fun with paint

I have beenplaying with paint a bit lately , it has been fun......And with muffins and paint.....

ANd with paper and glue......

Lots and lots of fun :)

The House - #3

Yay the bricks are going up :) though they are only half way up, we havnt been out there since last saturday so i dont know how much more progress has been made since then....

And the back ;)

Art Journalling and a bit of scrapping

Hi there, so i have been doing a bit of painting in my journal lately, here is a couple that i am happy with, I wish i was a better photographer because i find it really hard to get a good piccy of my work, that shows the glitter and the dimension. I am loving the patty pans at the moment :)

Moving fast -Part two

This is the back of the house with the frame up without the roof trusses (is that what they are called?), the bricks are sitting there waiting to go up. I think we are gonna build a deck that goes out over those rocks, i am a little worried about the boys falling down there so Paul will be building something as soon as we move in, hopefully there is enough time between moving in and Christmas ;)
This is from the front, I love that there is so much sky out there...
Obviously the roof frame is now on the gutters are up in this piccy, the windows are in, and though you cant see it there are some bricks up around the garage.

Mum is taking us up there tomorrow- i have been getting a bit sick of driving up there on my own, Paul has been at work, he works up near the house..... tomorrow i will have some new photos.

The house - part one i guess

The New House has started to consume me. I spend so much of my time thinking about it ! I cant help myself, I am so excited !!! Ok so this is the block, which is on quite a slope and is quite a large bock, the boys will have lots of room to run around an play. Paul would love to have a large amount of land and have cows but i dont think i can see myself chasing after cows when they get into the wrong paddock. ANYWAY so we had to get a large retaining wall put in ( somehow in the process the next door neighbours fence got damaged so we will have to get that all fixed up) Those rocks are rellly big- almost up to my head.

This is the front of the block, as you can see we look up onto a hill that is farming land- often there are sheep there, we also had to cut into the block , just to the right of this photo there is a massive rock that continues all the way to the road- our driveway has to go around it.The slab went down and we were so excited, we did have champaign on the slab with pauls family. We have some beautiful windows at the back of the house that look out on to that view of the hills on the other side of the town- i belive that is farming land also - hopefully we will keep our views..... So officially the bricks are going up but i think that is enough photos for today- i have to track the others down they are all over the place :)

At the moment

While we are living at my mums while the new house is being built, I have all of my scrapping and crafting supplies in the Kitchen hidden behind her old wooden cupboards. My mum has an oldish kitchen and being that she was a single mother hasn't been able to replace it until now- when we move out she is going to renovate some of the house , good thing too cos the boys have damaged some things a little. We have two families stuff crammed into one small living space. Luke's cot is in the Dining room (which before we moved in was a dining room then converted into my brothers room when i was younger) he has been shoved in between boxes of things that cant get wet and a dining room table. He doesn't mind, the boys don't play in there he only sleeps in there.Blake is in my old room that has now been painted whitish colour and just doesn't feel like my old room any more. Our bedroom is crammed with boxes of old stuff and stuff that i have been buying for the new house. So any way because we are crammed in I get all of my painting, sewing, drawing and scrapping done on the kitchen bench, i kinda like it on the kitchen bench it is a really nice height. I spend most of my time in the kitchen, we have a couch a small dining table, a tv and a cd player. I am happy here.I don't think my mum and Paul are so happy about it when they come home and there is paint on the kitchen bench lol. My mums house is a place where i feel so safe and comforted a place where i can be me and no one can hurt me here.

The downside of being here is knowing that we haven't been in our own home since Blake was one - by the time we get there it will almost have been 3 years, and it has been a real stress on us, just at first we were worrying about weather to sell our house or not, then once we did there was a time when Paul regretted selling it ( even though by that time we had had Luke and there wouldn't have been enough room for all of us anyway ) Then finally deciding to build rather than buy after doing the house hunting thing, then choosing a more expensive builder and going through the process only to realize that it wasn't worth it for us and wasn't what we wanted to then change to a mainstream builder. I have in some ways enjoyed the process- living in the Adelaide hills was something i always wanted to do and Paul's work has been just where we have wanted to be. And since we started the building process i have l loved being able to choose EVERYTHING !! But i just feel like i am going to explode now because i am so EXCITED to be in the new house.

So many conversations that Paul and i have star with "when we are in the new house"
should i give you some of our everyday wishes......

When we are in the new house...
we wont have to tippy toe past the boys bedrooms at night to go to the toilet
we will have a big oven not a tiny little convection oven
I will have my very own studio
I will be able to decorate
we will not be so squished
i wont have to wash so many dishes i will have a dishwasher
we will have our furniture back
we will be able to have a shower in the morning without waking the boys
We will find things that i packed three years ago and have forgotten about- it will be like Christmas !!! :)

So I will have to post some pictures of the house going up..... I think today or yesterday the bricks have or are going up we will soon be at lock up stage. YAY