Old Bathroom Be Gone!

One of the biggest projects on our to-do list this weekend, was to completely gut the exisitng bathroom/laundry. With Roh's Dads help, they managed to get it completely gutted within the day, all ready for the electrician to put in the new wires and box on Monday.

Here's a peek at what went on...

More updates coming very soon!

Lego Love

Jude's latest thing is building spaceships, and giving them to me and Roh. Here are a couple of his creations...my ship is the one with the flowers :-P

Two Wheelin'

Lana finally got her confidence up last week, to ask her Daddy to take off her training wheels. It only took a few goes with Daddy helping before she was off on her own.

Creative Crochet

I am quite new at this whole crochet thing, but I feel I've got the granny square sorted now, which is great. And maybe it's time for me to challenge myself a bit. Recently I've been coming across some absolutely wonderful crochet designs and patterns that I can't wait to try. Some very cute, some super creative and some just plain fantastic.

Time to share :

First up, my darling friend Cass bought me this seriously funky book, which I love...my only problem being - what pattern should I try first?? :-P

Star Wars - Heroes of the Rebellion - how awesome :-P

Mushroom Cuties...

Robots, Rockets and UFO's - very cool

Melvin the Snail - adorable :-)

Fishbones - How odd and so cute.

I came across this darling Miss Strawberry on Mel Goodsell's blog, made by Salihan Crafts and just had to get the pattern. I'm picturing it in hot pink, with an aqua flower, and pea green leaves - perfect for a certain little girl's new bedroom. I really want to give this one a try when we are in Merimbula, in a couple of weeks. Plus I'll have on hand, my super talented sis-n-law Reeze to help, if I get stuck :-P

Babette blankets - love them! Images taken from here, here and here.

Happy Sunday!

House Update

Ok, so I'm going to be a bit cheeky and put the updates on the photos today. Here they are :

A Bit of Jude

Makes Me Happy

Michael Buble....need I say more? he he

Today...

..our bathroom looks like this...

Star Wars - Scienceworks Outing

Just a few photos from our day out at Scienceworks, in particular, the Star Wars exhibit. Jotting this down for memories sake, so apologies for the dodgy photos - it was dark and flash was required :-P

Orla Kiely Love

To my absolute excitement, I spotted Orla Kiely manchester in Myer on Friday. I wish they had some kitchenware too...but here are three favourites that I saw....

I definitely think I'm going to get the towels, but not sure on which, if any, quilt cover to go with. Thoughts?

Up to this...

Family Bathroom...almost tiled

Fully tiled and the white tiles have been grouted. The pebble feature has yet to be grouted in this pic, but it is done (will have to take another photo :-p)

Ensuite - Feature wall of tiles in shower nook, matching sized white tiles for the rest. Ensuite is two thirds tiled.

Ensuite - Roh tiling...caught by surprise.

The kitchen area..and our mosaic tiles, which I just LOVE! Here's the overview...

Close up of stove top and tiled splashback...

New sink and tile splashback :-)

New tap - Milli design

At the moment the sink and tap are just looking pretty, not yet having been connected up, but it wont be long.

In other exciting news (well, in my world) we bought a new fridge which is being delivered on Friday - a Samsung, platinum, side-by-side with ice/water dispenser. This is the first ever new fridge I've bought, so can't wait to get it.

Also, I've picked up the paint for the kitchen - the red is called 'Firefly' by Wattyl, and the white is called 'Pale Mushroom' by Haymes and I'm itching to start painting. Not quite ready for it today, but soon, I'm told - yay!

3 out of 4

Just a quick share of 3 layouts..the fourth is actually still at Dan's :-P

"Alannah - Five"...using lots of 'Flirty Little Secret' by Prima.


"Luna Park" - this is my take on sketch #2 over at the Scrapability Blog..

"Queen Alexandra" - photo taken by DQ at a extended family photo shoot on Brighton Beach. This is my adorable niece (the youngest of the girls) sitting among her cousins stripey legs.

Back with house pics soon xx

Looking Forrward to...

Receiving this - The Making Memories Slice in PINK! How cute ;-) My dear friend Cass, over at The Crafty Cat Classroom is selling them (I think they are arriving today from the states) and I just couldn't resist. I think she may even have a couple left, if you want one too :-) Going to have some fun, fun with this little gadget! Seeing Lisa Mitchell perform - take 2 for me and Dan. She was scheduled to play at Ruby's last week, but due to a huge power-out, the show was cancelled. Her new show at Ruby's is on Wednesday night - yay! Am really glad it is school holidays - I may even get a little sleep in. Should be a great gig though. Lisa's new album is fab :-)

Will venture back to my blog a little sooner than my last break (how slack was I?? lol) with photos of the house which is coming along nicely, and also some scrapbook layouts....yes, you read right - 4 to be exact and all completed yesterday - I think that's a record for me :-P

Have a great Friday!