as if it were yesterday. Mum's getting on, some day the house will be a new family's home.

# 52: Tulips

Tulips in a friend's kitchen. Toned treatment in Nik's Silver Efex Pro for a change.

Jodie and I had a trip out to a fabulous barn conversion, such a beautiful home. A warm welcome awaited us and we are looking forward to another visit maybe in the spring, perhaps to meet a new baby, and a couple of horses if they're there (I'll coo at the baby, Jodie will coo at the horses!)

 A nice warm spot in front of the aga.

# 1: Fruit Cake

The fruit cake is immaterial really, but I couldn't think of a better title. This isn't just a shot of some fruit cake, the knife is a special one. It's older than me and my Mum uses it every single day. We visited Mum today for a while, had some tea and fruit cake. One of my brothers joined us there with his wife.

Now that Jodie's hair is long enough to plait, I had told her the story of my Mum's plaits being kept upstairs in a drawer all wrapped up.

So I fetched them to show Jodie. My Mum used to wear her hair in two plaits wrapped round in the Scandinavian style. When my brother Roland was a baby her hair fell out in handfuls - it was normal, but being so very long, it was a pain, and her doctor advised cutting her hair short. So the hairdresser cut off her beautiful plaits, then styled her hair very short. And that was the last time Mum had her hair cut, in 1958. The plaits are in perfect condition, though the rubber bands have perished, it's beautifully soft and shiny.

My sister-in-law was wearing some beautiful shoes on her very petite feet...