Such a lot has been happening over the last couple of weeks that the blog has taken a back seat! Not good.
First we’ve had the fig tree dug up – a sad, sad day. It had grown very big, was too close to the house and in the way of the new door proposed for the kitchen so it had to go. Such a shame as it was loaded with fruit.
The same day we had the Eucalyptus tree lopped and the Olive tree trimmed. All are growing so well in our little suntrap patch!
Next we started to turn out of the kitchen ready for the refit in September. We still have quite some way to go; compressing all we want to keep into our already overcrowded dining room cum office cum studio will be no mean feat.
Now today the guys are here mending the sash window in my bedroom. Thank goodness it’s warm as not only has there been NO window actually in place but the front door has been wide open too. And they have to come back tomorrow to finish the job. It has been quite a big one, with repairs to the frame, a new panel of glass and now rehanging and weighting – oh and of course these jobs aren’t cheap.
In between this we’ve been busy making jewellery and adding it to our ETSY shop first, a little tweeting, a newsletter and keeping our Facebook page alive.
And also building ETSY treasuries and being featured in one (Summer Fever). These really are fun and I find building them very therapeutic. I made a conscious decision with the two I’ve built this week to take a different stand than usual. So in the first one ‘More than a doodle’ I purposely included no jewellery, but concentrated on drawings, prints and photographs.
In the second one built this morning, I thought about things I like and that make me smile and produced ‘Birds of a Feather’. Birds and things to do with birds feature in this one. I just had some fun with it.
Hope you like them both. If you want to keep up with our mad and serious creative moments, please follow us here, on Facebook and on Twitter @armcandii.
