Kelly Rolfe is a beautiful princess

Just putting it out there! 

I know people don't actually read this blog...

...but JUST IN CASE they actually do!

Please would you sponsor me: http://www.justgiving.com/SuffolkWholeHog

Me and some other chumps what I know are doing this crazy mud run, and I'd feel like the whole thing was a little less mental if a charity was benefiting from it. (Although I'm really just doing it for very selfish, personal reasons- it looks fun, it will be a story and it might help keep me in shape!)

Thanks!

Upcycling- a new addiction

I've been most enjoying the sunny weather recently but my cheap table and chairs for the garden is now about 5 years old and everytime you sit down on it you get covered in this white crap, not ideal!

Also recently I've developed an addiction to Pinterest, which had led me into a false sense of confidence about my DIY skills. I decided that rather than get a new set, I would upcycle my old table and chairs into something very fabulous! 

I went and brought some straight to rust pink paint and got to work! 

My enthusiasm lead to a few over-sites
1. Lots of thin layers are better than one thick layer

2. It's a good idea to cover bits that you don't want to get paint on for example, the floor, the chair seats, your clothes
3. Don't have a BBQ the day after you have painted your chairs, even if the paint does seem dry- if you have painted it too thick it's not actually dry and all your guests will get pink paint on them.

Nether the less, I managed to get the pink paint off my guests and also found out my little corner shop sell turps so no harm done!

After a few more coats of paint I was happy with the pink, but thought the black seats looked a bit weird now (plus they were spotted with blobs of pink paint) so I decided to change the seats as well.
I'm not very confident on my sewing skills so I didn't want to recover the seats but if Pinterest has taught me anything it's that I can spraypaint the shit out of anything I want!

Unfortunately the colour I wanted was only available in teeny tiny cans instead of the normal size can so i had to buy 9 cans to finish the project!

                       

Anyway a few lessons learned along the way but otherwise I'm pretty happy with the results and hopefully I'll get a few more years out of them and we will have lots more lovely weather so I can get good use out of them! 

 

I'm back (for now!)

My lovely friend Jess has recently jumped feet first into the world of social media starting a Facebook competition, twitter account and a fancy new blog all in quick succession (it’s very good check it out here). 

Her venturing’s out into the online world reminded me that I also have a blog! One which I don’t appear to have updated in over two years …

A few little things might have changed since my last post, for ease I will bullet point below:

• Matt and I broke up. It was all very sad at the time but we are good friends now.
• I’m now doing an Open University degree ‘Computing and IT’. The dream is to become an awesome computer programmer and make more money than I do now!
• I lost and gained 3 stone. At least I’m no bigger than I was when I started.
• Quit smoking, it’s been 3 months so far so I’m counting that as a win.
• Turned gay. Well not turned gay, I was born that way and all that jazz. I've been with my lady love Kelly for nearly 2 years now.

Anyway that’s everything just about caught up.Hopefully I won’t leave it another 2 years before my next post but we will see!

Oh and in case you were worried, I'm still trying to master drawing on MS Paint. Here is a picture of Kelly wot I drew

She is a proper lesbian so she plays hockey and has short hair.