a place of one's own..

... as much as I said I wouldn't I just couldn't help myself with this one... I have followed this lady's blog - Allie's in Stitches - for a number of years - I have always marveled at the work she produced so when I heard that she had had a book published I just couldn't wait to see it...Especially as it arrived in the shop without me having to order it - temptation overload!!!! I have only had time to glance at it briefly but from the little I have seen it looks like a good book to have on the shelf... 

What the???? You may well ask... This Ladies and Gentlemen... is my brand new table/desk...I saw this at Office Works and knew straight away that it would work... Well, actually it took two visits with a measure up at home to make sure that it was 'the one'... I decided against a conventional desk as I wanted it more 'table like' so I can use it in the middle of the room or if I choose have my sewing machine on one end and still have extra space to move around it without knocking my legs on drawers underneath. It is white and glossy and all mine... I have managed to get it into my little room and 'positioned' - if only you could see the chaos behind me as I took the photo... A chair will make it perfect but I finally have a space albeit a claustrophobic one - a room of one's own...Bliss!!!! What can I do first - probably sort out the mess you can't see!!!


Slowly the house is coming together and feeling more like home... 


I even have my eye on P's CD tower - it would make fabulous fat 1/4 storage - just the right shape -all those lovely colors against a square white surround... Nothing is safe or sacred here... :)

....last but not least I have finished block nine... I just have to  rejig block eight and  I have finished all the embroidery - now to put it all together into a quilt top...


Until later take care..


S xx