Stitching show

Today I went to a stitching show in Harrogate with a friend (although a teeny bit of me wanted to go alone so I could spend more time just oogling and looking at individual things on various stalls). We learnt from last year and went towards the end of the day and it was much less busy, the last half an hour there were only a handful of people left and the stall holders actually had time to gossip!

I got aida, buttons, fabric, two patterns (one for a rabbit cushion and one for a needle case) a gorjuss cross stitch kit and this applique kit (though the photo does not do it justice). 

Some of the workmen were here today to finish off so I now have the joinery finished, a radiator and a plumbed in dish washer (thank goodness!!). However the electrician had a nasty shock for me. We have no upstairs lights because a junction box has gone... the problem is that we don't know exactly where it is so next week we are going to have to take up the carpet and flooring to find it *sighs*. Anyway tomorrow the guy is coming to finish off all the outside stuff and then I can get my house back again!

No more blogging for a while for me as I am off to Windsor on Sunday for my 30th :D Hampton Court Palace and the Harry Potter studios!!!

Back from the Far East

Back from our honeymoon!! It was a whirlwind that started with an upgrade to business class and ended in Shanghi. 

Business class was amazing!! Only I was a little too fat to lie in the chairs comfortably over night and my poorly knee rested between the foot rest and the chair.

No visit to China would have been complete without the obligatory panda viewing  

This is the hubby at the forbidden palace

These were at a street market we went to and a couple of girls we saw bought some and ate them as part of a dare... yuck!! It made me shiver

Hubby on the Great Wall this time. It was pretty amazing but there were too many steps for me and the heat was just relentless

The Terracotta Warriors were my ultimate thing that we saw during our visit. Unfortunately both of us were poorly for part of the visit which did spoil it a little and we spent the whole time running from attraction to attraction (not very relaxed). But we are away again in a week for my 30th and we have said that we will make sure that it is a lot more chilled out!

Since we got back we have finally managed to make it to the York Maize Maze. It was a great day out and the dog thoroughly enjoyed herself, we even let her pick which way to go in the maze (when it wasn't obvious that she was taking us completely the wrong way!)

This is evidence of the abuse I suffer at the hands of my husband, we were supposed to be doing the 'finger fortune maze'. But after he had painted his fingers and acted out the silly thing his fingers told him to do (act like superman, mine was a Tasmanian devil) he decided to start with the wifey beating. I really am hard done by!! :p

Planning and flying

Where to start!! Today we got planning permission through for our extension... so much for next door telling us we would need to pull it down! (Stupid idiot of a man... who is supposed to be a builder!) We didn't even have any modifications that we need to make :D The planning guy even commented on how it fit in so well with the house. So that is a big party for us when we get back from China!! I can also twin it with my 30th Birthday celebrations so it will be extra specially exciting and super. We are off out to Yo Sushi tonight to celebrate (so long as hubby is not too tired after working and then having his evening crazy classes)

The day after tomorrow we fly out to China for our honeymoon! I cannot wait (though I am not really looking forwards to the flight). We are there for 10 days and get to do the most amazing tour. But I will blog about that when I get back. I feel really in need of a holiday (ignoring the fact that we just had a weekend away in Stratford-upon-Avon), I have not been sleeping well as I have too much on my mind. I just need to get away from it all for a few days and have someone else look after me for a change!

I seem to be spending my time just running around trying to get ready for the holiday, even though my parents are house sitting. It is really just as well that they are here as the extension is still not quite finished *sighs* I just want a couple of men to come for a day and blitz everything. The head builder is back off his holidays on Monday so hopefully he will get the whip cracking!! Either that or my mother will!

The paper piercing is coming along steadily, I hope by September I will be able to start making it into a cushion. I am away for so much of August that I am just giving up the thought of getting anything done!

I will blog again on my return.