Flooring

Surfer Boy and I have been throwing around ideas for our flooring this weekend so I've spent hours hunched over the laptop looking at Salvage yards and reclaimed timber dealers.  Thought I'd take a break and see if looking at great rooms would help crystalise my thoughts.

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So I guess I have established that I like white and wood - but which one on the floor - natural timber, lime wash, or white??

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Collections

I have my tea cups, lucious lady paintings and Surfer Boy has an extensive collection of Lego minifigures for which he is rather famous.  When I saw this collection on Flikr I fell in love.  Pez are such a great thing to collect - they're relatively cheap, they bring out new designs constantly and they look fabulous displayed like this.  I'm almost tempted to start a Pez collection myself.

Finally

I ordered CDs online because I wasn't sure how long it would take me to get to the shops and the little buggers took a week and a half to send them anyway!

The postie just delivered them so I now have this in my hot little hands at last.

You can imagine how inappropriately loud this will be playing in the shop today!

Before you scoff just be glad I'm not playing the other CD that arrived today....

I Like....

Peeping In - Paul Massey

You can imagine my excitment when I discovered that the man who is responsible for one of my favourite kitchens of all time has opened his home to 'Living Etc' so now I get to fall in love with the entire home.

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What A Great Mantra...

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Small Problem...

Our fabulous new fridge arrived this morning - delivered by a lovely man nice and early so I wouldn't miss any work.  So far so good.
Turns out it doesn't fit through the front door!!!

And no, before you ask, it doesn't fit through any other door either!

Christmas Bunting

One of my so-called friends has been teasing me shamelessly about my intention to make Christmas bunting.  Well little Miss Smarty Pants, not only am I going to... I've already started and VERY SOON you will eat your words!
While I am waiting for that moment, here are some other people's Christmas bunting...

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R.I.P. Fridge

I think we must have put the evil eye on our fridge as it has suddenly decided it doesn't have any interest in being cold any longer.  Surfer Boy tried to weave his particular brand of magic but to no avail - he got the freezer working again and although the firidge is now cool it is far from cold.
Looks like we're making a purchase tomorrow.

I'm leaning towards the side-by-side variety due to our family's unnatural liking for ice-cream.  We never seem to have a freezer big enough so, short of getting a seperate one, this may be the answer. 

I've also decided that I want my fridge to be white.  If I can't have an industrial fridge (lack of space) then I want a white one, that can handle reams of artwork and birthday party invites without hindering it's mojo.

I think this one might be the winner..

Halloween

I just realised I never shared any of the Halloween photos - the kids had an absolute ball and we ended up with 58 people at one point!  I'm looking forward to hosting Halloween next year when hopefully the house will be a little larger!!

Eye Candy

Only a few more days until the tree can go up

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WINDOWS

And so it begins!

We've started to get a flurry of emails from our architect wanting us to decide on various elements of the house.  Unfortunately I was so sure that this renovation would never get the go-ahead that I completly blanked it from my mind so as to save myself from crushing disappointment.

Now I have to let her know what windows we want for each room and so the googleing begins...

 

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Dream House

It's a glorious day today in Melbourne and I have visions of myself arriving home from work  sitting in a wicker chair on the balcony of this house sipping a mint julep and reading 'The Great Gatsby' while someone lovely packs me a picnic dinner to take down to the lake that I'm sure is just out of shot..... Ahhhh it's relaxing just dreaming about it.

It Can't Be True

I can't quite believe it but after 18 months we have FINALLY had our extension rubber stamped!!  No conditions, no changes - it's done.
I'm still in shock and I think and haven't quite grasped the fact that I can now let my imagination have full reign.  I can now start looking further ahead and start choosing materials and make decisions based on a home that may actually exist some day.

We've even met a couple of builders and may be able to lock in a date before the end of the month.  It all seems rather unreal but I'm sure it will sink in soon and I'll go nuts.  Stay tuned for lots of posts detailing the boring minutiae of the reno.

Shabner/Lynch/Tretchikoff

Kate Middleton

I am more than happy to call Kate my princess - she roller skates for heaven's sake!!

Congratulation to her and Will and may married life treat them kindly.

I'm Doing Christmas This Year....

This could very well be the outcome!

It's late and I need sugar!