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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

[Margaret]

Welcome back! I look forward to my daily dose of colour again. Loved the seagull too. I have a similar ornament in my bathroom and he reminds of the Scottish beach. My granny squares are growing, so thanks again.

[jackie]

Hi . I stumble upon your blog while you were away and I enjoyed reading a fes posts. I live in a Village between Chorley and Blackburn so we are almost neighbours.

[Moonie]

Yay!!!!! Thank goodness you're back. My sweetheart thanks you as he says I've been downright crabby since you've been gone. He's right, you know. Without my Lucy-ness, there is crabby-ness. :D I must say that my fingers have been busy though. I decided to do a mountain of little flowers and ended up making a pattern of my own for little 6 petal flowers in cotton. I would be happy to share. Since I had all those flowers, I needed something to put them on, so I made a couple summer hats and one is oh so adorable I'll have to share that too. You can see both creations on my poor neglected blog, as I'd rather read about your life than talk about my dull existence. ;p I'll put pics up today on suzimoon.blogspot.com . Thanks you Lucy for once again inspiring me

[Judy B]

Lovely sea glass. I've been enjoying the colors in past posts. Thanks.

[Andrea]

Hola, Lucy, qué suerte que hayas vuelto!. Te extrañamos. Me alegra que lo hayas pasado bien en el mar. Un beso enorme

[nat]

Glad to have you back.. Sounds as though you had a great holiday! I was missing your daily blogs...
Hope all is well...
Cheers

[july]

Hooray!! your back,I've sooooooooo missed you and all your colourfulness!I really need this distraction at the minute as my baby girl nearly 18 as left home to work abroad and feeling a bit down. So i hope your colourful posts will cheer me up. July x.

[Wendy]

OOOOooo welcome home Lucy, gosh how I've missed you and your wonderful colourful blogginess - life has been soooooooo dull since you went away. Had to take a wee peak everyday just to keep myself going for a WHoLe week!!!
Hope youre well rested and raring to get back in to blogland?!
Love and Hugs
Wend xxx

[Wendy Wager]

Hi Lucy, it's good to have you back. My sister directed me to your blog just as you went away for Easter and it's the best sisterly thing she has ever done for me - and she is a pretty good sister at other times. I was a prolific knitter, but crochet-avoider before discovering your site and now I CAN crochet, thanks to you and your inspiration and enthusiasm, not to mention your scrumptious gorgeousness.

[valerie]

glad you had a good time Lucy god to have you back i've missed visiting you lovley colour ful world. would love to see your photos then i can dream abouth being there

Val

[Megan]

Sooo glad you're back! I read lots of blogs but this is my absolute favorite. Can't wait to see the pictures. I'm sure they're gorgeous! Blog withdrawal? Yes, I was definitely experiencing that.

[marmaladerose]

Good to have you back. Pop your sea legs back in the wardrobe and get out your crochet fingers! lol!

Love Fi x

[vanessa]

I've missed you Lucy! Kept on checking your blog to see if you'd returned! How does it feel to be a fixture in my day?!
It's lovely to have you back, chirpy and chatty as ever.
I'm so pleased you had a wonderful time........... I love the sea gulls too, I even like their noise! Good thing, as they're resident on the roof opposite our house, and about to add to their numbers by the looks of things (lots of attentiveness going on, and nest building).
Love Vanessa xxx

[Vicki]

Yes! I'm glad you're back...seems so long since the last post, but knew you'd have an enjoyable/relaxing/peaceful time!
Btw, would you take a few minutes and check my blog? There are pics of my progress on the little Garden Flower blankie that I'm doing...I love it! I used the join-as-you-go method of course!
Can't wait to see your pics, will be waiting...me, I'm off to get camera batteries...I have more progress to upload!

[Colette]

Welcome back (seem odd saying that from the place you have left!!) Am a local and enjoy waking up to the sea gulls too. Just the pulling apart of rubbish bags I wish they wouldn't do!!

[Judith]

Pleased that you all had a great break, but pleased that you are back too. I have really missed reading your blog and I can't wait to see the pic's

[Zoe]

Hi - Glad you had such a great Easter break. Started on the Ripple and am so enjoying it but NOT finished the bag yet!!!! Just one strap and a few leaves to do! That's typical of me but the Ripple was calling to me. LOL. Looking forward to seeing your holiday photos.

[Fruitful Fusion]

So good to have you back Lucy. I'm so glad I can log on to google reader and see that you have new blog posts! Umm Hibaat

[Lee]

Hooray you're back! I have finished my bag, made of stashed Manos in very Attic24 colors and love it. Thanks for the pattern and I would very much like some beach photos.

[pj]

Glad you had a lovely holiday - looking forward to seeing the photos. I love taking photos and my children laugh at me because I take so many - I can take 100+ snaps in a day! I too love being beside the sea - I'm such a beachcomber! Shells, glass, wood, rocks ... poor OH usually ends up carrying it all back for me! Best wishes, Pj x

[The Antidote]

Good to hear from you again. Love the sea glass and look forward to seeing that cupboard x

[Heidi]

Yay you have returned! I feel much better now after having a read, i was getting a bit growly...ahhhh...thoughts of waves and seagulls calling...

[Marie]

Welcome back Lucy. I've missed my daily dose of Attic colour! Glad you had a nice time beside the sea.

xMx

[Linda O]

Hi Lucy
Great to have you back, so glad you enjoyed your break, looking forward to seeing your photos. Missed the daily rainbow!!!
We live about 2 miles from the sea, and the seagulls are like common garden birds here!!! luckily our dog enjoys chasing them from the garden!!
Finally managed to master the granny squares!!!, although got carried away
on the first one and ended up with 10 spokes!!!!!and wondered why the next round wouldn't work!!, what am I like!!!!
Linda xxx

[Rachel]

Hello Lucy. Welcome back! I'm glad to hear you enjoyed your holidays. I love being by the sea, too, and I wouldn't mind hearing one of those pesky seagulls right now.
Can't wait to see your bathroom all done. I love the little bird ornament ~ he looks great with the sea glass. Good memories for you!