a swap, a "ta daa" and a work in progress .....

..... I took part in the Summer Swap that Becki organised and on Wednesday my parcel from Buttonz  arrived:

you'll see that Otis is in the background, he likes a bloggy swap almost as much as me :-)

inside were lots of brown paper packages ..... which contained:

a window transfer ..... it's a camper van with "are we there yet" underneath .....

a beautiful heart (now hanging on the mirror in my downstairs toilet!) .....

a sundae glass and scoop .....

a packet of butterflies .....

some cupcake ribbon (the prefect reason to dig out the cupcake rubber stamps I haven't used yet!) .....

and a lovely "gone to the beach" sign which is now hanging in my craft room .....

how lucky am I?  thank you Jodi for a lovely, lovely swap :-)

On Tuesday I got a call from the framers to tell me that my cross stitch was (finally) ready, it's now hanging in my hall .... so here is the "ta daa":

 

And, finally, this week after what seems like months of waiting my living room and dining room floor were finally finished .... here is a quick shot of the living room just after it was finished:

now, just need to get everything back in place! :-)

Stealing a neat idea .....

..... and sharing an excellent giveaway!

I've just found (another) fab blog to follow - and saw this list (and thought I could steal the idea for a quick, mid week bloggy upate) so I here is my own version of it:

• listening to - Lily Allen singing "straight to hell"
• eating - nothing just now but looking forward to a lovely dinner cooked by Mr G
• drinking - sparkling mineral water
• wearing - jeans, dress and fluffy slipper boot things
• feeling - inspired .... been blog hopping again!
• weather - mild and sunny
• wanting - to finish crochet flowers to adorn my cushions (long story, involving the word "practical" in a description of my house ...  practical?  neat, yes and ordered, yes but practical?  it sounds so, well, practical. ...and who wants to live in a practical house?)

• needing - more hours in the day
• enjoying - time in my craft room :-)

And whilst I was on this lovely blog, I spied this very lovely  giveaway and I do love a nice giveaway!

and the winner is .....

.....  mystic moonshadows jewellery!  if you contact me either through here or MISI and let me know your address I shall get your Halloween goodies in the post to you!

Please let me know what you think of them! 

A big thanks to everyone who entered - I've got some other giveaways coming up soon so keep your eyes open :-)