Photo Challenge - Day 16

"Technology"

We pass these satellite dishes on our way to and from school.  It is a lovely shortcut to school as we pass horses in paddocks and often have to slow down or stop to allow chickens and ducks to pass.  At one point we drive across a creek.  If there has been heavy rainfall the road is often closed to traffic.  Situated amongst all this rural charm are these enormous satellite dishes.  The boys are fascinated by them and regularly scan the sky as we drive past, vainly searching for the space shuttle!

Photo Challenge - Day 15

"Silhouette"

The (Baby) Pirate who would be King... of his blankie!

The renovation continues...

Behold the new front deck:

Merbau boards au naturel (currently anyway!)

Looking down onto the deck from the driveway.

We also have a new back deck, with the same divine roof panelling as the front deck, minus the exposed eaves for a bit of variety.

Please admire the balustrading, many hours of research went into it!

We recycled some of the original merbau boards on a little feature screen along the eastern boundary. 

Steps down to the back garden.  At the top of the steps is the laundry door, on the left are the french doors into the new playroom.   Next step is to pick up a paintbrush, which may lead to another possible new career path.  I nearly fainted when I read the quote for the painting.  So, we shall be doing it ourselves thank you very much!  Wish me luck everyone!

Thank you Leah!

I was thrilled to win a giveaway recently on Leah's blog The Inside Story.  It is one of my absolute favourite blogs.  Full of stunning and very inspiring images. Leah also lives in one of my favourite places in the world.  Lucky thing!

Thank you so much Leah for such a lovely gift.  I am thrilled with the bag and the sweet little storage box and they will be well loved.

Photo Challenge - Day 14

"Eyes"

This weekend I painted the front door gloss black.  It looks amazing!  I helped husband put the gyprock walls and ceiling into the new living/dining room.  It looks ok!  Once the plasterer has been I am sure it will look amazing too.  Back breaking work though and why I am running so far behind with the photo challenge!

I am also considering re-qualifying as a plumber.  They are obviously making way too much money.  Any pumbers out there?

Photo Challenge - Day 13

"Yourself with thirteen things"

Technically I am in the photo... there is a photo of me pregnant with the Captain in amongst those items!  All the items that I have chosen are cherished:

1. My bed (it somehow manages to look prisitne amongst the chaos of renovating!)

2.  Tolix stool (if only it was vintage... one day, some day I will have a set of vintage Tolix chairs and stools)

3. Fresh flowers in jam jars (they make me happy, look beautiful and remind me of my wedding day).

4. & 5.  I collect vintage children's books and I have way too many of these old Enid Blytons. Yes, I have some complete collections.  I started collecting them as a small child.

6.  See there I am... photo taken the day before I had The Captain.   Edited to keep things decent.

7.  iPad.  I used to loathe it, it's growing on me.

8. Current favourite sunglasses.  Husband gives me such a hard time about them, he reckons I am trying to relive my youth.  I asked him what he would like to do for his 50th.

9. My watch.  My father gave it to my mother for her 21st birthday, they in turn gave it to me.  It is 43 years old, doesn't need a battery and is still going strong. 

10. Frog.  Picked him up in a tiny little gallery outside Canberra when I was at university.  He has lived on the kitchen window sill in every house I have lived in over the past 18 years.  He even survived a break in.

11. & 12.The outfits the boys wore home from hospital. 

13.  A drawing the Captain did when he had just turned four.  It is of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, drawn from a photo.

Photo Challenge - Day 12

It has been raining in Sydney for days now.  The chance of my capturing a sunset on the camera is slim...  I had to improvise with this photo.  Taken on this night!

And a huge thank you to Julia for making my lovely new header!  I would never have been able to do it despite having a few people try and explain it to me!  Thanks Julia!