Home and Gardens

We have been making some more small improvements to the house, via garage sales, trips to Lily's cottage and the Caboolture Markets. My mum has had sundays off this month, so we've been up nice and early and trouncing around the place! Last week we went to Caboolture bright and early, then Lily's cottage and then onto North Lakes and it was a day full of excellent bargains!

This week we went to the Redcliffe Markets and then out to Bunnings to get some things for us to do over the Easter Long Long weekend. We are going to Spotlight on Wednesday so I can get some backing for the curtains in the art deco room, thats my task for the weekend, backing some curtains and making some cushions.

We then went to the Redcliffe Botanical Gardens which are lovely, for Harmony Day, it had dances and acts from all different countries and lots of stalls, it was really quite good. I ate myself silly with Krishna food, love love love kofta balls!

We had some good news regarding some organising when Judy and Jim and the girls are here, we are going down to Pottsville the week starting the 15th of December and as Aunty Marion and Keith and the girls are going to be there the week before from the 8th, we decided that it would be fun if we are all down there, so we've got the caravan and we rang up to book the spot behind the caravan, and it was one of only two spots left for that week! In march! So it was meant to be!

I'll post some pics of some things that I've come across which have made their way into our home.

The pink garden stands i got for a $1 each from a garage sale and sprayed them the same pink as my flamingos.

The big owl planter i got from a garage sale for $10.00 and the hanging one I got from Lily's cottage. Stevie got me the small owl when he went to Sydney.

Most of the New Guinean masks we got from Collectarama last year and a mixture of Garage sales and some from family. The cat ashtray stevie got in melbourne and our longue book case is becoming very full with red and orange glassware from the 70's.

Mum got the vintage Matador poster which was beautifully framed for $3 last time she was in pottsville, its awesome! The palm tree wall ceramic needs to get hung, and I got that for a few dollars at a garage sale.

My mum got the rose bag holder from Pottsville for $3 and I got the gold and cream bag from Caboolture last week for $5. I have too many bags now and have them spread over three rooms! The little girl hanging I got for 20 cents at a op shop and it hangs from the light switch in our room, it has quite a japanese feel to it.

All we need to do this year is finish the painting of the windows when its cooler! Get the bathroom done, and some air conditioning later on in the year, we also want to get a Balinese like cupboard for the back deck.

Pretty much all the rooms are completed and the place is looking good!