We found a beautiful house...

But, we're not buying it.

We were going to put an offer on, but I have been doing badly at work so Adam has decided he doesn't want to buy it now. I don't know how I feel.

On the one hand, I think that yes I have let some of the invoices slide. But, since I started working more seriously for the company we have been taking a lot more money. Adam was hesitant to spend the money already, before these issues came up. Nothing's changed in regards to the money we have or haven't got.

On the other, should I be more upset? I feel like I don't really care... I don't know if that's because it doesn't feel 100% final, he might change his mind. Or am I just not that bothered about the house? I can't tell.

I find the whole situation with houses so frustrating. Do I want to move to Sheffield, or stay in Barnsley? Do I want to sell our house or rent it out? How much do I want to spend? Do I want to move, or should I just stay where I am, do ours up, and buy a holiday home in a year or two? I genuinely just do not really know. When we were looking in Sheffield, I wanted to stay in Barnsley. Now we're considering staying in Barnsley, I want to move to Sheffield. I wish I could make up my mind, it's a pain being so indecisive!

Living room redecoration: Part 2

Some photos from during our living room redecoration:



Adam's Dad painting the walls for us



Adam spotted this table outside a junk shop driving to a job one day. He told me about it and I drove out to the shop, and bought it - for £5! Bargain. It has the TV on now, and I really love it.



The new fire on it's maiden voyage after just being installed by Adam.

Living room redecoration: Part 1

When we first moved into our house, we decorated everything in a bit of a rush. We didn't have loads of money to spare on decorating and we had to do every room in one go as we had knocked the house back to bare brick, and started completely again from scratch. We moved walls and swapped rooms around and took rooms out. It was a big job.

Now that I know a bit more about decorating, and I have more of an idea about what looks good and seen things that I like home-decor wise, I was unhappy with some of the rooms in the house. Mainly the living room and the kitchen. The living room was so plain and boring. We had some nice wallpaper on the chimney breast wall but the walls were plain and neutral and we didn't have any photos or personal bits up around the room or on the walls or anything. So, we decided to redecorate and start with the living room.

Here are the before pictures of our living room redecoration:

My first homemade blanket

I'd been wanting to learn how to crochet for ages, and in particular I'd been wanting to make my own blanket for ages. I'm so pleased that I managed to learn how to do it! I'd been trying to teach myself for ages but never quite grasped it, then last year I worked with a girl called Sarah who crocheted and she kindly taught me.



It's not massive, just a lap blanket and it was done up until a few days ago, when I decided to add a couple more rounds to it to make it slightly bigger. But I love it and I'm excited to snugglee up under it this winter.



I've already crocheted a couple more things too - a tiny bobble hat for an egg and one baby shoe!