Dear Readers,
Wow where to start! I had all good intentions to be blogging at least once a week while we are away but I had forgotten how busy life is when you’re in a city with lots of family and friends!
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Christmas holiday 2022
Happy holidays dear readers! Whether you’re celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah or just enjoying the public holidays I hope that you’ve been having a wonderful time!
Continue reading “Christmas holiday 2022”Recent Crafts Recap Post
Dear Readers,
I have realised that it has been a little while since I have shared some finished projects with you so instead of doing separate posts dedicated t each one I though I’d do a little collection.
Continue reading “Recent Crafts Recap Post”Family Break 03
Part 3 of the family adventures.
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This is the second instalment of my recent break spending time with family.
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Dear Readers,
Sorry for my unannounced break, I have been doing social things back to back for the last 2 months and I just totally forgot to make a little announcement.
My parent’s have moved into the downstairs part of our house and will be staying there until they find their own place. If you missed it, they just immigrated to the UK from South Africa. And this past week my Mother-In-Law came to visit us from South Africa too so we have had a VERY full house! 🙂
Update on my Mother
Recently my mother found out that the pain in her ankle that she has been dealing with for 30 years (!!) is actually very serious and if she didn’t have an operation soon her ligament might be worn through and she would lose the ability to use it.
Continue reading “Update on my Mother”Facebook hiatus
Just a quick little post to keep you updated incase you follow me on Facebook.
The sad part for me is that I have some friends from Cape Town who I only have contact with through Facebook. I also have a local craft group which I can only contact through Facebook. And then there’s obviously my Elliementalist page with I use for business/advertising purposes.
But it is what it is. 
I don’t want to expend more energy on this.
Keep crafty!
Peace and love, Ellie
Jack Sprat could eat no fat..
This past week Husband and I have been repainting the hallway/staircase/landing.
The walls were a sort of magnolia pink white which had yellowed slightly. And the skirting and architraves were all very scuffed. (These were all like this when we bought the house)
Bathroom update 01
Dear Readers,
This week we started doing up our bathroom. This has proven to be a bit of a pain as it is our only bathroom! We started with the ceilings. The previous owner did not use proper bathroom paints and so even though we mostly keep the window open there was beginning to he mildew marks on the ceiling. This is also an issue because the ceiling is really low compared to some houses.
The previous owner also did not check the watts requirement for the sort of lights they installed so the paint bubbled on the mdf around the downlighters. So that needed extra sanding.
The ceiling had strips of MDF interspaced with plastic mirror strips but we decided to paint over those as well. So I sanded them too inorder to give a grip surface for the paint.
It took me the better part of the day to sand the ceiling and the architraves around the door. I had to keep taking breaks as the blood would run out of my hands from sanding above my head. I did have a sanding block though so that made it a little easier.
The painting took quite a while as the special bathroom paint required 6 hours between coats! That meant that it took us 3 days before the bathroom was fully functional again. The final coat also had to be left for 24 hours before fully dry!!
But we are much happier with the ceiling now and hopefully it will be more mildew resistant. In terms of the bathroom we still need to finish painting the door and the architraves but we were having visitors this weekend and we didn’t think having the only bathroom doorless was very hospitable 😂
On Friday My hands were soooo sore from sanding that I couldn’t knit 😢 but my hands are feeling better today (Sunday)
Hope that you all have been keeping well!
Peace and love Ellie Xoxo
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