Weekending

Nesting, knitting and cooking. What  a wonderful weekend! Above is the scene on Saturday morning where I was pulling together inspiration for our place. No complete colour boards to share yet but still, there has been progress! Faced with lack of seating (one can only sit on lawn furniture for so long) I’m plunging headlong into having my grandmother’s sofa and chair recovered. I was going to wait until I had finished a complete design board, but I need seating! I’ve met several reupholsterers, poured over sofa designs and fabrics, and those books on the left are full of fabric samples. I am finally ready to give over this gold brocade beauty for a facelift:

The bottom picture definitely shows the shape and true potential of the set. Originally made in the early 60s, I noticed that this appears to be a very ‘in’ shape and it has a very solid frame. Grandma’s gold brocade is off to the reupholstery shop later this week and we hope to end our garden furniture dwelling days in a few weeks!

In other weekend news, Tea-man’s ribbed socks are coming along beautifully. I LOVE the Madelinetosh tosh sock yarn.

And I was all domestic and used our new dishware and made the lovely Delia’s Vegetarian Shepherd’s pie with goat’s cheese mash. Yummy! Instead of meat, it is filled with black beans, lentils, split peas and lots of veg.

This week was my ‘canadanniversary’ – it has been 1 year since I moved back to Canada from the UK. And this was the first weekend in over a year where Tea-man and I indulged in making house and just doing the lovely, simple things in life that make a house a home. Bliss. I couldn’t be happier.

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