Where is Spring?

Hi there,

Are you one of us patiently waiting for the spring to come? We are indeed very fed up here in Surrey, where lots of snow and cold wind made our town look like a winter wonderland! We have been patiently waiting for a sign, a tiny sign of Spring, but feel like we are nowhere near…..

But I was working in the garden yesterday and surprisingly the sign of Spring is everywhere! Apart from a snow damaged trellis for our white jasmine, small buds are appearing slowly. Our roses have little pink buds all over, and clematis too it has tiny green side shoots! Ah that’s why I love this country – we have beautiful four seasons, don’t we?

Also we are doing a bit of re-decorating. After Christmas decorations are all gone and boxes are cleared away, it looks a bit bare. Although the coat rack in the hall is still full of thick jackets and logs are piled up in the basket, home decor doesn’t need to be wintry, does it? To brighten up inside the home we bought a basket full of crocus bulbs and a bunch of tulips from a local garden center. Now our living room is very colorful, and we can almost smell the sweet spring in the house!

Don’t forget to look at our website for pretty home accessories to brighten up your home. You don’t need to be an interior designer to create beautiful home. JasmineWay Home Accessories

Take care,
Jasmine

Happy New Year and JasmineWay’s Experience with Swine Flu

Hello everyone,

Hope you are still enjoying the festive season! Just wanted to wish you a very happy new year. Isn’t it really hard to keep your house tidy at this time of the year? With various visitors asking to be fed, sadly the decor of our home will be the last thing we want to think about. Our living room is a full of things ranging from Christmas tree (of course), baskets with various biscuits and fruits, cat toys on the floor (!) etc. Does your home look the same?

I have been a bit lazy and didn’t blog much lately, but there was a reason for it. I came down with double pneumonia and swine flu in early November last year, and spent nearly 2 weeks in the hospital. It happened so quickly – it seems to have started with a Sunday dinner with my sister’s family and that was it. My little niece was coughing suffering from flu like symptoms at the time. Two days later I started to develop high fever and it went on and on. I was almost unconscious for about a week with high fever, but unfortunately it was very difficult to seek medical assistance because of the panic associated with this national pandemic scheme. You need to call a helpline, but you are just told to rest. Then it doesn’t improve and you call them again to be told exactly the same thing. It was absolutely a nightmare! I was whisked away to A&E twice, but still I was sent home (first time without any treatment whatsoever and second time with antibiotics for pneumonia). But third time lucky I was finally admitted to St. Georges’ Hospital in South London. Once I was admitted an intensive antibiotics treatment started straight away. But still it took more than 10 days for my pneumonia to clear. Because along the way I caught swine flu as well (doctors didn’t know which one came first, pneumonia or swine flu), I was in a very serious condition. But I can tell you, I highly praise NHS services at St. Georges’ Hospital. They were very efficient and everybody is extremely caring. I can’t thank them enough for what they have done for me.

One thing I’d like to let everybody know is to “get a swine flue jab” as soon as possible. I know many people are concerned about side effect etc., but you need to remember, once you became one of these seriously ill patients, mortality rate is 50%!  I can believe this from my own experience. So please everyone – get vaccinated! One simple jab may save your life and your loved ones’.

And thank you for supporting JasmineWay with many invaluable suggestions for our products. We are visiting tradeshows in London and Paris soon, and we promise to bring back more beautiful home accessories to share with you.

Don’t forget to take a look at our website – it’s full of unusual items for Home and Garden. JasmineWay Home Accessories

Take care,
Jasmine