On Sunday I decided to pull out all stops and finish unpacking the downstairs rumpus room, aka my sewing room… Now the room is renovated it feels delicious to visit, unlike the cold damp basement type room it was when we first purchased the property! Oh how nice it is to have all my things […]
Archives for August 2013
Home Sweet Home…
What a difference a week makes!!! This time last week we moved into our new house and after previously spending hours upon hours here working but not living, it felt a bit surreal to actually be in.I guess it still feels quite surreal in that it’s really our house, but it is finally starting to feel […]
The Big Move…
Friday was our big moving day…The day we got to be reunited with all our things, after 3 months. First the truck had to make it up our long tree lined driveway… The driver did an amazing job!{Although to be perfectly honest I wish they had pruned more of the trees as they came up […]
Renovating Progress – Week 5
I just had to stop and do the maths because I seriously cannot believe I’ve been doing this crazy renovating thing for 5 weeks!It explains a lot really…This week has been hard if I’m honest. The hardest yet.I’m tired and sick.Then things started to go wrong, typically after we’d exhausted our budget…At that point I […]
The grim side of renovating…
It hasn’t always been plain sailing and glossy finishes in this here renovation land over the past month,and today was one of those grim days where things start to spiral downward fast… It started off so well –Today was the day work started on all the new flooring!Eeek, I was so excited! Due to an […]
Renovating Progress – Week 4
It’s really hard to believe that it has been a whole month since we picked up the keys to our new home!! This last week especially I have been so focused on the looming deadline and how many projects we still have to go on our giant to-do list, that it’s easy for me to […]
31/52…
Hannah: I love this photo of you stunning girl! You were in full party mode at your sisters birthday party and I had to ask you about 10 times to look at me so I could take a photo. I guess we can call it worth the nagging… Abbie: This was taken today during your first day […]
Happy Birthday Princess Abbie…
Happy Birthday Princess Abbie!!!For this week you turned 3… “What would you like to do for your birthday?” I asked you last week…“Ride on a horse” you answered… I have NO idea where you got that idea from but I thought “Well, why not” and tried to make it happen for you.So happen it did, […]