Love this home

How gorgeous does this look? My sister's sister in law posted this on her FaceBook. Sadly the inside is less spectacular. For $1.2M you can have this plus the acreage that comes with it.

Our View

Our town has a local show each year which we just love. I've been going to it for (oh my goodness!) more than 20 years. The show has a fireworks display each year and we live right behind the show grounds so we have a prime viewing position right here at home.

This year both the kids were scared of the noise so we watched from our bedroom, simply opening the curtains for a look. Something must have changed slightly in the set-up this year because this time we could actually see the fireworks being lit and igniting- that's how close we are.

We took some pictures which don't really show how close we are but worth sharing all the same. So here's the view from our back door- could we be any luckier?

Lovely new look blog

Do you love the new look of the blog as much as I do? Once again the wonderful Katrina Chambers has done a fabulous job of blog transformation. You can check out Katrina's own website here. I think I came across Katrina initially after discovering the wonderful Decorating Forum.  I highly recommend both Katrina and the forum so if you haven't already checked it out you should get to it.

Thanks so much Katrina, I love working with you!

Sick

I've been sick for a week now. The diagnosis is colitis, probably triggered by something I ate or caught from someone else. Last week the doctor told me I needed to go straight onto a strict, bland diet. I wasn't very good at following instructions and I ate a whole lot of food on the weekend that I shouldn't have.

I am now paying for that decision in a big way. And this time I'm really on the bland diet. I can only consume easy to digest foods, preferably runny in texture. So far I've lost about 2 kilos which is an added bonus I guess. Here is a snapshot of what my meals look like.

And here's what I'm having for dinner, probably flavoured with another cuppa soup.

Frustrated Friday!

Well yes I know it's not Friday but I'm thinking of making this a regular feature. I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling totally and utterly frustrated with the renovation process. In fact I've been so frustrated that I couldn't even be bothered blogging about ALL THE THINGS THAT NEVER GET DONE AROUND HERE!


Righteo then. Things that I am currently frustrated by:

1. I want the bookcase upstairs so that I can paint the laundry cupboard white and use it in the lounge room. The entire decorating process that I have planned has the movement of this cupboard at the top of its list. Until it gets moved I'm stuck looking at a cupboard that shouldn't be there.

2. I want the rest of the house painted. Which can't happen until the cornice is on. Which can't happen until it is manufactured. Which can't happen until goodness knows when.

3. I want my newly painted bathroom to be joined by a freshly painted bathroom door. This is necessary as someone under the age of 3 decided it would be fun to draw all over the door in permanent marker while I was showering.

There are more frustrations, many more, but this will do for today.

See you on Friday for the next installment.

Frustration

I've been frustrated lately. And down. So I decided to a. stick up for myself and b. rearrange the furniture. The results have been a two-fold success. I'm back blogging and life is alright again.

Currently loving

Harvey Norman has a new range of outdoor furniture which I think would look equally lovely inside. What do you think?

For sale- gorgeous gates

Back before the GFC ate our business for dinner we used to own a metal recycling business. Because we still have a Yellow Pages listing we often get phone calls from people wanting to see us metal products. In our time we've picked up some beauties including a spiral staircase.

Last week we received a call from a lady wanting to get rid of these beauties. So we snapped them up and are selling them on. I decided to do a blog post because I'd love to see them go to a local house blogger or friend thereof. They are truly stunning and we would use them ourselves if we had any space for them.

The gates are currently chained to our fence so apologies for the picture quality. Obviously (hopefully) the tall spiky bits are our fence palings and the flowery and question mark looking parts are the gates. The picture shows the back of the gates.

Vital Specs:

• 3m high
• 1m wide per gate (so 2m total span)
• Made from genuine solid iron (not tubed)
• Heavy, very heavy! You would need to put up some serious poles to hold them.
• Gorgeous flower patterning
• Gate closer thingys (see my expert knowledge coming out) are all intact
• We are in Brisbane and can deliver locally if needed
• $900 neg.

If you are interested or know someone who is please sing out or direct them over here. I'd love you to cross post on your blog for other local interested 'housies' so please feel free. I know that these were many thousands of dollars new so whoever gets them will get a bargain.