A Puffing Billy Outing

Yesterday, after a really horrid week of sickness, we took the kids on a morning out, on Puffing Billy. It was a chilly morning, but the sun was shining beautifully and very brightly. Here are a few snaps from our day out...

The famous Selby trestle bridge..
Alannah.. Jude..

Emerald Lake Park, looking so peaceful and pretty..

The Puffing Billy Train..

Rohan and Jude, both as excited as each other..lol...

Alannah and me, snuggling up against the cool wind..

House Update - Nearly there

So, we're just up to re-cladding the exterior of the only two remaining original rooms, which will be the laundry and our bedroom. The laundry got the do-over on the weekend, including removal of the existing window, and installation of the new one.

The inside of our current bathroom, with the window removed..

The current look of our bathroom/laundry with the new window in. Different..hey? lol

And the wall pretty much finished except for some filling and painting.

Our bedroom has been partially re-clad, the eaves are being finished off tonight, and the electrical rough-in is taking place this week too. Always something to get done around here, at the moment.

My June 123 Blog Entry

Here's my take on this month's challenge over at the 1,2,3 Challenge Blog.

This month the key componets were the use of fabric (the bird cages - Q tea kit), buttons (at least six) and hand-stitching (details on the bird cages). I had fun using bright colours with these autumn photos, and I love these photos of Danielle and Ash that I took in May.

New Sketch Blog

Check it out here ...

Scrapability Sketches

The sweet and lovely Becky Mitchell is running this blog, and the June sketch is up now. Complete it by the 28th June, and you go into the running for a guest Creative Team member spot - how cool!

Why not give it a go?

xx

House Update - Nearly Locked Up - Yay!

So, even since I took these photos on Saturday, more work has happened and now the super large window has been installed and the weatherboards put up around it, which means we are no longer living in just a framework - woo hoo! Just in time for the really cold weather too.

Will head down the hill and take another photo of the new large window soon, and update in the next week.

But for now, here are some pictures of our house, which I think is coming along very nicely :-)

And, just for a laugh, here is the inside of the house, and as you can see, my 'kitchen' area..lol..just like camping! And the big window was sitting here while I painted it, and is now in the space pictured next picture down.

Ok, so I really need to do something creative to share, but I just actually haven't done anything - haven't had the time nor motivation with the things going on with the house - there seems to be always something to paint (which is me - painter-girl :-P). Would love to give the 123 Blog challenge a go, so we'll see what happens this week.

Oh, and Alannah has another wobbly tooth.

Something Spiffy

This is our new front door handle/lock - I finally won something on ebay and it's pretty spiffy. It uses fingerprints to open the door instead of a key - seems kinda space-aged to me but pretty cool. Jude thinks it's very special..lol...

The house should be very near lock up by the end of the weekend - yay! Will have pictures to show once the hill dries up a bit - at the moment it's a tad muddy from this week's rain. But it is looking really good, and I can't wait to have all our walls up. It's nearly time for the fun stuff to start :-P

Some Walls

A small update on the house. Quite a few walls went up over the weekend, but not all unfortunately - due to rain and having to re-assemble scaffolding which is time consuming.

Here are a few pics. I have more to take..but again, the rain is getting in the way of that :-P

This is the back of the house, with a rumpus room window in..

Side wall - rumpus room..

Front wall...

This is the right side wall, view from the road. These windows are the bathroom & ensuite windows...

Our Funny Two

Just a quick photo share of our two little monkeys - Jude struggled to stop making faces, while Lana was all smiles..

An Alannah Milestone

Ok, so it's not a fantastic photo. Poor Lana has a cold so she's a bit sore around the nose, but the big news is ....she lost her first tooth yesterday! She was very excited but then a little unsettled - she wasn't too sure about the feeling of the gap in her teeth, and how to eat normally too. But today she's completely fine with it, and even excited again - she can't wait to tell Mrs B at school on Tuesday..lol.

Paul Dempsey Gig

These photos are courtesy of the Triple M website/photographer from our night out, at Paul Dempsey's solo single release gig.

He did a great show, and we had a really good time. The support act was very talented too - Young Werther - except for a very 'blue' Martha Wainwright cover, we really enjoyed it.

It was very cool to get a photo of Roh and I together, as this is the first gig we've been to together since I was pregnant with Alannah, which funnily enough was a Something For Kate concert (of which Paul Dempsey is the lead singer). Although flash photos are never very flattering!

Finishing Off

So these two layouts I've had hanging around for weeks, and I finally got around to finish them off.

This first one is using Lily-Bee products (picked up from Kiti Q). Loved the colour combo used here, inspired by the products, and love how warm it looks.

This next one is really quite a bad quality image - I took the photo when it was nearly dark, but it tells the story of Jude's operation in photos. All the journaling is actually written on the back of the layout as there was a lot to record. This uses Crate Paper's Orbit range - so cute!

Not much scrapping actually happening at the moment. Due to other commitments, I had to pull out of the Arty Pants DT comp, as I just couldn't fit in the last challenge, but something positive has come out of my application for it, but I won't share that just yet ;-)

In house news, hopefully by the end of this long weekend, our house should be at lock-up stage, and I'll have a load of new photos to share. Have been trying to pick up a few things on ebay for the house, but haven't had much luck yet. Will keep trying :-P

Love this song!

So, Paul Dempsey, the lead singer of the band Something for Kate, has just finished making a solo album and this is his first single from that - and it is fantastic!



Roh is a huge fan of this guy, and lucky us - we are going to his sold out gig in Melbourne in a couple of weeks. Can't wait!

Hope you enjoy it!

P.S - This is not the real film clip, just a collaboration of snapshots that a fan has put together on you tube, but still a great song to listen to.

Ta Da.....Walls!

Well, 2 walls almost finished that is. But for us, two walls is fantastic!

Here's our front wall, with the kitchen bi-fold window. Love this window! Although now we think we will round the corners a little on the large sill, as Roh's dad whacked his head a beauty on one of the corners (thus the foam taped to the corners) and had to have 9 stitches put in. Not a great start to the day, but he's fine. And the sill is head height for kids, so not so safe.

Same front wall with weatherboards on, except for the top one as the electrical wiring has to be relocated before the weatherboard can be put up. The weatherboards have one coat of paint on it - I'm really liking our colour choice.

Roh working on the left hand side wall. We decided to do the gables in colourbond, in the matching colour of the weatherboards - for easier maintenance.

This is the same wall as above, the left hand side, but a view from the back corner of the house. Here you can see the dramatic difference between the old and the new.

I think the aim is to have the weatherboards and windows all up and in by the end of the Queen's Birthday long weekend which is only a couple of weeks away - yay!

Arty Pants DT Comp Layouts

So, I decided to enter the Arty Pants search, for new DT members, a couple of weeks ago. I like to have the challenges set so I actually do some scrapping, and here are the first two week's entries. The images are a bit dodgy as I left finishing off my layouts to just hours before deadline so had to photograph them inside, with unnatural light - really not great.

Week 1 : Was to be do a layout inspired by an ad out of an 'Inside Out' mag.

Week 2 : This was called a 'mixed bag' challenge. Had to use at least 2 pp's that AP stocks, at least 1 BW photo & 1 coloured, use 2 techniques and use 2 or more different embellishments.

Like I said, the images are a bit dodgy, particularly the 'Boys of Autumn' one, but I'm actually quite happy with how the layout turned out. Got some new thickers today (the green ones) so had fun using them.

Hope you had a good weekend!

A Funky Find

Bought these today for one of our bathroom doors, probably the one nearest the living areas. I think they are very funky and I found them via the Decor8 blog. They are from an esty store, Mooza Designs, which is based in Sydney. Nice to support an australian designer, and I love them!

House Update

Ok, so roof's on, gables are nearly finished, windows are here but not yet in (except for the bi-fold window - it's in, but not painted), weatherboards have arrived, but again not up. Roh has an RDO tomorrow, so am hoping some wall goes up over the weekend. All is good - al fresco dining is a daily event..lol...and possum invaders are also a regular evening adventure - much to the frustration of Roh, and the delight of the kids!

Here are a few shots, from the last few weeks :



From the back of the house :

I've also ordered this decal for our front door. I've ordered it in black, and I think I'm just going to use the 'welcome' part of it. I like the friendly font. It's from an etsy shop called 'Vinylfruit'.

I also want to get a real graphic, clean-lined font sticker for our house number, which I plan to put above this 'welcome' note on our front door - just got to convince Roh :-P

Actually might have some scrapping to share next update, as had a fun, girly, scrap night last weekend and actually got some scrapping done, for a change (I usually just shuffle paper and drink champagne..lol).

Enjoy your day!

Growing Up

These are fairly recent photos taken by DQ of my two. Both growing too fast for my liking!

Our S.A. trip

Ok, so I'm pretty slack with the updating. Here are a few photos from our trip to S.A over Easter.
On Easter Friday we headed out for the day with Dad and Mum to Victor Harbour & Granite Island. They had the little fairground going so the kids got spoilt by their grandparents and went on a few rides and sideshows.
Jude picked the fishing.. While Lana went with the clowns...

They both went on this car/train thingy, with Jude sitting in the front, steering away...

while Lana reminds me of a queen, sitting in the back of an open car, waving...lol....

Then they both went in this car ride together, with Lana doing the steering, and doing it really well too - no crashes!

After Victor Harbour, Dad drove us to the Murray Mouth for a spot of fishing, as Jude had been asking. And that lasted all of about....hmm....10 minutes before Jude had had enough...lol..

Beautiful day though, and lovely spot. The kids had a ball getting wet.

The kids also had their first experience of wearing 3D glasses - funny things - while watching "Journey to the Centre of the Earth"

So we did get up to some other things. I have some strawberry picking photos to edit and upload. We also did lots of things that weren't photographed, and one thing where I wanted to photograph but my camera battery died as I went to take the first photo - terrible!

But definitely have a few photos to scrap, just have to find some space to :-P

Will be back with some more photos soon - lots to share - house, swimming, SA photos..

K xx