Monday, July 23, 2012

Weekend...

  A few quick snaps from our weekend....

                                                                                 
                                                                                
 nothing very extraordinary really but satisfying and enjoyable all the same...

                                                                                

cleaned up our extremely small vegie garden so the kids could help me plant some new herbs etc we picked out together...

                                                                                
the plan being that when the plants grow (please please grow) they will then be so excited and enthusiastic about it all they will happily eat anything and everything put in front of them with said plants in.
Hmmmm....

                                                                               

I also popped some herbs in these little pots to put on a shelf in the kitchen. Not too sure if they'll actually grow inside but I love the look of potted herbs indoors not to mention the convenience of just reaching over the bench to pick some to throw in the dinner!!


And look what I found thrown out behind the shed (?!)....


I'd actually forgotten we had this birdcage. I'm thinking it may look nice with a lick of paint? Not sure what colour yet. Although look at that gorgeous rust!...

                                                                                
                                                                                  
More baking. Recipe to share soon. I always TRY to get some baking done on the weekend so the kids may have some sort of  food to eat in school lunches. Always good to feed ones children I suppose...

                                                                                

And we managed to get this very small but much thought about project done too. The two panes of glass either side of the front door seemed a lovely idea when we built the house and they do provide good light into the hallway...


                                                                               
But I didn't like the lack of privacy (even though we live in the country, I'm just abit nerdy like that?!) and looking at a cold black window at night so thought we'd give these curtains a try. They are just plain calico ones we used on the bedroom windows when we first moved in so it's costing us nothing to try. If they work out I'll replace these with some nicer ones...

      
And this pic I just like so am sticking it in here....

                                                                                                                                                        

Happy Monday.....

                            Janelle  xx

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Photoaday x 2

Photoaday Challenge

Day 21   9 0'clock....


Day 22    upside down....



                         Janelle xx
                                                                                
                                                                                 

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