Home Sweet Home

I haven't done a "Home Sweet Home" post for ages, sorry about that. Sometimes it is hard to see the special things in your own home.  Even today my "thing" I want to share is not really a household item that I treasure, but a very useful addition to my sewing room.

Meet Esmeralda:

I have recently taken up sewing again ( I used to make a lot of my own clothes, including my  own wedding dress)  So a few weeks ago I decided to purchase a dress form as I thought it would be a lot easier to do my alterations and new projects.  As is normal in our house I gave her a name (even spiders get named before we throw them out) and she is from here on known as Esmeralda.  Hopefully she will be my helper for many years to come.  But for now she is wearing a prototype wedding dress which I can't show you yet for obvious reasons.  I hope to get some sewing done tomorrow but as I have to dentist patients and a poorly hubby to look after that may be just wishful thinking.  You'll find out tomorrow as will I

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It has been a while since I have done a Home sweet home post but today I realised I had not shared my Flipper in the bathroom with you.  Flipper is  quite special to me.  I have always been creative and have been busy with many crafts and mastered quite a few (but still not crochet!  What is SO HARD about that?) but I had never ever painted and very rarely worked in colour. However one day after I had painted my loo I wanted to do someting special to it.  I had come to the wall colour accidentally as I had mixed a bit of midnight blue paint with white to get light blue.... OK that turned out to be a very deep turquoise.  Not a problem as I love that colour but for such a little room there was rather a lot of it.  I left it to dry and wet to iron some duvet covers and one of them had this beautiful dolphin on it.  Yes, I had a lightbulb moment then!  I sketched the outline on the wall and started with some paints to make it real.  It was a wonderful project and I realised that painting wasn't so different from drawing.  So Flipper was my first painting and it has led to many more enjoyable hours painting although not quite on this scale.

Home Sweet Home- There's nobody home but us chickens.

Today not inside but in my back yard.  It is rather overgrown and messy as we are still trying to get it fenced and made safe for the chickens and geese.  But they don't care.

 The cockerel is called Button and he was our only chick that we have had hatch.  He's taken over from his dad Chirpy who died about 6 months ago.

These two lavender ladies are called Cinders and Charcoal  and they are perched on top of the gate to get to the weeds that make a tasty snack for them.  It is hilarious to see them squabble to get near to the end of the gate.

The geese (Sid and Gussie) like to patrol the area an keep the chickens in check.  The chickens depart swiftly  but they do return as soon as they have passed!

Home sweet Home is an idea of Barbaramama, you can find a list with all participants on her blog!

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Apart from being a busy, home educating mum, and "pretend farmer" with lots of animals to look after I like to be creative  making jewellery and other pretty things for  "Astrid's Garden"  and  "Astrid's Jewel Garden" As well as that,  I also enjoy doing some painting from time to time.  To be quite honest, I LOVE painting and I really don't do it so much  as I get very grumpy if I have to stop to deal with everyday stuff.  These are three paintings that are in my living room at the moment. The two top ones are hung up but the bottom one normally just sits on a shelf as it is quite small (I hung it op for the photo as my shelf is rather cluttered)

  These paintings were done about four years ago. The top one is my youngest daughter in pensive mode and the other two are of  my youngest boy when he was a baby. I have painted more recently but they have been miniature ones called ACEO.  But more about those another time.

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Would you like a coffee?  I can offer a cup in style now. 

 Look what I found last Saturday at the local  market.

Six tiny little espresso cups!  

They have a very unusual finish that almost looks like leopard skin but the cups all have different colours. 

  I really look forward to having this coffee!

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Today I want to show my latest treasure.  I was out for the day with my husband last month and we were wandering through a craft market when I spotted this:

  It was just too tempting to leave.

Just look how lovely it looks.

I checked out the serial number and found out that it is a machine from 1948.

I haven't tried sewing with it yet, but it sounds beautiful when you turn the handle so there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it either. I am just so pleased with it.  Who knows, maybe I will be able to make some of my clothes or bags on it.  Will keep you posted.

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It has been a hectic few weeks for me and I really haven't  had time to blog.  I had planned to do a Home sweet Home about an old moneybox but that wil have to wait.  I will share a bit of my home though but as it turned out is was a rather wet home.
Saturday morning I finished my coffee and went to the kitchen to tidy up when my son came in asking me who was having a shower upstairs.  I told him no-one was. He said that there must be, as  he could hear water running.  We went together to the living room and had a shock as there was water dripping from the ceiling!
I dashed upstairs and ran into my bedroom to find a good inch of water covering the floor in my bedroom and en-suite bathroom.  I have to say I rather panicked.  My mind went blank about where the stopcock was so I ended up yelling for my son as I thought he would know.  He stumbled down the stairs (he is not very well and finds it hard to move first thing) I was correct in in him knowing where to find it and he shut the waterflow off immediately. That however left me with a soaking bed and bathroom.  My husband had arrived home in the middle of this (he'd been out getting a paper) and brought a stack of buckets he'd just bought.

We spend the next few hours dipping towels in the water and wringing them out into buckets.  It is a back breaking job I tell you.

The cats thought we were being weird, two of them actually wandered in to see what we were doing in spite of the wet  floor, but I removed  them swiftly when they wanted to go on my bed with sopping wet paws.
In all the panic upstairs I had forgotten about the dripping downstairs but the kids had been very good and parked pots and pans all around to catch the drips.

Fortunately there seems to be very little damage and most things have dried out very well. 
Well it is not the Home sweet Home post I thought I was going to do but there you are, I shared a bit of my home with you.  Hopefully next week I can share a pretty thing with you.