"The Hoppy Hoppy Sparrow": Out with the New, In with the Old....

This has been SUCH a nice week - probably greatly due to (but not only because) I have had four out of the last five days off work. *Let it be known that up until a few weeks ago, I was totally (not fully knowingly) unhappy at work. Now - exciting news - I have QUIT! yES!! I love quitting things that i HATE. It really doesn't happen very often anymore, but it is such an absolutely liberating feeling - almost as exhilerating as completing a goal I've set out to do. I know it sounds ridiculous and not very reasonable - but I think it is completely AS important as following through with important things : quitting unimportant things. If you just aren't happy, and have truly given it a good go, then just stop! You could actually be missing out on something that would make you happy. I was at my job for 2 1/2 years - dont' get me wrong, I really adore the people I work for and with, I think it just had something more to do with the fact that I have not been challenged once since the first day I started. There is definitley something to be said for an easy job/life sometimes, it can be relieving, relaxing, or perhaps a nice change if you've got a semi or full-blown hectic lifestyle. However - I do not. And what I do have in my life, is the evergrowing need to be creatively challenged, and enlightened! Unfortunately, my job with lovely people could not fullfill either of these necessities. Anyways, job quit = me happy. I will however miss things like this:

Marc dressing like a total creep to make me laugh.

which he does, and I do.

Liam doing things like bringing his home-brewed coffee to work in an empty CAN with a SOCK around it because it's hot. WOW. and yes, this actually happened.

So job gone, but.....

I have ALSO found a new one! haha...one day a week at a new place, fresh atmosphere, ALL I need. One day a week working while I am finishing the last year of my Degree. WOOHOO! I am SO excited to get back into it and eventually finish it and, eventually, get a REAL job - one that creatively challenges me, demands me to push myself!! Can't.wait. ....except I can in one sense beCAUSE the past few days of not having a job that demands anything of me has meant that I've been able to get some mega craftyness on the go.

I made some curtains for the lounge in our new place...

I recovered these chairs!!! with AWESOME fabric:

Will and I successfully purchased a dining table and four chairs for 10 quid on ebay, booya.

Will paints :)

How good do these bad boys look now? love.

This is pretty much me this past week.

This, however, is not my creation. Our friends live right on the prom, overlooking the sea, and one of them made these gorgeous mosaics of seehorses - beaut!

And this is my coffee and the amazing view from their place that day...

This is a fabulously bespoke gate that's rather hidden away just a block from our place

This is some 70's-tastic fabric that I found at a car-boot sale earlier this week. It will be framed and be proudly presented in my 'retro-corner'.

This is a WICKED din-dins we had on Monday. I know it looks disgusting (food photography is, sadly, not one of my greatest skills) but I assure you, agedashi tofu with roast veg stir-fry with basmati is the shiz.

This was equally as yum! Pesto and salad, simples!

So, this week has been pretty chilled out and swish, BUT it's not been all good. One of my favourite peeps has left me :( PAUL!! Paul has been one of my best mates for a while now, and we would talk, if not see each other, every day. In fact, I would go as far as to say that I wouldn't be suprised if Will was a bit jealous...aww. So, Paul has decided to follow his wild heart and skip off to Thailand (again) for an undetermined period of time. I am SO sad to not have him around anymore, even though I think what he is doing is absolutely for the best. It has to be done! And I, myself, would be the ultimate hypocrit if I didn't understand (hence, being a Canadian who followed her heart to England...). Alas, my dear Paul...I miss you so!!