House and Garden

It has been wild and crazy round these parts (I'm talking weather here - not life. It's always wild and crazy here as far as that's concerned!) The power went out around 1pm and we were without electricity until 10 this morning. It was quite nice playing Uno with the girls by candle light. A struggle for them though without their gadgetry "What did people used to do in the olden days, when you were a kid Mum?" Ha-bloody-ha! Perhaps that's why I am still the undisputed Queen of Uno? All that experience playing cards etc by the light of ye olde candle in the days before electricity, running water etc! 

That is Woolfy's lovely handmade garland draped across Her Maj, being blown about by the wind.

The wild weather is just a hiccup though, Summer is definitely on it's way. Our garden, not even two months in the ground, has gone gangbusters.

(click here to see how much it's grown)

And can you believe, from this little whirl of grey 'fluff'

the most beautiful flower appears?

We've had more ouchflower surprises, in orange too

And speaking of electricity (although I'm not anymore, am I?), here is the new Swedish pendant light (not Ikea) we have installed above my new desk (which you can't see in the photo because we just - by a smidge - ran out of time to install it properly - we came this close, which did make me sad, but I'm a big girl and I've gotten over it...took some time though!)

Just to show you what we're working with in this house (!) here's the same spot before we worked our ply 'magic'

Yep, that's right. The previous owners built the back extension (although to call it that is s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g the truth big time!) around the old outside dunny! (toilet) And not in a cool Iggy Peck way either! 

Notice how the toilet opened out into what can only be loosely called, our living area! Lovely! Not very pleasant when someone's doing number two's (or one's for that matter!)

Here's the desk propped in place to give you an idea of what it's going to look like when it's done

much better eh?

Our bedroom has had a fresh coat of paint too. Dulux Silver Thaw - not quite the colour I thought it was - too much purple, I thought it would be greyer, but (and I'm not sure if I should mention this here as Anth reads my blog!) we can always repaint it down the track...can't we Anthony?

Pressed tin ceiling - every room in this house has a different ceiling! Some tin, some plaster with ornate roses and cornices, and others, the 70's ones, plain and unadorned.

We have the ply cut and ready to go to build a bedhead and bed-sides, but we'll have to tackle that in the new year (that's when I'll hang my dreamcatcher Pippa)

I'll end this by saying Happy Birthday to this cheeky little Vegemite kid

Anth's Dad at seven.

and to Pippa, and Tammi (who turned the big 4-0 TODAY!) x