Something fishy going on

Mum and Dad gave us some prints of fish that used to be in my Dad's dental surgery toilets. I think fish in toilets is a feng-shui thing.

 But we're putting them in the hall/living room, in our evolving picture space (e.g.1, e.g.2), because it's not the 90s and we don't believe in feng-shui.

 This is one of them. They're like, anatomical.

The other one is under that mirror on the right. It's, like, some fish on a river bank, just been caught. (not for the squeamish). 

Curtain pole

So before Christmas, we were planning to put up a curtain pole for our new sitting room windows. But then this happened. So not much drilling was going to be happening. 

We'd even moved everything out of the way and everything.

But what's this? Thanks to Katie Lloyd and Simon Taylor (along with Dad G too) we were able to go and buy ourselves a brand new drill! Christmas wishes really can come true!

Woo hoo! Curtain pole! Let's just wait another several months and maybe I will have got round to making the curtains.

Riding my workmate.

The cupboard in Hannah's sewing room had a missing shelf. This may have broken/been thrown out in the early days of the House of Love. Crazy times. Shit happened. Can't remember. We threw a lot of stuff out.

I inherited a Black & Decker Workmate from my dad's friend Neville - He had two! - so I decided to get my saw on and cut her a new shelf of an afternoon.

 Correct technique.

Plank.

Re-tooling in the studio.

I'm holding a drill like a gun!

 Pee-yow!

Brute force.

So, eagle-eyed readers/viewers will have spotted the bent drill bit. This has happened before. I think we've got a bent drill. They sometimes break off completely. It's obviously nothing to do with my technique. You will also have noticed NO keyboard on the very top shelf-rack arm things.

So, add these to your Xmas present ideas for Jon and Hannah;

a.) Drill

2.) Keyboard

Snowflakes

Now the advent calendar has started we can begin decorating our house! We started with these lovely snowflakes we got at the Chapel End Arts and Crafts Christmas fair.

Sorry about the flurry of non-diy posts. We will get back to proper posts shortly, this is not a lifestyle blog!

Advent greetings

This is going to be our second Christmas in the House of Love. And on the first day of advent, after 20 minutes of frenzied searching, we cracked open our trusted Playmobil advent calendar.

Windows. End. Of. (for now)

So, we got a bit cold with that massive hole in our sitting room, so we asked the nice men to put some more windows in (luckily they were still hanging around).

After getting rid of the window held together with loo roll we weren't sure about the squirty cream in the gaps, but they're the experts.

Houseface! Now all we need to do is paint the pebble-dash and get a new door.

Look how amazing and light-filled our sitting room looks!

I'm going to have to make some new bloody skirtains!

Thank you so much to @PamHutch for recommending Ian Foster and Sons. Without her recommendation one Friday night at the Hornbeam cafe we would have procrastinated forever!

Sorry for the overkill of windows posts but quite frankly it's cost us so much money we needed to get blog value out of it.