tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4964514731058190362024-03-15T01:18:50.958+11:00Red Berry Soup ... destination differentAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142805383612317804noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496451473105819036.post-74150142697490176022012-12-25T09:10:00.001+11:002012-12-25T09:12:56.465+11:00Little ThingsJust some little things from around the house ...<br />
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A Christmas gift for this year's tree<br />
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A little pot<br />
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Christmas decorating<br />
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My attempt at making sugar cubes in fancy shapes and taking a bad photo of them (both successful!)<br />
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Zwarte Piet (read about that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet" target="_blank">here</a>)<br />
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Little Minis<br />
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More little Minis!<br />
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Merry Christmas<br />
J xoAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142805383612317804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496451473105819036.post-90213733583302841802012-12-02T14:52:00.001+11:002012-12-02T14:52:26.444+11:00VisitorsWe have had some visitors lately. We had to quickly put together the guest room bed and scrounge together some linen and cushions for that and the sofa bed.<br />
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Both rooms still need work and the quilt on the dbl bed is way old. I need to decide what look we want for the guest bed so I can put up our pictures on the walls and decorate, but in the meantime ...<br />
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Guest Bed:<br />
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Study (sofa bed):<br />
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We have also had some other visitors. We have a resident pigeon and a resident cricket!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142805383612317804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496451473105819036.post-48083700419815797012012-10-24T21:38:00.002+11:002012-10-26T11:45:32.840+11:00Out and about OctoberThere is a lot of inspiration in our neighbourhood ... lots of little (or used to be little) workman's cottages to give us ideas for our place, plus a few grander designs.<br />
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Firehouse<br />
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Blue #3<br />
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Pale Green #10<br />
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So, this looks like a nice bathroom yes? I don't want to give too much away, but you can see that it is quite new, a decent size, fairly "stylish" (as real estate agents might say!) It is missing the rustic quality that we look for but we were thinking we would get something way more 1940s and pink ;-)<br />
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Some bright spark installed the pipes so the waste from the toilet and the shower has to go uphill! They also installed decking over where the pipes run through the back garden and one of the footings for this decking sits right on top of a pipe, so the pipe has cracked.<br />
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It's such a nice welcome back to home ownership, but we are still firmly in the no regrets category.<br />
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Peridot band around the outside, jade disk in the middle and a little pearl in the centre.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142805383612317804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496451473105819036.post-34023563009690452392012-08-28T22:50:00.000+10:002012-08-28T22:50:19.011+10:00On the LambLook what we got ...<br />
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(all photos taken by Jenny McKellar)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04142805383612317804noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496451473105819036.post-53977776623753706552012-08-19T21:09:00.004+10:002012-08-19T21:19:04.906+10:00Charlotte 101So, this is how it works ...<br />
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