New Friend*

I have a new friend on the side bar there. Rock Indigo are a little Australian company selling sweet vintage inspired clothes.
If I were to have my pick I'd have this number for work.

 This number for play.

And this number for an evening out.

Fun & Games

Our friends just gave us this game! We are hooked! You have to make your own crossword basically, and race to be the first to use up all your letters. I love finding words in jumbled up letters (my super power is the 'Target' in the newspaper - yes that totally counts as a sup power!) and it's the kind of game where you have no idea who is going to win until the last minute.
Does anyone else play board games much? We play Mah Jong and scrabble in my house.

Oh and this isn't a sponsored post! I wish it was! Bananagram dudes - wanna send me ten of these games to giveaway??!

Flea market finds...

Excuse the not so great pictures... But finally I had some dress luck at an op shop around here. It's been all furniture and house things of late but the majority of dresses I own come from Oppy's so I was stoked to find this beauty for $5 in Chiltern on our mini getaway. The buttons are super cute and I love the pleated fabric.

And here is a picture of me with my boy at the aftermath exhibition wearing it!

Flea Market Finds

On our roaming around the Riverina we found some bargain-tastic bargains.

* Seven old school errm school chairs. Eight bucks a pop. Yup.


* Annnnd an orthopedic chair (lurking in the background of this photo) for husbandos PHD to be born on... figuratively speaking obviously.

This is written on my phone with a phone photo... Mmm only the best for you my dears!

Linking up with Her Library Adventures.

Flea Market Finds*

Last weekend we went to a 'tender'. We hadn't heard of it before but it's basically the Salvos doing a silent auction on all the really good stuff they hold back. You can put down whatever price you want and if yours is the highest you get it. We won 2 fowlers preserving kits, plus jars, lids, rubber bands and clips. A telescope and this sweet little cabinet! Mega Score! Now we are feeling a little bit more savvy about what things go for too and can't wait to get back and do it all again!

Ps. The iron and the medical tin are both flea market finds also..

More flea market finds over here.

Flea Market Finds*

These babies are from another trip to the same op shop as last week! I swear I can't leave there without something just slipping into my car!

First up: this little hair-pin legged table. Just what we needed for out the front, to place our drinks on when we're enjoying the morning or evening sky (see yesterday's pictures!)

And a mini rocking horse. Okay, so husband's eyebrows where seriously raised with this purchase. It's for our future child's room, which, yes I may already be decorating in my mind, don't judge me! No, the future child is very much on the horizon, no breath holding for big announcements. But look at it! It's sweet right?! And with both items coming in for an even ten bucks all together, what's wrong with any of that I ask?!

More flea market finds over here.

Flea Market Finds...

I told you this town was good. Sideboard $25, Wardrobe $70. They both need a little bit of love, but the sideboard is genuine 70's laminate (mmm!) and is exactly what I was looking for for the living room. If anyone has any fantastic ideas about how to make it looks a little less shabby lemme know! The wardrobe is for the guest room to store bedding, our winter coats and a little space for guests too. It has beautiful drawers inside and awesome bakelite handles. *love* Soon enough I'll show you them in situ, the guest room is getting a major overhaul this week (so far its been the I-dont-know-where-to-put-this-so-I'll-put-it-in-here room) and we are almost done getting rid of the bleurgh beige/brown/olive trims in the living room.


* More flea market finds over at Her Library Adventures.

Flea Market Finds*

Yeah baby! We picked this awesome sofa up from our local Salvos. It folds out flat and has storage underneath it. Its a "firm" sofa (husbando's preference), so I'm gonna be countering it with some super slouchy chairs at some point. I'm tossing up reupholstering it (baby blue? Grey?), but it's got a great Danish shape to it and hasn't worn very badly at all. We shall see how it looks in a new situ.


Playing along here.

My Creative Space...

Last weeks creations! The cloud for baby E and the fabric became a cushion for a lovely friends birthday. With left over felt this week I've made a little circle garland. And on the boil for today? New pillowcases. Yup. Will let you know how I go with that! Stay tuned!
Ps. Live in Sydney? Get to here for drool-a-licious fabric.

Linking up to here...

My Creative Space

More cloud mobiles are under way for lovely babies of lovely friends. Plus I have some other projects on the boil which are mostly just making our bedroom a mess at the moment (but how cute is that fabric!). I'll show more when they are nearer completion!

PS. I now have a recipe tab up the top there. See?! Click through! Enjoy!

More Creative Spaces over here.

Flea market finds

Decent Sydney op shops can be hard to come by. But I found a beauty in Drummoyne the other day when visiting my bro.

I scored a wicker laundry basket. I always wanted one of these but they can be pricey new. plus I'm all up for romanticising something as mundane as hanging out laundry.

And a sweet little toy for a kidlet. No kidlet in particular... but I just liked it. Its rainbow. It's wooden and I can't wait to get my hands on some marbles and watch them twirl down, down, down.


More flea market finds over at Her Library Adventures...

My creative space...

 

Is it cheating if its over 15 years old? Our dear family friend (and awesome artist), Jules scanned this in to her computer and sent it to me the other day! She had kept it all these years because clearly even at the age of 10 I was completely adorable! Ha! Have to confess my drawing skills havn't improved much since then... Though I am now quite good at drawing feet... yup, there's a Random Fact of the Day about me for you. You are SO welcome.

More creative spaces over here...

Weekend...

On the weekend, in between work, we squeezed in time to build a tent out of bedding in our room and watch Some Like It hot, whilst eating frozen yogurt (to keep cool from all that Marilyn action). Needless to say it was great...

{Making a gif}

Flea market finds

I forgot to mention this sweet little guy I found at an oppie a while back. I love pink and black as a colour combination and I have a small growing collection of milk jugs now.


More flea market finds over here.


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My creative space...

 

I had some white waxed straws left over from a birthday party and on a whim decided to see i could dip dye them. It worked pretty well I think.

Tutorial:

Give Away Winner!

And the winner is....

Excuse the lameo phone picture! And Congratulations to WidetLucy, who has the lovely blog 'My guide to surviving and enjoying lifes mundane'.
Thank you all so much for entering, and for following along!
*s*

Mantelpiece Monday

Our living room mantelpiece gets a revamp whenever I spend much time in there (which isn't heaps to be frank) I'm hardly ever satisfied with it. I'm inspired by Estelle to try and mix things up a little more now. We have a mantel in the kitchen too...
Here we have our houseplant called Godfrey, a succulent with a party umbrella stuck in its pot (left over from my Mexican party I think), a twig wrapped in colourful thread (a project of mine inspired by seeing it somewhere and going; I could do that), my housemates bunch of flowers for her birthday, the mirror I found at the op shop, my giraffe from South Africa, a tin monkey (contributed by another housemate) and a wooden box with an art piece inside it (a housemate art school project).

Join in with Mantelpiece Monday over at Fortune Favours.

Liebster

Aww I've been handed a Liebster blog award by the superb Estelle over at Curbside style, which is just dandy, because really, I'm incapable of thinking of any blog posts for myself this week, and Liebster is German for awesome.

"The LBA award aims to spread the word about great blogs with less than 300 followers. The idea is too nominate other blogs that you love that meet the criteria and hopefully everyone gets a few new followers along the way."
*On a side note: Does anyone remember LBA the computer game - little big adventure? My little bro was really into it... I was more of a sim city girl myself... now I know I'm far too OCD to get myself into computer games, it wouldn't be good* 

Okay here are my nominations! 
Delightful: Regularly and consistently posts the prettiest things to her blog. It's inspiration galore!

The Letters I wish I'd written: Is pretty much an all time fave for me. Wonderful funny, cryptic, thought provoking letters - which always make me go 'I wish I'd written that...' 

Home Made Rainbows: Leanne has the most amazing life.... well what she shares of it makes me green with envy and green with hope that my garden might one day be as abundant as hers! 


Go check 'em out my pretties - plus there are heaps of other gold that I love reading in the side bar just over there...

PS. Thank you so much for all your sympathy and well wishes - it's all rather itchy and scabby over my end at the moment (TMI?) but I'll be back on my bike in a few weeks I reckon. *s*

In pictures...

The three days I had off over Christmas were just lovely.
There was eating and drinking aplenty, water volleyball, a pool comp, beautiful sunsets, fairy lights, walks, brown paper packages tied up with string, a lot of tea, a lot of washing up, lots of family.
The 4th picture is of a branch I tied above the big outdoor dining table and decorated with a few Christmassy touches.

Confessions...

 Inspired by Celia... I thought i too would come to the confessional.


* I used to steal money from the bank in monolpoly alllll the time

* My little brother remembers the boys I dated better than I do..

* I have eaten a whole large bag of sweetened popcorn for dinner twice now.

* I hate splitting bills at restaurants. I always feel like I get ripped off because I'm a vegetarian.

* Oh, and, I do feel superior for being a vegetarian. Sorry.

* I used to sneak my housemates cashew nuts (sorry), but now (in a different share house) that I've had my food sneaked I would never do it again.

* If you leave marks in the loo, I will scrub them away. And be annoyed about it.

* My feet smell.

* I tidy other peoples houses when I'm visiting. 

Come on then... 'fess up...

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