Another floors update!

I promise I will post something more exciting tomorrow (think handmade goodies and other pretty things), but I just had to show another progress photo of my floors because oh. my. goodness. I am in love. With my dodgy DIY timber floors. They are GORGEOUS. This photo was taken yesterday, showing the first coat of [...]

I feel like baking, but…

My husband is doing this: My living room still looks like this: My kitchen looks like this: And the whole house is covered in a layer of this: So maybe I’ll wait until next week to bake.

Daily Photo – Grass

Floorboards update

All the carpet is up, nails countersunk and staples removed! Our good friend Scott is bringing over is whizzbang sander today to show me how to use it, and I’ll give the floors a once over with that, then apply the stain. I’m hoping to be able to put one coat of estapol on today, [...]

Preparing to stain and polish our floorboards

As I’ve posted a few times before, the carpet in our house is a yukky pink/peach colour. It’s in really good condition, as I think the previous owners laid it in the 90′s, but I can’t stand it. I hate the colour, but I also just don’t like carpet very much. It holds so much [...]

Daily Photo – Ivy2

Daily Photo – Ivy Leaf

Daily Photo – Stars

Hamburgers for Dinner

We had giant hamburgers for dinner. Bun, tomato sauce, mustard, cheese, hot chilli meat pattie, more cheese, pineapple, beetroot, tomato, lettuce, avocado, bun. YUM. Giant! I had two. See my last post about always eating too much.

Statements for Wednesday

- I am now banned from shopping for the rest of the holidays – The mall is still far too busy to be enjoyable – I am definitely addicted to stationery products – Howard’s Storage is my favourite store for looking at things that are far too expensive and unnecessary (I still feel I need [...]