Life after the move!

Well here we are in our new home for at least the next six months. Yet again we have chosen a spot where the removal lorry had trouble getting in and this time, the men gave up and parked it down the lane and used a smaller van as a shuttle. Sadly this additional loading and unloading led to a few breakages, but we can live with that.

Here are a few pictures of our (soon to be elegant, not) home

 Is there anybody in?

Our well tended lawn!

Elegant lounge!

Dave's office!

Spare bedroom!

My work room!

The ultimate kitchen!

And when we had finished unloading and had unpacked until we couldn't face another box, this is the last word in elegant garden features!

I have made a list of all the things I must do in the next two weeks before I go to The Festival of Quilts, but for now the sun is still shining, we are busy meeting up with old friends and family. It's almost as if we were on holiday!

But I must get my CQ journal quilts done and apparently the Jet Stream is going to oblige and provide us with some rain on Monday. So the sewing table is up and all the fabric and yarn mountains are neatly, well nearly, stashed so no reason not to start right away! Well, perhaps tomorrow!

O M G!!!

The big question is, do two people need all this STUFF? Well obviously otherwise we wouldn't bother to keep it!

Looking out of the kitchen window on Tuesday I could just see this huge lorry inching round the bend, coming to rest in front of our drive way blocking the lane to other cars! Two lovely Cornish lads spent the whole day loading our stuff onto the lorry while we raced around making sure that everything was packed up.

Here's our stuff on the lorry, which as you can see could have taken more! 

and here is our elegant lounge as it was on Tuesday evening, just one more night before we depart!

Just the deckchairs, a bed,  a tv and a kettle, so it was a bit like being newly weds in our first home!!

So now we are here, even if we are, as yet homeless and living on the mercy of our nearest and dearest!

Now for the quilting interest. I was born in a village which is in a workaday part of Cornwall, but which has always had a place in my heart even though I haven't lived there for many years. But, they have a very active quilt group, Gate Quilters, and this weekend my DS and I went to their exhibition. What an eye opener!

I had always thought of them as rather traditional making bed quilts and cushions with a few bags thrown in. Well, not a bit of it. Yes there were some traditional quilts, but  an awful lot of  more contemporary work. A real feast for the eyes.

The exhibition was hung in the church and just going in, brought back so many childhood memories. I met up with an old school friend and chatted with some of the group members before leaving. 

Now it's stopped raining and only a few more days to go before we can move into our new home! Fingers crossed!