Sunday Snaps......

A few pics from our weekend......wanna take a peek??.....................

Fruit salad is always a winner in this house.....as are pretty thrifted crystal bowls.........
                                                                                 

Friday night's pizza thanks to the gorgeous Donna Hay........THE best and easiest pizza dough recipe ever........

My 9 yr old is still continuing her love of baking.......and I'm loving that sun I somehow managed to capture shining through our kitchen window........

Here's more......

A beauty salon popped up in our bathroom........see that glitter?.......it has spread ALL OVER the house.......lovely.......sparkly facials by appointment only........

And finally....then there were 2.........after seeing how lovely the lavender looked on the deck I decided we needed some for outside the lounge french doors as well as the at the front door........a pot hunt will be on this week.......

Hope you're enjoying your Sunday.......


                                        Janelle  xx
                                                                                 

                                                                              
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                 
                                                                                 
                                                                                

Projects, purchases and pretties....

Let's go abit random today shall we, being Friday and all.......best start off with a pretty I think......

This mightn't be quite so pretty......me in my new white skinnies......and still loving my 'hot spring' nail polish.......

 
More feet......of the school holiday variety........can you guess which ones belong to the male???........

                                                                                                                                                               
 I found this yummy lavender at the supermarket whilst doing the grocery shop........couldn't leave that there......I'm planning on plopping it in a pot (of which I'm yet to find) and sitting at the front door......hoping there will be enough sun for it there.......our front door area is really rather blah and boring so I'm trying to spruce it up abit.........

And here's another knitting project I have FINISHED.....yay!!.......this was all knitted in one piece (as in there was no 2 fronts and a back) on a circular needle......actually turned out ok I think........

And that's about it from me this Friday.......I'm off to light a fire......of the legal kind......a few cold days in store for us apparently.......

Happy Weekend.........

                                            
                                            Janelle  xx
                                                                                  

                                                                                
                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Spring Gardening...

I've been spending abit of time in the garden this week digging new garden beds and planting pretty things.....well at least I hope they'll grow into pretty things......

As we built our house only 5 years ago, in what was pretty much a bare paddock, we really had to start from scratch with the garden.... which meant trees, fences, paths,garden beds, the works.....

I am not the most patient person in the world but I love the old fashioned gardens with lots of huge old trees and masses of flowers etc so this has been a bit of a lesson in both patience and gardening skills for me.....I am slowly learning a little about gardening......still working on that patience thing tho.....

It is coming together tho.....sloooooowly.......

Enjoy your day.......


                                     Janelle  xx
                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                

3 Little Daisies.......

I love these 3 little daisies......

I never use to be the biggest fan of the old daisy bush......bit common.....bit stinky even?.......

however....I am definately now appreciating the beauty of these little.......

beauties.......

these ones are actually from my mum's garden....which is looking so lovely and colourful at the moment...but I do have a spot in my garden picked out to plant a cutting, or 6......another great thing about the good old dais.....sooo easy to grow!.......

I love how they look so simple and pretty here on the (rather bare looking but that's a whole other story) mantle.......

but they are now living here on the kitchen shelves......for now......

so I'm now off out to the garden.....I have dug (and dug... and dug) a new garden bed which is now awaiting
lots of pretty colour to be planted in it. Any suggestions for pretty, easy-to-grow-and-tough-as-nails flowers to pop in most appreciated!!.......enjoy your day........

                                  Janelle  xx

                                                                                  
                                                                                  
                                                                                 
                                                                                
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                                

A White Bench......

A few weeks ago I did a post about an old orangey not-very-attractive-but-boy-you-sure-have-lots-of-potential bench seat that I was about to conquer with loads of undercoat and white paint......well here she is.........

not bad?........................

I'm really pleased with how it's finished up......at first I wasn't sure of the exact finish I was aiming for but once I started slapping that white paint on I could see the transformation happening in front of my eyes....so much cleaner and brighter......

and white!......mmmmm.......I decided to leave the remaining peeling varnish that was on the bench and just paint over it. Partly due to wanting some character left on it and partly due to plain impatience and laziness.....

I was also tossing up the idea of giving her a little sanding and shabbying up but for the moment I'm happy with her just the way she is....all shiny and new....well...sort of.

                                                                               
                                                                              
   I'm off to play with my children....

 And possibly find something else to paint......

                        
                                                   Janelle  xx
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                 
                                                                                 

Short and sweet.......

Just a few random pics today.....

some pretty colours in the hallway.....

weekend 'project'......a few hooks for the kitchen shelves........

some morning exercise followed by some morning tea.......see that black fluffy tail?......

2 seconds later.......

Have a great week........


                                            Janelle  xx
                                                                                 
                                                                               


                                                                                
                                                                           
                         
                                                                                

                                                   

Sunday Evening......

We're (actually that would be ME) enjoying that special feeling this Sunday evening of knowing it's the beginning of 2 weeks school holidays......

                                                                               

... which of course really means no rushing (usually very loudly) out the door early tomorrow morning, no rushing (again, usually very loudly) to after school activities and, my personal favourite, NO SCHOOL LUNCHES to prepare!!! How can making a few sandwiches and pouring water into a couple of drink bottles seem soooooo much like hardwork?!!??........skip to unrelated pic of breakfast this morning......made, and beautifully styled, exclusively by my two daughters......

                                                                                 

the beginnings of a few new projects......

                                                                                

which really only got about as far as this before other activities beckoned.......like baking.........

and some frenzied re-arranging and throwing out which I'll share the results of this week spring cleaning.......

Happy Sunday With No School Run Tomorrow Evening............


                                        Janelle  xx                 
                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                              

Outside Colours......

It's been a really lovely sunny spring day here today......

which is always just too tempting not to bring out the camera and snap away at the gorgeous colours....pinks.....

                                                                                  
and blues.......

    
I seem to have an obsession with the sky at the moment.....and is it any wonder really??......

                                                                                   
so pretty.......
            

                                                                                                                                                                  
  and things aren't so bad on the ground either........

well hello there......

I'm sorry, am I boring you??......

ok, let's call it a day then shall we.......

Happy weekend to you.......


                                   Janelle  xx
                                                                                
                                                                              
                                                                                
                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                 

Happy Bargains......

It's friday today, yay!!! Let's round the week off with some good old fashioned bargains yes??........like these grey skinnies and lovely stripe floor rug......both from target.....both on sale.......small child not on sale......

Some new artwork for the walls.....I'm thinking this will go nicely in our still-in-progress craft corner.....which would also be called our dining room table.......I purposely left the price sticker on for the photo....$19.95......score!.......

Let's go back to Target now shall we.......I found this very pretty cushion just sort of shoved amongst a heap of others with no pricetag on it.......when the cashier rang it up it went through for $6.......I love the colour.....price not bad either........

And lastly I found these cute bright tins that should sit nicely on my white 'office' shelves......also known as the corner in our lounge room.......

Whilst I do believe it pays to fork out the bigger $$ for alot of the bigger items for the home I think it goes to show that we don't necessarily have to spend much at all to bring a bit of colour and fun to freshen things up abit. Anybody else found any happy bargains of late?  I'm now off to freshen up a few more things!....

Happy Friday......

                                    Janelle  xx