Chez Spud

I got a present today. A present from me for me. A Self-Present. No reason really, I pretended it was a ‘Well done Spud on your new job, From Spud xx’ present but really it was a ‘just because’ kind of gift. I’m OK with that…I come from a long line of Self-Presenters, well my mother was one anyway. Every Christmas she would buy herself a present from herself, wrap it up, pop it under the tree and then be absolutely delighted with it. Every one a winner!

For about a year I’ve had Ravenhill’s Etsy shop marked as a favourite and, in particular, her beautiful matryoschka dolls.  I particularly love the ‘attachment parenting’ ones with babies in slings but my babywearing days are pretty much over and, besides, I’m not that keen on those muted tones.

So I chose the one in my favourite colours…turquoise and acquas. Lovely. This one, the one on the left. Isn’t she a doll (well she is, of course, but you know what I mean). Here she is, out of her beautiful packaging and settling in to Chez Spud, looking around anxiously for marauding Megaboys…

She’s quite a delight. I’m rather thrilled with my Self-Present actually, I know it’s indulgent but I Don’t Care and I’m Worth It (flicks hair about in manner of just stepped out of the salon smuggery).

It’s only very recently that I’ve realised that turquoise/acquas are my favourite colours, and I wear them with increasing frequency. Here…

and here

oh and these shoes. I love these shoes, they have GOLD soles…if only they had diamonds on the soles then I could write a song about them and become a gazillionare…

But it turns out other people have tuned in to my preferences before I managed to notice it myself…the wife made this for me Diggy

Julochka made the fish in this photo for me, and her daughter made some of the clay figures (I made the crap ones), and Kristina gave me the little cup

And when I look around I see this corner of Diggy’s room

and remember the decorative border in Bertie’s room as a baby

and hints of it in the curtains even…

All of which has made me decide that if I EVER find and keep a web designer to overhaul Chez Spud, I will be going with turquoise and acquas as my colour theme. The post I wrote a few weeks back about having finally found a designer who didn’t disappear off the planet was premature as, erm, she has disappeared off the planet. I am worried about her though as she is having a complicated pregnancy.

The first one also disappeared off the planet without warning. I was so worried about her too but it turns out I needn’t have wasted my energy. Whilst she was supposed to be working on the final template design for my blog, having taken 50% of her fee, she was overhauling her own website which has now launched. I’m very very cross, she just never replied to emails…many, many, many emails asking if she and her family were OK (they had been ill with swine flu). Eventually I got my money back through a paypal dispute but I’m furious to find I needn’t have been anxious about her welfare, she was just off doing her own stuff. I’m so, SO tempted to name and shame actually. I just can’t think what the problem was…although I her prices have increased massively from the amount she quoted for me. Perhaps she realised she’d undersold herself so didn’t see the job through? Really unprofessional, shabby actually.

And breathe.

I need a turquoise/aqua gin cocktail made by Julochka

Served in the blue room, where else?

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