This weekend

Well I wanted to stay home on saturday and chip away at my mountain of washing but we decided to head out in the morning and get some things done. Spotlight first on the list: thread, zip and pillow insert. I bought some gorgeous fabric off etsy a few months ago. I am making a decorative pillow for my mum whose birthday is coming up soon.

Next was JB Hifi: new mouse for the desktop, some cd's and dvd's and of course the kids wanted to spend some of their birthday money and get a new ds game.

Thats how they were until lunchtime. In the afternoon headed out and arranged some fire wood to get delivered.

Did I get any washing done? Two school uniforms and some bed sheets. Guess what I did Sunday, more washing! My mountain of washing is still in the laundry and I cant work out that somehow it keeps getting bigger!

Hope your weekend was good. Did you finish what needed to be done?

Mood board challenge 2

I am enjoying doing the mood board challenge. This time I made a 4 year olds birthday card.

You can find the challenge over at jot magazine.

My photo a day challenge: Day 14. Texture #fmsphotoaday Come on over and have a look.

Photo a day challenge: Day 13

I was deciding whether or not to do this photo challenge for today as it was to take a picture of your kitchen. Most of the time our kitchen is clean and tidy but there are always things laying about. At the moment we still have some easter eggs sitting in easter bags on the bench. The kids drink bottles are in the dish rack, rinsed and ready for filling up tomorrow. There are 2 loaves of bread sitting on the bench to make sandwiches in the morning. There is a fresh homemade raisin bread sitting on the cake cooler rack near the chopping board and I could go on and on. So I decided to take a photo of my favourite large kitchen appliance, my oven. I love my oven. 

What does your kitchen look like during the day? Are there all kinds of things hanging out on your bench?

Photo a day challenge: Day 12

I thought I would give the photo a day challenge a go. Chantelle over at fatmumslim is running the challenge. The June photo a day for today is take a photo of what you were doing at either 11am today or 11pm tonight.

My entry for today. I was loading the clothes dryer at 11am.

A trip to Maldon

After dropping the kids off at school, my travelling buddy (my hubby) and I plus our two furry children headed up to Maldon. We had a nice walk up and down the main street, looking at the shops then decided to head into Castlemaine for some lunch. The four of us enjoyed our trip and it was lovely to have a day with my hubby. Can't wait for the next adventure!

Relaxing long weekend

It was the long weekend here in Australia. The Queens Birthday long weekend. Just stayed at home. Had breakfast sitting by the fire, had a sausage sizzle for lunch and made some homemade orange cordial. It was nice not to go anywhere, we got some things done around the house and spent some time with the kids. 

Our lovely stair carpet

I was over on Retro Mummys blog having a read of her latest post. She has replaced her lovely green carpet in the family home sneak peek at the new carpet and she wanted to know "Can you beat me with older carpet at your house or beat my green carpet???" Well this is our family homes original carpet from the early 70's. This lovely coloured carpet was throughout the house in the lounge, hallway, bedrooms and stairs. We have still left it on the stairs as we haven't decided on what to put on the stairs as yet. It was a nice carpet but made the house seem small so we put a light beige carpet in which made the house look bigger and opened it up really well.

This photo probably isnt that great to show the colour but the stairs area isnt that bright. The colour of the carpet is a red/burgundy colour.