Selective pictures of my house...

Its the school holidays so my house is, of course, in a huge mess...

So I'm trying to turn a blind eye to the chaos and pick out the nice bits instead!

My kitchen table

On my kitchen table today:

57 kiwi fruit and some huge apples...

A new Auskick footie!

A collection of pinch pots waiting to be decorated.

An up-cycled half finished little table..

Around here...

Around here....

To the beach! It's still warm enough for a swim- personally I'm hanging out for a bit of Winter...

Feet up in my favourite spot. Might need to tidy the bookcase.

I sanded and re-covered the second chair - only took six months or so to get round to it..

Our hibiscus is still flowering like mad, this pic doesn't capture the true startling pink of the flowers!

Some locals picked on a walk

A nice cup of tea - what I'm planning to do right now :)

Blogging from the garden

Sitting out in the garden to catch a breeze - summer is definitely still on... 

And it hasn't rained for nearly 100 days. 

Imagine!

Noughts and crosses on the watertank...

Pecan Pie - I can't eat a Pecan Pie without thinking of Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally!

A sketch for a project I'm working on for Crab Fest ( yes, the festival of the crab) this weekend coming...

The Less Ugly House!

So sometimes it's a good idea to go away for three weeks and leave your husband at home with a list of jobs.
Because sometimes he will surprise you by doing all of the 'suggested' jobs!

Here is a (very much) Before photo of The Ugly House.

This is the estate agent's photo that really sold the house to us - it's gorgeous isn't it?

Now, this is the house that we came home to last week... ready?

It's still not the prettiest house but I am so happy! 
Now I can pull in the driveway without checking that no-one's looking.
Our over the road neighbours have been over several times to congratulate Mark on adding thousands to the value of their house...

Now I've got a lot of planting to do to fill up those flowerbeds.

Around here...

My flegeling Peanuts mug collection!

A grumpy face in the kitchen...

 A paper pompom I borrowed for research purposes and which is now hanging above my desk...

The new bumper edition of Frankie...

Stripes...

The balcony beckons!

Australian Advent Calendar Day 7 and 8

A teeny tiny bauble hanging by our stairs... 

(I love how big our house looks in this photo - it isn't really!)

And some ginormous baubles hanging in a fig tree in Freo...

Around here...

Spring is in the air and the mozzies are biting already...

Some bits and bobs at home -

Squally

Wet and windy here...

Sticker frenzy..

Air drying clay village..

A glimpse of blue.

Prevaricating...

Mark and I seemed to wake up with the same idea today. To put off the important but boring jobs by appearing to be busy all day doing something else...

It worked well.

Instead of flattening the garden and covering over our new septic tank lids (exciting..), Mark tidied his shed.

It took all day and he's now out there in the dark fitting a new light. (He's jealous of our next door neighbour's Man Cave.)

Instead of cleaning the carpet and hanging out yet more washing, I....decorated the toilet window.

Yes, it really needed doing.

Here is the Before - perspex with handy ventilation holes to let the mozzies in to bite you whilst sat on the loo in the middle of the night.

One roll of white contact paper later...

Here is the After:

Yes - it look so long to do it was dark outside when I finished.

The outside view is even better than the inside! Pity no-one will see it apart from our resident frogs.

Job done. My sense of satisfaction is marred slightly by the pile of washing still in the machine....

Today....

Today I finished our blackboard wall - 

I'm thinking about painting...

And reading this - a must-read for any Salinger fans out there.