Tomorrow...

...with love!
Tomorrow we at last have an electrician coming to get the work done. A new consumer unit...or the old fashioned name of a fuse box, as I know it as, and lights to glow...
The "new" kitchen is now cleared. All the old fixtures have been taken out...the old plastic ill fitting double glazing is now sitting outside in the rain. We also had to dig up a cement doorstep just to get our french doors open, as they'd been screwed shut, and then those screws covered by cement and steel... years of wallpaper is in the throes of coming off the walls...
....then, the AGA is being built on Thursday...so Friday I can...bake...bake...bake!! You did want cupcakes, now didn't you!

Have you been watching the Winter Olympics? I have...well, some of it and had a great time, even with our one gold, a brilliant win in the ladies skeleton for Amy Williams...and tonight is the final medal...ice hockey, and with both Canadian and American friends...who do I cheer for?!

Just one...

...little socket is all we need, but now, if you want one in a kitchen you have to have an electrician who has his part P2...which is fair enough. Then, when you ask someone to come and give you a price for the work, and he goes white at the sight of your fuse box...starts trembling, then you know you're in trouble. To get all technical, it seems our RDC..breaker is one they discovered fifteen years after they were fitted, that they don't actually break....or trip. So now, we need to have that changed before we can have our one little socket fitted...
But...it's all for a good cause...I keep telling myself....it is!

The wait and weight of snow...we lost our telephone connection over the weekend, so with BT summoned, a "little man that does", arrived this morning. After testing what we'd tested, he found the fault was fifteen metres from the house and not with our apparatus. So pulling the ladder from his van, putting his warm clothing on, he shimmied up the telegraph pole, telling me that the whole connection needed to be rebuilt. There he stood, strapped to the pole...and the snow had waited for him...blowing round his ears until he'd finished and came back to the warm to test again, and there...a tone, and a crackleless one at that. It was probably the weight of snow before Christmas which started the issue, the crackles. But, much to my Mum's relief I'm back. She loves worrying about us all...she's a wonderful gem.

A little bit...

...of silver.

I decided yesterday to mix my lamp-work style necklaces with my chain designs, and these are the result...


Above is a necklace of my lamp-work beads of a mingled green and amber glass, with mid amber and sterling silver spacers, with a large agate pendant I found a couple of years ago and had never got to use...


This one is made from cobalt blue lamp-work beads with a drop of white and cobalt, finished with silver beads...

I must admit, I'm more than a little pleased with them...

You have...

...to love the colours...

Seashell Pink

Shadow Grove

Pale Blue

Dark Ivory

and Mint...

It's been good getting back into the swing of things, after so long of just jogging along. I've missed making these little pearls of colour.

A bright and beautiful day today...some new beadies on the way, but to start...the pale blue is a beautiful German glass, which is lovely to work with....swirled over purest white.

Such a pretty lilac ribbon runs through these crystal clear beads.

A focal swirled with fine silver, you can see melted into the glass.

All for sale in my Etsy shop...