Today has been a horrid day and I am so glad it is over.... finally.
Anglian came back again - this is an ongoing saga that has been going on since April and ... finally ... I think we are done. The door is incredibly stiff but we will live with it. The bad bits have been fixed and I just don't want workmen here again for a very very long time. The entire triple patio door had to come out again. The mess, the noise, the worry. Horrible.
In addition to that - and with dustsheets throughout the house and two vans on the drive, a lorry pulled up with our replacement suite. Our new suite had to be re-made as it was made of two different leathers. The new one is now in and fine and now pretty much everything that we have had done this year that went wrong has been corrected.
Balcony - up, down, up again and now fine
Roof - fine, leaking, refelted, fixed
Artificial grass - down, up, down, up, down, up and finally down
Patio doors - in, our, in, adjusted, out, in, out, in
Three piece suite - in, out, in
Kitchen windows in - end caps to be refitted then we are done!
Oh boy - what a year. Done now. Not doing any more 'home improvements' as it often doesn't improve the home. House now deep cleaned, cats comforted (it has been hard ont hem) all fixtures and fittings back. Champagne tonight.
I tried to scrap today to relieve the stress. It didn't. But this is the page I made anyway.
This the first September challenge for Stuck Sketches and it is a page for the Disneyland Holiday. Mary Poppins was just such a bright vibrant section of the parade and the sketch worked well for it.
It was nice to scrap a happy colourful page (using very old Basic Grey)
Today I am thankful for
- today being over
- the house being restored
- hopefully the end of the workmen ... well at least indoors.
- my wonderful husband who manages to deal with the work and my anxieties
some more of those bar codes
Your page is lovely with the warm colour palette and the Butterflies. It's always great to use up older stash too. Thanks for playing along with us at Stuck?! Sketches!
Posted by: Helen | September 13, 2017 at 09:48 AM
This is such a pretty page, love this colour combo and fun stamped images! Thank you for joining us at Stuck?! Sketches!
Posted by: Laura | September 14, 2017 at 03:49 AM
Great paper choices for your photo. Love your embellishing and title work. Thanks for playing along with Stuck?! Sketches!!!
Posted by: Sandy Ross | September 16, 2017 at 02:19 PM
Love the colors on this beautiful page! Thanks for joining us at Stuck?! Sketches!
Posted by: LisaM | September 20, 2017 at 01:17 AM