Confessions of a listaholic

As a have mentioned before a couple of times I love to write lists, the only problem is that I don't always finish them, I always seem to get a bit sidetracked along the way. Now do you see this folder -



I know it is not too pretty at the moment, I have to spend some time on prettying it up like Rachael did with her journals. This book is the ultimate list, my renovating projects folder, the folder is divided up into rooms and in each section I have a list of jobs to either finish or start, as well as some pretty pictures that I have found while looking on the Internet for inspiration.






I made this folder a couple of months ago and although I have finished and crossed out a couple of projects there is still so much to do. I have decided that I will tackle the list by doing one project or room a week, so each Sunday night I will decide what project I am going to do for the next week and I will do a short post about it including a before photo, then when the project is finished I will post again and show you all the finished product, that way if I don't get the project finished in a week the whole of blogland will know about it. Nothing like a bit of shame to get one motivated.


So here is this weeks project - The Laundry



Man I can't believe that I am showing you all this mess.


During the Easter school holidays my boys helped me to paint 5 rooms, they wanted guitar hero for their wii and I wanted some painting done so a deal was made, they did all the roller work while I did all the cutting in. The laundry was one of those rooms, but we were not able to completely finish it as there was a very large fridge in here and I needed Paul to remove it so that I could finish the painting. So now with the fridge gone I have no excuse. I will show you a photo of the finished laundry as soon as I have finished. Until then...........


Cheers and Best Wishes,

Has Easter gone already..............

l have not put away my Easter decorations yet, the reason being that I had a bit of a shopping spree through ETSY, we don't get much in the way 0f Easter Decorations in shops around here only really cheep and corny things so when I saw some of the lovelies on ETSY I couldn't help myself. So here is some of what has arrived this week.

From Celestina Marie Designs, how cute are these, they are even better in person -

From Nancys Heart

I also had my Easter Egg Eggstravaganza Swap off swapbot arrive from The Netherlands

Till next time

Cheers and best wishes,

Lest we forget

Today is one of the most important days of the year to me, my father was in the Army for 25 years and so Anzac Day has always ment a lot to my family, I have wonderful memories of dawn services and the city march watching for my Dad in the parade. Dad will be 80 this year and is still going strong. To all the service men and women both now and in the past, in Australia and our mates in New Zealand my family thanks you from the bottom of our hearts.

Best wishes,

Happy Easter

I hope that everyone has a wonderful relaxing Easter, we're off to Golden Beach on the Sunshine Coast for a couple days.

Cheers and best wishes,

Easter Egg Hunt

Just a Quick post, today is the day for the Hunt part of the Easter Egg swap that I was involved in, these are the eggs that I made for this swap.

They were so much fun to make, now I am off to find the Eggs that were sent to me, I will show them to you when I know who made them.

UPDATE : Yeah that was so much fun hunting for the maker of the eggs that I received. So here are the beautiful eggs that arrived in the post for me.

This beauty was made by Elizabeth -

And this cutie was made by Kathy -

A big thank you to both ladies for such beautiful Eggs, this is where I have them displayed at my front door, they are the first thing that you see as you enter my home.

Thank you so much to Viv for organising this wonderful fun swap, if you would like to see more of the Easter Eggs that were created pop on over to Viv's blog for a list of participants.

Till next Friday,

Cheers,

Paper Work and Some Easter Decorating too.

Hi All,

I had a very exciting week this week I spent three days filing and sorting out paper work as well as completing our BAS and clearing out the computer desk, exciting hey, I do feel great now that it is all done though, it puts a smile on my face each time that I look over at how clean our office corner is at the moment. At least that is now one job of my list completed.

I did get up to some other more exciting things though too, I finished two of these for my nieces for Easter I have another two to finish, and I did have time to do a little Easter decorating too.

I had a couple of parcels arrive this week too, one from the lovely Gail.

And the other I can't show you yet I have to wait till 5th April, but my eggs arrived for the Easter Egg Hunt Swap, and they are just so cute, I can't wait to find out who made them (that is the hunt part of the swap).

Until next time.

Cheers,