Friday, July 20, 2012

A week on the farm...

Back to school and the real world this week. So that being said I spent alot of the time doing alot of this....



and this....



ALOT of this....



a fair bit of this....



a ridiculous amount of time doing this.....


(that's my very feeble attempt of trying to make the washing look more attractive. Let's look at this instead)....

                                                                               
                                          Shabby Chic Interiors                                                                  
   Mmmm much nicer.

Back to the real (mundane?!) world....actually don't mind doing this....


and always have to find time for this!.....


and at the end of the week most definately this.....

                                                                               
                                                                                
                                                                                 
Probably should've titled this post 'a week of my feet'?
I do actually have a head....

Well, half of one....                                                                                 

Happy weekend!

                          Janelle  xx


                     
                                                                                 

                                                                               
                                                                                 
                                                                                  

Eyes...

Photoaday Challenge

Eyes...


Love these.

                                 Janelle xx
                                                                                   

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Day 19...

Photoaday Challenge

Our pet...


He's naughty but we love him.

                           Janelle  xx
                                                                                  

Projects...

My mind is a big fat jumble of ideas and inspirations for projects at the moment. Sometimes that can be so overwhelming (and exciting!) that it can be difficult to know where to start. And what to actually get finished!

                                                                                
At the moment I'm on a mission to get the shelves I've started painting finished and hung up in the kitchen. And then of course there will be the big decisions like what to sit on the shelves and then maybe I need to go hunting for some new/old treasures to add to them?!

                                                                               
I also have a benchseat, the odd bedroom, and bathroom to paint, a couch I'd love to recover (no real idea how to go about that one but how hard can it be?!!?) a table to strip back and yep, paint, a few picture frames to deal with,a couple of lampshades to recover, and did I mention we're moving one of the girls into a different bedroom?

                                                                                
                                                                               
I'm also craving colour lately (symptom of mid-winter?!) so was very excited to find these gorgeous fabric bundles in a local craft shop.



  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
I'm thinking these would make great cushion covers. I am certainly not suffering from a shortage of cushions (?!) but for a quick, easy, and cheap shot of colour I think a few cushions thrown about are hard to beat.

                                                                                

I won't bother mentioning the 2 desks to be sanded, craft area to organize, hallway to, well, do something with, decks to be dealt with, oh! and that then leads on to the garden.......

                                                                                                                                                              
Hmmmm......

                                   Janelle  xx

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

In the bathroom....

I wasted alot of time in the bathroom yesterday....



Decided to take a quick snap of these pretties sitting on the bench...

      

And apparently got a little carried away...



These two roses were about the last ones left in the garden so I'm making the most of them!...



Pretty yes?.....




Practical side of the bathroom....



A favourite chair.....

                                                                               
                                                                             
And one more of those roses....



to make the most of them!.....


                                         Janelle  xx
                                                                                
                                                                               
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                      
                                                                               

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Day 17...

Photoaday Challenge

My addiction...


Some may say problem?!?...
I just seem to collect frames. I'm sure they'll get used and hung one day...

          Janelle  xx                                                                                  

Monday, July 16, 2012

Pretty and practical...

Just a quick post today about how I went into town to buy boring things like groceries to feed my family and ended up buying a tea towel which also sounds rather boring...


Except I'm really very excited about it!...



Yep, excited about a tea towel...

                                                                                
              
It's a linen look cotton so has a nice raw look, and has measuring conversions written on it so is super practical too!!

                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                 
I'm thinking I won't actually use it to dry any dishes but will pop it in a white frame and hang it up in the kitchen. Possibly here to replace the red sign...

                                                                                


  Which would mean no more frantic searching through recipe books midway through cooking to look up how to convert a measurement. I can just take a quick glance at my mantle and be so much wiser!?! Or, and most likely,  it can just sit there and look pretty.

           
So there's my exciting morning...will post some pics once I have her framed and hung...



                    Janelle  xx