Ductwork Spacemen.....

Only kids could think of this!!!! It is some of the ductwork for the central heating which still needs to be installed. We are settling into the house a bit better now. Master 7 isn't feeling as homesick for the old house now and is settling down for bed at night a bit easier. We have a few doors on now too - we can go to the loo in peace! My Dad came down for a few days last week and did a few more jobs for us - skirting boards, architraves, doors, door handles etc... Thank you Dad.

Continuing on from the Ductwork Spacemen above, here is a photo of the boys a few weekends ago at the Star Wars Exhibition at Science Works in Melbourne. Master 7 hated the crowds and just wanted to get out of there...until R2D2 "spoke" to him. The rest of us thought the exhibition was fantastic and loved every minute of it. If you get a chance to see it before it ends at the beginning of November, do, it was a great day out.

Now, getting away from the space theme....this was a "house warming" present from a lady we know. She gave us some money to buy something so we put it towards an original painting by Gail McCormack. I love Gail's paintings, they are so beautiful and very reasonably priced too. As well as originals, she has many prints, cards, mixed media and her husband, Tony, restores old furniture.

Now to crafting, I have been making a few things to stock up the shops for Christmas. I have also been thinking of doing a local market as well.....I need to think about it a bit more first.

I will leave you here with a little snippet of my favourite fabrics all piled, neatly, in my new sewing room cupboard!

Cath Kidston on the left and Rachel Ashwell on the right.......ah!

I haven't had a lot of time to visit you all lately but I will try and make some time this week.

Hope you are all well, Kathryn. XX

Where did that month go....???

I cannot believe it has been over a month since my last post!

We really accomplished a lot in the 2 weeks prior to us moving in to the new house.

It still feels like someone else's place and not our own though!

We still have so much to finish off and we have made it our mission to do something to the house everyday.

Yesterday, I cleaned the awful stickers the window company insisted on glueing on to every window - not with glue that just peels off, the glue that sticks and takes ages to rub off.

Of course, it would have to be a man's idea.

So, let's see what we have been doing in the last month.....beware, lot's of photos!

This is the flat packed kitchen all stacked in the garage......

And this is most of it installed. We still have to put the glass cabinets over on the right hand wall and construct the bulkhead that will house the rangehood over the oven- on the left. The blackwood island bench needs to be oiled, the cornices finishing, the corbels and handles installed too.

The flooring - Bamboo- was (mostly) completed a few weeks before but the fireplace sheeting was only finished a few days before we moved in.

This is it now.

We are going to put stone all over the cement sheeting. The stone is man made here in Ballarat at a place called Rustic Stone.

The electricians were here.

Having a breather

The tilers were here too as well as the plumber, the carpet layer, the painter (me) and the general handyman (hubs). The poor boys were fobbed off a bit to friends and relatives so we could get things done in peace. They survived.

We also celebrated a birthday! Happy Birthday master....7!

And I keep telling everyone who comes to visit, that this room is the piece de resistance!

The sewing room in all its' messy glory! The first thing I did was to unpack all of the fabric and then set the machines up!

After not doing anything crafty at all for about 5 weeks I was eagre to get stuck in to something.

I recovered a couple of lamp shades for the boys rooms.

Cath Kidston London Icons fabric

And, I made a start on a new quilt to match the above lampshade for master 8. I think they were getting sick of curling up under flowery girly things!!!

I tell you, I am loving all of this space! I actually have somewhere to cut out my fabrics now!

And there is so much of this sort of thing lying around the house everywhere I look.

BUT, we are here and I feel so bloomin' lucky.

Thank you, and cyber smooches, to everyone who emailed to see how we were getting on.

Isn't bloggy land wonderful! It feels great to be back.

Kathryn. XX