Bad at being crafty

Since moving back to England, I've been surprisingly bad at being creative. I haven't yet finished the cross-stitch I started in Spain, or the Birthday Blanket that's been ongoing since last October in France. I also actually haven't started any other projects, as surprising as that is!

All I've managed to do is do some baking, such as this apple and cinnamon cake:

Aside from the lack of crafting I've completed, and the baking that's been done, mostly my wife and I have been settling into the apartment. We've still been doing some tidying and organising of our stuff, including buying things for our new home like the microwave we picked up today:

But speaking of being crafty, I've been having a little look at what Christmas gifts to make for people and decided on what to make my mother and grandmother so as soon as I've managed to finish the cross-stitch from Spain, I'll be making a start on those. I will get better at crafting again, promise!

A New Chapter

It feels like an awfully long time since I posted on here, but I've been more than a little busy. Since returning from Barcelona on August 26th, my wife and I have been in the process of moving ourselves 100 miles from our hometown. We picked up the keys for our new rented flat on the 28th and proceeded to move all the stuff we'd been saving in a storage facility those 100 miles ... all in our Fiat 500! It's taken us five journeys (and around 900 miles) so far and we still don't have everything here. 

That first week where we went back and forth three days in a row was very tiring, and then just a week after getting into the flat, I started work! A new flat and a new job, especially when you've spent the last year getting to stay at home and be crafty all the time, seems rather crazy, but there you go. Why wouldn't you want to do everything at once?

You might be wondering why we've moved 100 miles away from the rest of our family, but the answer is simple: my wife still has a year of university to complete and Oxford is where that is. I wasn't about to let her go off on her own now, was I?

In just under three weeks, we've mostly set up our flat the way we'd like it (thankfully it was furnished) and a lot of it has just been waiting for services to be switched over and on. We managed to get a Sky subscription installed last Friday and the phone line and internet have only been active since yesterday (thank goodness for iPhones!) so we're really getting there now. 

So here you, a quick look at the place we're calling home:

Bedroom

Lounge

Dining end of the lounge and door to the kitchen

We're especially enjoying having a separate kitchen with an oven and actual space to prepare food. That and being able to put up the frames we had stored has been really nice, along with having much more space to be in than we had in our teeny tiny French flat!

Well, what do you think of our new abode? Any ideas of where we can get a cheap chest of drawers to supplement our clothes storage? Any of you moved home recently too?