One Rose...

Here is the 1st ever rose from an Old Fashioned highly fragrant Rose that we planted about a year ago. We have been waiting and waiting for something to happen, and finally it did!

It is the most beautifully scented rose . 

I purposely made up reasons just to go outside and walk past it just so I could have a big inhale of the scent.

Evie pulling a funny face

Evie was wanting me to only photograph her and not the rose, so she covered it!

Lou x

My Princess and the pea...

In the lead up to Evie turning 3 it was time to finally close down the nursery for good and set up her bedroom. It was a bitter sweet milestone, as it means no more baby cuteness but also that our little baby has grown into a little girl and  that meant some fun for me designing her new room.

This was my inspiration picture of the sort of thing I had in mind, mainly the bed : ( ok, her actual room does not really look like this room at all, but you have to start somewhere)

Now, the challange as always was to acheive something pretty but on a budget.

This is what we created:

As this used to be the Beauty Room, I was really happy to leave the white paint and pretty green and pink wall paper and just work with those colours.

Her very own ensuite

Block out all memory from your mind the fact that she dressed herself in sneakers and socks with her dress. Lets just pretend that never happened.

Bed frame $39 from Ikea, I cut the head board off, sanded the base and spray painted it white

Bed Head $10 from a 2nd hand shop was cleaned, sanded then spray painted white

Bed Head ready for spraying.

The finished bed: Evie May loves her room!

Lou xo

A lovely High Tea...

One of my closest friends is having her 3rd baby.

Her Mother, Sister and family organized a lovely High Tea baby shower.

Kirsty, the gorgeous Mummy to be

A lovely afternoon was had by all. Kirsty and her family always put on a lovely "do"

Lou xo

Street Appeal...

Here is Evie "helping" us at the front gate. Amongst many other things on our TO DO list, one of them was to remove the dated paver strip on the footpath and replace it with something a bit more modern and appealing. I have looked for about a year for large, narrow rectangular grey pavers with no luck, so I cam up with an alternative. We have now installed 3 peices of timber instead and transpalted grass between them. This area was always very dry with no grass growing here. Now we are just trying to keep the grass alive in this hot weather so it can grow. I will show you some before and after shots of the area soon.

I am back to work on Monday after 3 very busy weeks off. It has gone too quick, I have had fun though and done so much, yet still have so much more I would have liked to do.

Lou x

Full circle

Photos are a bit dodge as they were taken with the phone

Its funny how things come full circle, when we bought the house 15 years ago , the shed had this basket ball hoop attached to it, as we had no thoughts of the kids at that time and we never used it so I asked hubby to take down the ugly orange thing. We re-discovered in the shed after cleaning it out.

Hubby and Toby as a project together, 

painted it grey and painted back board for it and have now attached in the very spot where it originally was

( just much better looking now of course) They have been playing basketballs most afternoons now!

Lou x

A 1950's Apricot Kitchen beauty

 Our house was built in the very late 1950's maybe 1959 or 1960 to be precise. When we bought it had the horrid lilac laminate kitchen which was already old and daggy however in good working order, but down stairs in the work room we found a treasure, it was the homes original kitchen. It has its original Bakelite handles and the doors are painted with a thick glossy apricot coloured enamel paint. Although we always guessed it was the homes original kitchen cabinets, it was confirmed when we gutted the lilac one to make way for our new white kithcen, we found traces of where the apricot one had been attached to the walls. 

The bench tops are made of ply wood and have been painted with a green paint effect to mimic the laminate/melamine bench tops of the day. We have enjoyed using the apricot kitchen as storage in the work room and I had planned to make it into a great cubby house kitchen one day it is too cool to not be used.

But sadly as part of my great clean out, we have decided to part with it and hope someone else will adopt it and love it like we have. 

It is for sale on Ebay at the moment, so we will see soon who its new parnets will be.

Lou x

A fresh start...

 Happy New Year. I can feel a vibe of exciting things to come for 2012. I am on holidays at the moment, enjoying being with my family and busy my continuing spring cleaning every room of the house, we have done a trip to the dump and have many bags for charity and we are still having fun selling stuff on eBay, making the entire house feel lighter. As always though time goes too quick when you are having fun and I have said several times this week to my husband and kids "why cant we just always be together like this?"

an Aggie in our front garden

Lou x

Red Petal Carpet...

Wishing you a very Happy Christmas. We are looking forward to spending time relaxing with family and friends. Thank you to all the wonderful true friends and family we have in our life.

The Poinciana is in full bloom at the moment

Right on time to add a beautiful layer of red confetti petals to the courtyard for Christmas.

Lou xo

Tiny Teddy

I went to a special friends baby shower and someone had made these adorable biscuits, how cute!

It was such a lovely party.

Lou x

Island Spice

I was given this "Island Spice" candle for my Birthday, which I have been burning and I am loving the smell so much. The gardenia is from Mum and Dads garden, which also smells divine!

Lou x

Christmas Colour,

I felt like a bit of a bright and cheery colour scheme this year. So I went for Yellow, Pink, Emerald Green and all shades of Blue. It's a change from my usual silver, gold, red  variations.

 The house is getting a bit of a bird theme at the moment, 

I have noticed I have lots of bird tree decorations as well. Without noticing or purposely doing it, I must have collected many bird decorations over the last few years.

Lou x

Just a drop please...

Whenever we would refill my Nans drinking glass or tea cup she would ask for "just a drop please". Here are some more photos from The Tiny Party. Thank you to Liam for helping to keep the "just a drop" drinks filled!

Lou x