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…It was my birthday last week and lets just say that I am not amused with my age.

Anyway, I had some fantastic presents (my main one from David is still to arrive but I will let you know what that is in a week or so) including this gorgeous spiral cushion from my sister. I have been trying to decide on what colour combination to have for a while but she made my mind up for me with this two tone grey number. She makes all the felt by hand including the spiral. I think I may want another one, I just have to decide what colour to have…

…I’ve been busy with my angle grinder and I’ve attacked the spiral staircase to the loft!

I’ve been waiting for a local metal company to give me a quote for the last six weeks for a new spiral staircase and still nothing. What’s wrong with these companies, I would have thought they would be falling over themselves for new business in the current financial climate!? I think what I wanted was far too minimal for him and he was most disappointed when he suggested having hearts cut into the metalwork and I said no thanks! So I have unscrewed and cut away the vile uprights and handrail which has made a huge improvement. The before pic below on the left was taken nine years ago when we moved in…


I did start painting the wooden steps a while ago but I’m not sure what to do with them at the moment? I had thought of stripping them back and re-varnishing but as you can see each step has a hole in them where the metalwork was attached…


I may fill the holes in the wood and carry on painting them or remove them altogether and get metal ones made and attach them. Now do I paint it the same grey or black or white or…

A new occasional feature about what has caught my obsessive beady eye. A check list of gorgeousness if you like of what keeps me awake at night because I simply must have them ( eventually ) and how they will look and where they will go in our apartment…

1. Photographic lamp base and shade ( I’m thinking for the loft….) Habitat
2. Manhattan screen print ( already bought one for David for Christmas, just need to get it framed! ) ORK
3. Orb 3 piece pestle and mortar JosephJoseph
4. Flap clock ( bought one recently and it looks awesome in the kitchen) Habitat
5. Krenit salad bowl and servers norman- copenhagen
6. Sarrinen side table ( this is in the realms of big time money and long time lusting! ) Knoll

How do you make a happy and harmonious home? Buy a second iPad of course! It got the better of us on Monday morning when the iPad finally became available to pre-order in the UK. It was also partly due to David wanting one with built in 3G and more storage than the 16gb one we had already bought. So “his” one will be a hand me down to me and I will be able to use it in the kitchen. It will replace the touch screen PC we recently bought which was David’s choice and I have moaned ever since that it was far too large! Happy days…