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I'm Home! I'm Here! Hello!! I missed you!!! Goodness I am exclaiming a lot today !!!! because I am excited to be back...need to calm down, deep breaths ahhhhhhhhh thats better.
So how are you all? Had a good break? Glad to be back to normal? Good-oh, same here. Had a FANtAsTic Easter holiday, soooo wonderful, but also very good to be home and finding my rhythm again. Kiddiwinks went back to school  yesterday and J was back to work and for a weeny while I was quite lost on my own. I wandered from room to room, up and down stairs, out into the sunshine and back in again and did not know what on earth to do with myself. I had no voice for blogging, did not even manage to climb the stairs to the Attic, I was all out of kilter. In the end I busied myself with straightening out the house a little, goodness knows it was in dire need. I scrubbed and dusted and polished, tidied and sorted and carried, gathered and loaded and unloaded and pegged and folded, baked and cooked and flopped. Pheww.

Inwardly I am still at sea actually. Always takes me a while to come back to land after I've had a week by the coast. I look out my attic window at the beautiful hills and long for waves. Oh how I LOVed being by the sea last week! It was terrific for my soul, left me feeling energised, refreshed, happy. But I miss it already. I miss the sights and sounds and smells of coastal life.

The seagulls that reside in Bridport are extremely noisy, and as a visitor I always love that fact, although residents complain heartily about them. But to me, one of the pleasures of being on holiday is waking up to the sound of them wheeling overhead, squawking their morning wake up call.
I couldn't resist buying this little seagull ornament to bring home. He only cost a few pounds from a little bucket-and-spade type shop next to the beach.

He is sitting upon my jar of sea glass on my bathroom windowsill, reminding me of sunny, happy, beach-bound days.

As always after a holiday, it's been a joy to finally upload my (141) photos onto the computer and re-live the week through the images. Glorious. Lots of sea stuff. Harbours, beaches, seagulls, pebbles, cliff tops. Mmm-mmm.
I would love to share them with you, if you'd care to indulge me? Need to think on how to organise them to best effect, how to avoid sending you off in a fug of yawning, holiday-snap boredom.

So until then, can I just say many huge thanks for all your good wishes for my break away, I carried your words with me and enjoyed myself enormously.

Thank you, consider yourself hugged in appreciation.

xx

ps almost forgot...the image above of the bare plastered bathroom walls just reminded me...a belated huge thanks too for the response to the Bathroom Cabinet Colour Question...boy, you really excelled yourselves there my friends.
I read every single one of your comments with a piece of paper and pen to hand, and tallied all the replies. Yes, I truly did. There were seventeen different colours/effects suggested in total, with the most popular suggestion being to paint the cupboard the same sky blue as the shelf (18 votes). Red (9 votes) and pink (9 votes) were also popular suggestions, as well as the idea to choose one of the colours from the striped/pompommed bathmat (7 votes). As it happens, the sky blue colour very nearly almost matches one of the colours from the bathmat too, so there you go. A fine result, and I thank you for your participation. I shall get jiggy with sky-blue paint as soon as I am able. 

xx

Comments

[Estelle]

Welcome back!!! I hope that you had a great holiday :)
Estelle x

[Tatiana]

Hi, Lucy! Welcome back! Missed your blog so much, looking forward for your photos!

[alisonb2]

I'm pleased you have had a great week and feel really refreshed. It is good to recharge the batteries. Keep sharing and I'll see it all when I come back from recharging mine!!

[dette]

I found your blog a few days ago and I love your crochet work. The coulurs are fabulous. You mentioned going up to the atic is your studio in the attic? I think the sea glass is very pretty.

[Samantha Terry]

Hi Lucy. Welcome Home and hope you had a fantastic break. Don't know if you remember me, but I posted you around the end of March to say I'd been told about your blog by a good friend of mine, and was back-tracking over all the old-stuff so I could catch up. You told me not to "burn out". Well, I didn't & I'm here and up-to-date. WOW! It was enjoyable to get to know you through your blog. I think I've found a kindred spirit. So many things you have written about strike a chord. I have 2 Little Men aged 6 & almost 3 and they keep me very busy. Like you I'm a stay-at-home Mum with a creative, crafty side. My main thing used to be knitting, then it was card making, back to knitting and now crocheting. You are an inspiration. Thank you. I'm a bit of the reverse of you as I used to live in a land-locked county, but now live a lot closer to the coast. I've moved around most of my life (dad in Army), but s'pose Nottingham is my original home and you can't get more land-locked than that. I now live in the Garden of England - Kent - and I can get to the coast within 20/30 mins - aren't you jealous? I also feel an affinity with the sea and love the sound of the waves crashing on the beach. Like you I also have a pair of walking shoes (Columbia) which I live in from Sept/October until the spring, then it's into my Birkenstocks for the remainder of the year (weather permitting). Today in my bit of Kent it is a lovely, warm, sunny day and the second load of washing is on the line. Anyway, enough gassing for now - just enough time for another brew before the school run. Hope this finds you well and look forward to hearing what's happening "up north" on your blog. Take care. Love Sam x

[sarah]

Hi Lucy
Just wanted to say how lovely and inspirational your blog (ugly word for such an unugly thing!) is. Your words and pictures have inspired me to learn to crochet - can you recommend any basic books? Look forward to your next installment of colourful, wonderfulness.
x

[Herta]

Welcome back Lucy, so uplifting to read your posts; loving the orange tulips against the pale blue of your little bottles and the simple sea glass is just lovely. As per other comments looking forward to your seaside photos and posts!.
A big 'welcome back' hug to you Lucy!

p.s. I'm working through my own summer garden granny squares (using your tutorial) although in the Southern hemisphere we are heading into winter!

[Marian]

I love the seagulls too. We live a couple of blocks back from the sea and the noise doesn't bother me, but then I have five cockatiels inside that make so much noise I often step into the pantry to make a call.

[tiennee]

hello lucy, nice to hear that familiar excited voice again. :) looking forward to see those beautiful holiday pictures. Its my turn tmrw for a short vacation with hubby. I'm excited and looking forward to get started a new crochet project on this vacation. Hmm...myabe the ripples? :) I've had great fun crocheting a hat last week. Posted a pict on my blog, feel free to have a look.

[jeane]

so happy to have u back.

[Therese]

It's nice your back. I missed you blog. I love how colorful it is. Thanks for sharing.
Therese

[Sarah]

Oh Lucy is really is good to hear from you again! You have been missed over here in New Zealand. How wonderful to miss someone we haven't even met. You brighten up each morning for me and give so much inspiration to all of us. I too have a blog now, many thanks to you! What fun it is to share with the world what I have been up to. Keep crocheting and crafting, we love it! Thanks.

[Lori Faeber]

i am so glad you are back. I just adore your blog and love to read it often. I am glad you had such an awesome vacation. Welcome back.

[Sumea]

Hello Lucy
Welcome back
I've missed you lots
Can't wait to hear more about your holiday
xxx
Sumea

[Judith]

Dear Lucy. Welcome home. I always love spending time at the beach and when I do i wonder why I don't get their more often - but I think life just gets in the way. I do like coming home again and settling into my little house. Looking forward to meeting with you on your blog again soon.

[Teakai]

Welcome home, Lucy.
*sigh* I'm sure I was meant to live on the coast, but somehow I ended up here in Australia's oldest inland settlement, what the...?!?!?

[Emma]

Glad you're back ... missed your updates sooo much!
I found another crochet blog whilst you were away ... reminded me of the Attic ... check this out:: http://crochetroo.blogspot.com/
Can see you making some of the items on the site ... maybe the star fish for your bathroom?
Emma x

[Rachel Jankovic]

Hi Lucy-
Although this is my first time to comment here, I have enjoyed following your blog (which I found through ravelry). I loved your post on your yarn, because the same day you put up those pictures I got a big stash of Debbie Bliss (50% off too!) in the mail. Anyways, while you were gone I used your ripple pattern and made a blanket out of it! Thanks for the inspiration!
p.s. my name should link to a picture of the blanket!

[Sal]

Glad you're back Lucy, I missed you! My granny squares are increasing (slowly!!) and it's my blogiversary today - 1st year! There's a giveaway so pop in if you have a mo, you'd be very welcome! Welcome back! Love Salx

[Jane]

Hiya, missed you while you were away, glad you had a good time! Look forward to your photos. I CAN NOW CROCHET RIPPLES! Really chuffed, thanks for your pattern. Making a rainbow coloured blanket. Got up early today, sat in the garden with a cuppa and did a bit of hooking. Perfect start to the day.
Love, sunshine and rainbows
jane x

[lulu]

Welcome back Lucy...So happy to hear that you had a lovely holiday with your family..
Cant wait to see the pictures..

[Alice C]

Welcome home Lucy...I have missed your chatter...hurry up with those photos - i could do with some sea air.

[Tracey]

Glad you are back. It made me sad to not have any inspirational posts about crocheting!

[Bee]

Hi
Just to let you know that I found your blog today, and I love your crochet work. The colour and patterns are really inspiring!
Bee

[Linda]

Great to have you back, Lucy! A fresh post from you was the best part of my morning. Looking forward to seeing your seaside photos.