I'm in love!

We went to London this weekend for our friends engagement party, and also to go to The Conran Shop - we wanted absolutely everything, but decided to treat ourselves to one of these..

(Partly because they had 15% off!)  I've wanted one for a while now, excited for it to come!  And its not Ikea, which is good, because most of the rest of our house is!

I also treated myself to some Herme macaroons - they are incredibly delicious (except the rose flavoured one) and very very pretty, but also expensive - I could only afford 7!

Is it spring yet?

Well, obviously not, the north has snow.  These are some pics from my inspiration folder to help with the gloomyness outside.

Source: ASKASIN

Source: Ciel Photography

Source: danske

Source: Homayoun !

I love my husband

for looking after me when I'm on nights, cos I know I'm no fun.
He makes me strong coffee and cooks and gets into bed with me for a cuddle when I get home at 10am and am cold.

(silly old photobooth pic - today I actually look like the living dead)

Today I watched...

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Top two were amazing, and I wish I could have been there live, especially for the Fashion for Relief show!  I first heard about the White Ribbon Alliance through Million Mums at Bestival and have supported them ever since, they do an amazing job!  Please sign up!  Bottom one.... having lived in Swansea for 4 years, I'm not sure about its portrayal of the city - yes it has its problems, but it is nowhere near as bad as the film makes out it is.  Really!  But everyone who has lived in Swansea knows of the bad press it gets.  Now watching "My big fat gypsy wedding" - pretty random collection of TV!

Finally, a day off!

The 13 hour shifts in the critical care unit are breaking me!  I'm really not sure how I'm going to cope with 6 months of them!  I'm enjoying the job but it's pretty intense and full on, and obviously very emotional.
So I need to make sure I make the most of my days off, instead of just waiting to go back to work.  Today I slept late (much needed!) and went rummaging in my favourite antiques shop, Langfords.  I got an old Singer sewing machine for a very good price - it needs quite a bit of cleaning up but I love it!

We just watched the Blur film.... well, hubby watched it and I read Heat and glanced up at it occasionally.  Some lovely footage of Glastonbury.

My evening will consist of:

xx!

I'm ready for summer

Here in Southsea, we have a beautiful few days but once again it is bitterly cold.  I drove along the seafront but it was too cold to get out and have a walk.  I'm over winter now and very ready for spring.  I want to be able to walk along the beach without having my ears frozen off, to have picnics on the common, to sit out in the garden for hours, to have barbecued salmon......  I guess I won't want to knit when its warm, but that will be okay - I'll crochet and sew instead.

Images from We Heart It

Bye bye winter, I'm ready for you to be over!

Wednesday

I started a new job today - on critical care.  I'll be there for 6 months which will be pretty intense.  Think it's one of those jobs where I will have to plan my time off well, so I actually have a life!  I do my first shift tomorrow and work straight through to Monday.  I'm hoping I'll make some friends in the unit - it was pretty hard to make friends in anaesthetics as we were all in different theatres with only a few people in each.  It was one of my new years resolutions to make more friends this year so this is my plan!

Yesterday I went to a sewing class at The Make Room - it was a beginners class and taught me how to use my sewing machine properly!  Some of the things I had been doing were a bit stupid!  We made a little pin cushion at the end of the class - my husband even thought it looked good, although he had to ask what it was!!!  Ellen, who runs the classes, has a beautiful craft room - lots of bright fabrics, jars of buttons of different colours, it was heaven!  I definitely will be doing more of her classes in the future!

Today I had dinner with Alexa of  Curlywiggles which was lovely.  I then spent the evening attempting to teach myself to crochet..... I failed.  Shall try again another day!

Ooh and I bought this jumper last week - love it!

Night!