Job Done well almost

So after 4 weeks of upheaval, and a mess that has yet been unprecedented, my tiny weenie cooking space is almost complete, Just need to put my spice rack up above the sink, a self above the cooker, and a couple of shelves on the back wall for my lovely light yellow and black dinner set. and one more shelf for my Russian tea set.

I'm reasonably happy with the result, but I'm still saving my pennies to have a real granite work surface, and to re-install my white butler sink.

I'm so glad I didn't let my Boyfriend talk me out of removing my re-claimed quarry tiles.

My most important creation

So this week my lovely 17 and 3 quarter old son is playing living on his own with his mates,

He'll be staying at his friends house for the next 10 days, without adult supervision, as his friends mother is away in Cuba.

One of the most important creations in my life is my son, I've dedicated every minute of his 17.3/4 years to him. So whilst I'm excited for him to have this free space, I'm nervous in that I hope what he does with this free space will be all in the positive and not in the negative.

Although I suspect a little drinking will be part of his free space,

However, this all means that after he's spent 10 days away from me, and living it large, when he returns I will undoubtedly be dealing with a more grown up version of what left the house this weekend.

So a little reminiscence kind of wafted over me this morning.

En-LIGHT-enment

As the days are getting so much longer, and warmer, it reminds me of my wonderful trips to Morocco. It's one of my favourite places that I've visited, for its natural beauty, the light, the heat, and the people. And check out that building, this is the hotel I stayed at, in the middle of the sahara desert. Could you really be anywhere more beautiful?

If you've never been to Morocco, you should definitely head that way soon.

I spent a few days camping out in the Sahara Desert, and I can say it was the happiest time of my life.

I thought I'd share some of these beautiful moroccan lights that can be purchased inexpensively from http://www.maroque.co.uk/catalog.aspx?p=00309 I have one of these lights in my hallway, it was the first thing I purchased for my home some 15 years ago. and I've never gotton bored of admiring it. Check out the great light fittings also at the bottom of their page, these make removing the lamp extremely easily. I couldn't manage without mine.

WATER - without it where would we be

Today i am going to be spending most of my time buoyant on water

This is one of my favourite places to be in the world, if not under the steaming hot sun, on a sandy beach, or sat in the middle of the sahara desert, it is to be surrounded by water.

I take a lot of my inspiration from water, the gentle flows, the ripples, the colour changes, the curves, and the natural shapes. so who knows what my mind will conjur up after a day surrounded by the wet stuff.

Just what I need after a very exhausting week.

I will be loving it.

COPYCAT

COPYCAT
That's what would be sung (well maybe no exactly sung, more repeated in a kind of harmonic mean and nasty way) in school playgrounds across the country. When a girl would come with the same pencil case, or the same socks, or the same headband. copy cat, copy cat

So obviously some people copy, and other people create. Those that copy will never feel the depths of despair like a creator /designer does when they see their designs blatantly copied, and publicly announced as theirs (-the copiers)

This has happened to me more than once, in different environments, from art fayres, to online selling.

I bring this up today, as I'm currently bringing my blood pressure back down, I'm stopping my heart from beating like a manic drum, and soothing my head, from the rush of blood that has been travelling through my body at 100miles an hour, for the good part of this afternoon.

I like to think of myself as a graceful person, so i will not be exposing the person responsible for my body reacting the way that it has this afternoon, and I will not be showing pictures, of the said designs that have been copied.

But please if you are a maker, always remember a designer is somebody who creates something honestly, your soul, your mind and every inch of you has gone into creating your piece. BUT if you are a maker, who snoops at peoples designs, and studies it, then goes off and makes it, and whilst creating it convinces themselves it's there's and it's new, and it's going to sell, then you my dear are a COPYCAT.

Could this be the answer to my dreams. ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I sleep for like 4- 6 hours a night, when I wake up the first things I think off, are, what might I have to knit, or what I 'd like to knit that day.

I wonder., if I slept on this, would I dream of knitting as well.

Phat knits have been created by http://baukeknottnerus.nl/#anch0

50 is the new 20

Wow tomorrow is my boyfriends 50th Birthday, Yeah I know how good does he look.

He'll probably kill me for posting him on the net, but hey, why not, he looks bloody luvly, and he's a role model to all those middle aged men who need a bit of grooming.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIMI,