To nap or not to nap…that is the big question of the day around here…
Miss Lil has reached that awkward stage where she can go without a day nap most of the time, but often ends up in a foul mood by the day or sometimes accidentally falls asleep on the couch like this.
Most days she will still have a sleep but means that she won’t go straight to sleep at night time. Oh, what to do?
(and YAY! I finally figured out how to make my photos BIG in blogger. Thanks Chels for the advice…now I’ve just got to work out how to get my little grey birdies back next to the header! Anyone know how to do it??)
Now I really want to go through my blog and make my old pictures bigger too! Haha – now that would just be a waste of time…or would it?
So my plans yesterday to clean the whole house and take some decent pics didn’t work. I think children are programmed to make mess faster than a mother can clean!
Not to worry, I think I need to focus on a one-room-at-a-time goal!! I did get some pics of the bathroom though. My indoor photos are DODGY. I don’t really know what I am doing with my camera indoors, the bathroom is especially tricky for me. To flash or not to flash? (I’m talking about my camera here, people!)
Whatever, these will have to do! I played around with colours and exposure and am not sure I did them much good!
The tiled floor areas throughout the whole house are tiled using big 600mm x 600mm polished porcelain tiles. Out of the whole house the tiles were the hardest thing for me to get my head around. We spent 5 Saturdays in a row tile shopping! I am very happy with our choices though. The polished porcelain tiles are pretty swish-looking and I love the light-reflection they give off.
Due to budget constraints we had to choose between one bathroom and a studio or two bathrooms and no studio. The studio won! Another bathroom would be handy, but not really necessary with such a young family. Plus it means less for me to clean! And we are all REALLY loving the combined sewing/playroom.
These mosaic tiles are the same as in the kitchen splash back – really glad we decided to use them because they are bright and funky and give the house a bit of a modern-retro feel!
This project happened about a month ago and I forgot to post about it!
Our dining chairs were covered with a navy blue velvet-y fabric. They actually weren’t too bad except navy blue isn’t my colour. And kids + fabric-covered dining chairs = food mushed into the fabric and too hard to keep clean.
Solution? OILCLOTH!!
Having had no previous experience with oilcloth, I didn’t really have a clue what I was buying but hoped that it would work!
Here is one of the chairs before: We decided at 10pm one Saturday evening to cover the chairs, hence no time for a decent photo!
And the finished chair:
Thee oilcloth was really easy to work with. It was a lot thinner than I had expected. I bought a cheapo staple gun at the hardware store and it worked fine. The only problem was that the oilcloth has no stretch so it was tricky to get the corners perfectly smooth and we had to resort to a bit of folding and tucking instead.
Its sad, but I get a little excited when the kids drop messy food onto the chairs now because they are SO easy to wipe clean!
We decided to go with the red oilcloth to match some features in the new kitchen. Oh yeah, I still haven’t blogged indoor photos of the house yet! I’m about to go on a cleaning spree now and hopefully it will stay clean enough to take some pics!!
SUPPLIES: Paradise Lace Oilcloth in Red purchased from here.
Hello INTERNET! We have been internet-less at home for two weeks. At first it was great and then I missed it and then I realised how much stuff I get done when I don’t waste my time online and thought it was a blessing and then we got connected again last night and I am excited to do a bit of blog-catching-up and not so excited to pay some bills!
(that was a really long sentence, huh?)
So, the move went amazingly well. We had some wonderful helpers and have settled into our new home. The kids LOVE LOVE LOVE it. I asked Oscar if he liked this house or our old one better and he said this one because it is more fun to play with Lilsy here 🙂 The space is much better, it isn’t a great deal bigger, but much better design. The deck is AWESOME! Still to finish the seats and screens (hopefully in the next couple of weeks) but the floor is done and is already proving to be a brilliant place for the small-frys to run and ride and sit and swim. And I can see them from the loungeroom, kitchen, dining room AND studio.
The front door is still my favourite. The scarlet turned out a lot more pink than red but I’m happy with it. Jaron would have preferred more red, but perhaps that’s because he is a boy?!
And I am SO glad that we were bold and daring and followed through with the green internal wall because it is smashingly bright and wonderful.
So while all is fine and dandy with the house we have had a run of bad luck since moving in – hopefully not bad karma in the house? 🙁 One car has needed a new gearbox and the other had a huge rock thrown through the back windscreen, also smashing the glove box inside which has left us with no cars at all for the last 2 weeks. Our computer got a CD stuck in it and we need to replace the whole disc drive. My washing machine wouldn’t hook up and I had to get the repair man in to fix it. Jaron built a letterbox and the next day someone knocked a hole through it.
I keep telling myself to breathe and not think about the bad too much. When something good and exciting happens in our lives we are always greeted with a wave of not-so-good stuff (perhaps to keep us humble?) but we always get through it. Life goes on, the bills will get paid eventually and at the end of the day I’ve got a scarlet door (and that’s all that really matters, right?!)
(oh, and there are no indoor shots of the house yet because it is seriously MESSY! I finally met my deadline for the “big project” this morning {HORRAY} and have been spending all day and all night until 1:20am for the last week sewing, typing and ironing out the kinks. I am exhausted but so excited to have it behind me and get my life back again!)
