Is this a sign?

Have I hit the big time?
Should I look upon this as a sign? Maybe not.
But for the second time in a week I woke this morning to find spam comments here on my blog.
A little more annoying was that it wasn't just one comment. It was 18 comments. All from the same account, in Japanese. Sprinkled around my posts from the last 18 months Again it was a list of links to cheapo mass produced tat, I know this because I used a translation site to check.. It took a while to find them all and delete them.
I'd prefer not to use the comment moderation thingamajig, it makes me feel a bit big brotherish. But I don't like people fly posting links all over here either. So what to do?
Has this happened on your blog? Please share your thoughts :)

And the winner is...

I really ought to have done this last night but I had promised my daughter that she could pick the name out of the hat. I would have had a photo of her drawing the winning ticket, but I forgot to charge the camera battery, its been that kind of weekend!
But anyway onto the good bit! The winner, who chose this brooch:
is Vonnie . Please let me have your address and your parcel will be winging its way to you!

Thank you so much to everyone who entered, tweeted and whotnot, it's very much appreciated :) I I have really enjoyed doing this so I think it should become a regular feature.
Thanks again, x

Give Away Time!

To celebrate reaching 100 blog followers and 300 Twitter followers and to say thank you to you all, its time for a give away. For a chance to win a draughts or domino piece brooch simply leave a comment below with the name of the brooch you would like to win. You can check out the brooches here and here. The pic below is for illustration purposes only, there are many more designs in the shops including the 'Truly Removable Tattoos' and Japanese designs.

As before if you blog about, Tweet or mention on Face Book the give away, let me know and I'll put additional copies of your name in the hat.

The give away closes at midnight on Saturday 22nd May.

Thank you x

Edited to add I'm happy to post to anywhere in the world! My give away is open to everyone :)

More sorting...

Sice sorting out my workspace a couple of weeks ago we have been doing bits and pieces to other parts of the house. Previously we have toyed with the idea of moving house but we feel alot more settled here now. So since we are going to stay put a while longer we have been looking at how we can make better use of the rooms.
We all like to spend time in the kitchen so we have started in here. After spending a silly amount of time looking for shelves that fit this little nook I built these myself. Built is overstating it a bit - I got the wood cut to size from the local wood yard and just stacked it between the bricks. Now I can find the jars when I need them instead of scrabbling around in the cupboard.
We have lived here for about three and a half years and all that time lamented not having a kitchen table because we didn't think we could fit one in. But it turns out we can :) We moved the butchers block thingy into my workspace (more work surface for me :) and mapped out the size of table we needed. Then we trawled around antique / junk shops til we found what we wanted and could afford.
This was a complete bargain!! I'm told its Victorian, I know its solid, and just what we wanted but didn't think we could afford.

All four of us can sit round it using two chairs and two stools but it can extend to seat six. The top lifts out, the side panels pull out, then the top slots back.

Why didn't we do this 3 years ago? I wonder how many other things we could do like this!

Have a lovely holiday weekend. We are spending ours in the kitchen.