Its too darn hot

Sitting on the back step, it's 9.45, the kids are both asleep finally, got a shandy, the mossie coil is working, the stars are out - well for Sydney anyway, and I've got a swat in hand for swatting away the giant flying cockroaches.

Thought I'd share some pics of our living area.  It's pretty messy most of the time, I need to resign myself to that fact.  if I wait for it to be perfect, it never will be and you'll never see it.

These four pics are all the one big room.  It's great room, lots of light, good cross ventilation and 3 different areas to hang out.  The brown couch, the table and there's a couch at the end of the dining table you can just see the corner of.  We love it!  It just needs to be more organised!

We've also started to paint the back fence (see last post) three panels down - 6 large and 4 small to go.   Blue is the new colour, in case you're wondering

they call me harry...half job harry

After making yet another list of unfinished jobs, I was determined to finish something this week.

I started stripping the back door about 3 weeks ago, bought the paint after 3 attempts - Bunnings on a good day is bad enough, don't try it between Christmas and New Year, then looked at it every day until it started getting to me.  So on Tuesday I finished stripping it with my trusty SPEEDHEATER 1100, then sanded and undercoated.

Unfortunately I don't have a pic of the original, needless to say it was filthy, covered in graffiti and peeling, with about 10 coats of paint.

This pic makes it look like Slade did all the work, but he was just putting the very last piece of beading in around the glass and stealing all my glory.

And then I resigned myself to it being another 3 weeks before I could paint the top coats.  I bought a book on Thursday called "What to do about everything" - finally someone bossier than me!  She advises to make a timetable of your day and prioritise - she goes on for a few pages about how to actually do that, I won't bore you.  Anyway, I got bored with it and thought - instead of reading about making time to do the things you really want to do, just do it! So I got out my paintbrush and went for it.  It's a colour that makes me smile every time I see it.  And my little helper loves it too. - Taubmans - Opulence - had to buy 2 litres, so i'll probably have to use it in a few other places too.

A long long time ago, I can still remember when...

Hmmm, sorry for the slackness.  It's been about a month since my last post and not a lot has happened.

We've been slowly plodding away and trying for some peace amidst the chaos.  The kitchen fairy visited us for the second time, and although it's not all installed, our kitchen is becoming very usable. A huge thank you to our lovely Kitchen Fairy 1 & 2.

I made a blind from some fun Ikea fabric I've had hanging around for a few years.

We also have a new tap at the back door.