For some unknown reason I have woken up this morning feeling not quite with it. I think maybe it's because I have a lot of stuff going on in the background of my life which needs attention and I am feeling ever so slightly bogged down. I'm trying (and failing) to finish painting my alcove shelves so I can make a start on clearing the humungous mess that has taken over our dining room. To say it is a big job is a huge understatement and I can feel myself wanting to run away from it, even though I know that it's childish and silly and I should just stop flapping and get on with it. In short, I am procrastinating. Big time.
Its Little Lady's birthday tomorrow and we are having a family tea party to celebrate. In my mind I am seeing pretty floral bunting strung across the table, which will be covered in a fresh white linen tablecloth and laden with cakes and little sandwiches and lovely party nibbles. But all this has to take place in the dining room which is worrying me somewhat. I don't have an awful lot of time to clear the decks.
So yes, I am doing the obvious thing and sitting up in my attic Blog-writing, as far away from the unfinished shelves and dining room fiasco as is possible. Not very good is it?
We eat a lot of fruit in our house. Bags of it every week, and I have a fruit bowl that is rather on the large side to accommodate it all. It was made and painted by ceramic artist Andrew Lloyd who lives and works in Dorset near where I grew up. I have several of his pieces, but this bowl is one of my absolute favourite things. I love the flamboyance of it, the mediterranean influence and the overly large scale. I bought it from him relatively cheaply many years ago as it is technically a "second" (it has a tiny chip on the foot of the bowl). I have lost count of the number of times I have moved house since owning this bowl, it has moved around with me and lived in various bedsits, flats and houses during my student, postgrad, courting and married life. It's currently residing in a particularly hard-to-get-at bit of the dining room in the above mentioned chaotic mess :: I took these photos a while ago in late winter when leafy clems were in season, before the shelving project began and the Stuff piled up in front of it.
I think it's time for me to STOP procrastinating, head down two flights of stairs and get on with some painting. Can't be skulking up here all afternoon when there is so much work to be done. Wahhhhhhh!!!
Oh, gosh...how lovely it was to read how someone was going through exactly the same thing I am going through now. pooh pooh to days where you are in a funk!
I am all the way back in a post in 2008 because my friend recommended your blog to me, and I really liked reading it so much, I wanted to go back to the beginning.
I was also really interested to see how your blog developed over the years. How you got to a point where you get over a 100 comments A DAY! wowzeers!
Since you have so many comments, I don't know if you have time to reply to my one....but I was wondering how do you think you got to a stage where there became the norm.
Do you think it is the crafting community?
Is it because you are an excellent commentor yourself?
Would love your insight ;)
PS Am itching to start a crocheted wave blanket, after visiting your blog :)
Posted by: Meeks | May 04, 2011 at 10:17 PM
I have a sense of deja vu looking in here...I have some Andy Lloyd ceramics in the same pattern...two cups and saucers I never use, and a little jug I sometimes do, and two large plates/platters I love. Also some black and cobalt blue which I love but rarely use....
Posted by: Diana | June 20, 2008 at 09:02 PM
I have a sense of deja vu looking in here...I have some Andy Lloyd ceramics in the same pattern...two cups and saucers I never use, and a little jug I sometimes do, and two large plates/platters I love. Also some black and cobalt blue which I love but rarely use....
Posted by: Diana | June 20, 2008 at 09:01 PM
wow! Those photos are absolutely gorgeous!
Posted by: Rebekah | April 29, 2008 at 10:16 PM
Oh but it's so easy to procrastinate, especially when it's so much more fun to blog than to do that sorting out! I'm sure you'll feel more like tackling those jobs another day, don't be too hard on yourself.
Posted by: Gill | April 28, 2008 at 08:59 PM