This weekend...

i was mostly watching stuff like this!

That's the Jet Car, it can make it down the quarter mile long strip in just over SIX seconds, that's an amazing 254mph!

Actually, i wasn't mostly watching stuff like that, i was watching my friends take their campers, beetles and anything else VW down the track too! Someone has a camper that can do the quarter mile in 12 seconds!! The average camper can do it in around 20 seconds with under 18 being considered fast!! It was an AWESOME weekend and i can't wait to go again next year :oD

Next camping is the 8th of May when we take off for the wilds of Tunbridge Wells to celebrate Trout's 21st birthday - how did she get to be so grown up.... and how did i get to be so old? ;o)

TA-DA!!

The van interior was finished in time for a weekend of wonderful camping!
That there^^ is the bed in place and the one below is the usual seating mode ;o)

I am a very happy Franney, the corners worked a dream and the full width bed is super comfy :oD

Six down... One to go!!

Today i made the sixth cushion cover, this was one of the awkward ones with a corner cut out of it. It was more awkward with just the underneath corner cut out, but i was having difficulty in working out how to make the cover so i have gone for the easier solution! I think it looks ok though, it sits round the wheel arch nicely, and more importantly Bloke is happy with it :oD

And the last piece of foam has just arrived (they sent the wrong size before) so i'm off to do the final bit of sewing (for now - Bloke wants curtains next!)

My weekends...

Have mostly been taken up with this...



This is the inside of our new T4 van that we are currently converting, it started out as a mini-bus with a row of three seats along the tailgate and a two seat unit in the middle, they've been ripped out and Bloke (with a little of my help) has designed and built this custom interior...
I've still got some more staining and varnishing to do (all the light wood needs to be black) and once the foam and fabric arrive i can start sewing the cushion covers too but we are running pretty much to schedule with two weekends and three weeks of build time left before our first camping trip this year :oD

*bounce bounce*