Coming out of hibernation.

Hurrah - the clocks have changed and summer time is officially here.  It does feel as though I can come out of this kind of hibernation I've been in.  It's been a very slow winter most of which we seem to have had little or no web connection.  Couple that with the fact that we had to batten down the hatches for most of January to avoid big snow and rain, rain, rain and there really hasn't been a whole lot of blogging going on.  However, today the sun is shining, as it has for the last couple of days and so we ventured out to one of our favourite antique shops to have a browse and I came home with a new acquisition!

Three vintage storage tins for the kitchen.

I think they're fabulous and look great on the shelf next to the cooker looking after my stock cubes.

In the bedroom...

Our bedroom has been a work in progress ever since we moved in.  It's slowly coming out of the brown and getting brighter and whiter.  I hung my first ever quilt to hide one of the walls, a bare stone wall that hadn't been finished.  Looking closely at it I can see a mass of mistakes but I still love it because it was my first attempt at a patchwork quilt (why would you start on something small?!).  It did a great job and helped brighten the wall.

 It also inspired me to make some cushions for the bed.  

Since then we've put a finish on the wall which covers the stonework but lets the shape of it show through.  It now needs several coats of limewash which is the next job.  That and plaster boarding the ceiling, blocking in the chimney "hump", sorting the floor...