Champagne Lifestyle on a Lemonade Budget - 2021

phoebe1989seb

That's great, Helen... always a relief, too 😀

Nice to know you were missed, Mrs P 😁

My champagne moments today - the lights I ordered yesterday arrived this morning! Probably won't get them up this weekend as we're too busy working on the decorating elsewhere 🙄 but they're just as gorgeous as I'd hoped (and I saved a little on the purchase price too!).

Also, we took receipt of two lovely original Victorian external doors (one is arched!) that were being replaced with UPVC 🙁 at the gothic gatehouse DH is renovating. These will look fab wherever we decide to use them.... and cost absolutely zero 😍

We did have to return the footstool/small table purchased for the reading nook as it just didn't work in the space, so back to the drawing board on that.....

sugarbaby125

Phoebe you are having so many Champagne moments this month. Your house fabbing is constantly progressing. You and your husband possess such a multitude of skills between you and have such a great eye for design and you both have style. 

It looks like 2022 is going to be your year 

LL great news about your boiler and your car passing it's MOT.  I hope your electric circuit is back to normal soon. 

Mrs. P what a lovely compliment. Nice to know that others miss our presence 

sugarbaby125

My Champagne moment yesterday was going to visit my brother H, who thankfully lives local to me. He was far more steady on his feet than he has been recently, which I was relieved to see. We had a laugh together. 

phoebe1989seb

You're so sweet, Sugarbaby, thank you! I hope so.... although it didn't seem like it yesterday, lol, when we awoke to a plumbing leak in the kitchen ceiling (caused, we later discovered, by a loose connection beneath the freestanding bath), so DH had to remove a chunk of (fortunately unplastered) plasterboard to investigate the source 🙁

It had seeped along the length of the massive rsj we fitted back in 2018. Luckily it hadn't dripped down onto the sofa etc below and nor had it - huge relief! - got into the nearby electrics. The plumber responsible was DH's erstwhile 'partner', who left under a cloud recently...so you can imagine the sort of names he was being called in our household yesterday!!!

Fortunately we know someone who can fix it 😀

Things went from bad to worse later when the pipe from a removed radiator decided to empty some water (supposedly all disposed of) onto the bedroom floor, which in turn also ran down into the (opposite end of the) kitchen ceiling...grrrr!

Anyway, the good news is that no real damage was done 😎

Today's champagne moment - immersing myself in DH's copy of the fabulous "The Prickotty Bush" from the comfort of my new reading nook 😄

I have ordered a pretty plug-in wall light (half price 😉) to better illuminate it on dull days such as today. It will be here tomorrow....whoop!

Kitchen flowers and bulbs this morning.....

MrsPorridge

Those flowers look lovely.

Champagne moment today catching up with friends for lunch at the local garden centre.

sugarbaby125

Phoebe, once again you and your husband had the knowledge and skills to save the day. Your husband is well rid of his ex work partner. The flowers are gorgeous. 

My Champagne moment yesterday afternoon was going to see the film The 355 at my local Odeon cinema. I really love this all action film. 4 beautiful, strong, smart female leads with a great storyline and a twist in the story. For me personally it was a 9/10 

I wrapped all of the presents for my Great grandson's 1st birthday. They are all ready for my son-in-law to collect on Thursday, when he also comes with my grandson to collect all of the alcohol I said my grandson could have for free for his son's 1st birthday party for all of the adults. 

phoebe1989seb

Thanks Mrs P and Sugarbaby 😃

You're so right about DH's ex business partner, Sugarbaby!!!

And how very generous of you to gift your grandson the alcohol for the adults attending your great grandson's 1st birthday party 😁

MrsPorridge

Champagne moment today, phoning the tax office and getting a helpful adivsor and I have now transferred my tax allowance to DH - marriange allowance.

phoebe1989seb

Super, Mrs P 😀

Today's champagne moment for me -

I've been employing the practice of *shopping my home*, lol, in order to bring in a few finishing touches to the reading nook and it's looking lovely now!

Having returned the small rattan table to Homesense at the weekend, we found a far more appropriate (because it's textile, so better suited to the bedroom, imho) 'durrie' pouffe in Habitat (Argos) to utilise as a drinks table/footstool 😄

So, this morning, for the pouffe I found a small wooden tray that I've now repainted with leftover F&B Oval Room Blue eggshell, a Waxed Lyrical raspberry fizz scented candle and a coaster (actually an Arts & Crafts tile trivet 😉) to sit on the tray plus a few decorative items for the wall-mounted shelf. All these were sitting around elsewhere in the house, just waiting to be appropriated! Total cost - nada!

Less nice - a) finding a tiny, not-quite-dead mouse in the mousetrap we'd set in the bin store, because b) something had chewed a huge hole in the lid of the food waste bin we keep out there 😮
Somehow, I don't think the poor little mouse was the culprit.....

MrsPorridge

Champagne moment today - a surprise fish and chip lunch sat in the car overlooking the sea.