Flying visit
Phew! What a mad dash last weekend was... I drove to my mother's house on Friday for the evening (and stayed overnight), so that I could see my little brother and his family. They were visiting my mum for three days on their way to holiday in the sunshine. It's been about 18 months since I last saw my brother (at the memorial service for my father) and I'm unlikely to see him again for a while as he lives in America with his wife and children. It was lovely to see them all again and his children, whom I haven't seen for 6 years, have grown into beautiful, bright and happy people.
Saturday lunchtime I headed back home again via the large garden centre in Hereford. Here I spent a pleasant hour selecting dozens of annuals to plant into a 3 tier jardiniere in our front garden. For my birthday early this year, I asked for gardening tokens, so this lovely shopping spree was actually my birthday present from mum and my sister. Once the plants are all in situ I will take some pictures.
Since I got back from my jolly, Dave and I have been working together again on the new look website... I hate that it takes so long from 'can we make it do this or that?' to the finished product, but continue to be amazed that Dave will merrily work away, creating a page, changing things as I request them and not grizzle at my inability to be decisive about layout, colours etc.
I am really pleased that I have found some lovely quilt designs to add to our growing collection at New Country Quilts (our specialist quilt and bedlinen website) and some gorgeous blankets and throws which have now arrived with us. In the next day or so I will get my camera out and get snapping, so that I can put them on the website.
Thursday this week sees the start of Big Brother season, okay now I have a problem... do I admit that I actually do watch BB or do I pretend that I don't and have to keep a secret all summer? Hmm, looks like I've let the cat out of the bag already. That said, I promise I won't prattle on about it for the next few weeks.
Well, I'm off to carry on adding items into the database of the new website, it's a long, slow task but a great opportunity to review everything we sell and remind myself of how much I like them. And I think probably a cuppa is well overdue, chat soon, Liz
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Saturday lunchtime I headed back home again via the large garden centre in Hereford. Here I spent a pleasant hour selecting dozens of annuals to plant into a 3 tier jardiniere in our front garden. For my birthday early this year, I asked for gardening tokens, so this lovely shopping spree was actually my birthday present from mum and my sister. Once the plants are all in situ I will take some pictures.
Since I got back from my jolly, Dave and I have been working together again on the new look website... I hate that it takes so long from 'can we make it do this or that?' to the finished product, but continue to be amazed that Dave will merrily work away, creating a page, changing things as I request them and not grizzle at my inability to be decisive about layout, colours etc.
I am really pleased that I have found some lovely quilt designs to add to our growing collection at New Country Quilts (our specialist quilt and bedlinen website) and some gorgeous blankets and throws which have now arrived with us. In the next day or so I will get my camera out and get snapping, so that I can put them on the website.
Thursday this week sees the start of Big Brother season, okay now I have a problem... do I admit that I actually do watch BB or do I pretend that I don't and have to keep a secret all summer? Hmm, looks like I've let the cat out of the bag already. That said, I promise I won't prattle on about it for the next few weeks.
Well, I'm off to carry on adding items into the database of the new website, it's a long, slow task but a great opportunity to review everything we sell and remind myself of how much I like them. And I think probably a cuppa is well overdue, chat soon, Liz
All images copyright of image owners and text copyright Pretty Practicals 2006 - 2008 except where stated.
posted by Pretty Practicals | 21:33
1 Comments:
Okay Liz, I admit, I feel like a COMPLETE slacker. I swear I have not been neglecting you either. I just actually have not been on my blog all that much since we moved into the house. I will blog one day and before I know it a whole week has gone by.
I am thinking I might venture to give you a call later this week and return your sweet favor from about two months ago. I think you are 7 hours ahead, so I might call you on a weekend when I don't have to work and can call you before you head off to bed for the night. :)
You still haven't said how much of a success the show was, and I am very curious. I know you shipped a ton of catalogs. That must have been very exciting.
Glad to hear you had such a wonderful weekend with the little bro. I love the plant stand you bought too. Don't take too long before putting it to good use. Its very photogenic and will take even lovlier pictures with plants in it.
Loads of love and tons of hugs,
Michelle
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