Updates

We havent updated for ages as frankly we've been too busy. I have been painting the 3rd spare room frantically the two last sundays and to be honest havent got very far! I am going to attack it tommorow and hopefully that will be the end of it. The room was previously lilac with a darker purple wall. It so far has taken two coats and I still need atleast another. Desa spilled over about 2 litres of paint last saturday in his curious kitty ways, thankfully we still had the protective carpet down, it was just a big waste of money! I am painting it promised land white on three of the walls, windows and doors and then a true red on the previous purple wall. I went to a fantastic garage sale about 3 weeks ago and met a really nice family, they were selling their mothers things who was going into a nursing home, she had fantastic parker furniture which I told the family not to accept anything cheap for it. I managed to score for us at that sale, a vintage typewriter, a standing art deco lamp with beautiful white bulb, a jewellery box which is in the shape of standing up books, a globe and also a beautiful bed set which is being picked up tuesday. It consists of an art deco bed which has the side drawers built into it and a lovely dressing table, it also had cupboards but as we have built ins I didnt need them. I went back to the garage sale after measuring our room and offered them $150 for it, but told them if someone was wanting the whole set then to sell it to them as it was the better situation for themselves. I fretted for two days not hearing from them, when the daughter came into my work and said it was mine, they had, had offers for it but left it for me as I was nice to them telling them the worth of their parkerware. Yea! So that was how we accumulated all the things for our art deco room, I have already two big beautiful prints one of the rudolfe salis black cat and another of a 1940's advertisment with an art deco looking lady in it and alot of george barbier prints for the walls. At a fete the next weekend mum and dad scored some great things including a chrome art deco drinks table for the room and some very shabby chic white bedside tables for judy's room, they have carved queen anne like legs with roses cut into them. We pick up the queen bed for that room tuesday aswell.

Today I hosted a morning tea for my cousins Courtney and Madeline to show them the house, I cleaned frantically in the morning so it would be gleaming and smelling lovely and then put on my best vintage wares. They gave us the most beautiful house warming present of a flamingo vase, I LOOOOVE FLAMINGOES and am getting a flamingo tattoo soon! My mum found some flamingoes for the front garden which I think I am getting for my birthday. They stayed for a few hours and we ate lots of naughty food and then I caught a bus down the road to some of wha we call dollar shops, similar to quids in, and got lots of nice lil goodies.
Judy is coming over soon! We are both very excited! We arent planning many things but the town is a buzz with whale watching, its peak season in August/September and I enquired about it today as a day trip. Loooks good! We are definatly going down to Pottsville in october when its going to be real warm: good for kayaking in the river/beach and thing we are going to do the rainforest and noosa hinterland for our few days in September. Make sure you bring sunscreen and yr sunnies! Its getting warmer already, around 23-26 during the day, still a lil brisk at night but its getting brighter earlier in the morning.
I'll post some pictures when Stevie comes home. I have to go peel a kg of prawns and 4 crabs for dinner tonight. Yum!