Happy New Year.....

Welcome to the New Year.....

2016

The month before Christmas has been go go go...here for us. We have had

Lots of markets to do as well as the shop before Christmas.

Christmas was here before we knew it.

Bruce and I took 

Harry, Mason and Will to the Christmas lights.

Was so much fun with these three ratbags.

They loved all the lights and displays.

Charlie our little Christmas elf...

All of the children and grandchildren were home this Christmas.

7 grandchildren to celebrate Chrissy with.....so much noise woops I mean mess....no no fun hahah

Christmas lunch was in the new Shed where 22 people sat very 

comfortably.

 Cassie got engaged over Christmas and here she is showing off her bling.

She will be marrying a wonderful young Christian man, that is just right for her.

With Christmas over we saw the new year in celebrating Robertson's 18th.

He isn't 18 until the 7th but with all the family home we had his party early.

A very late night was had by all....

The birthday cake was candle licking good as well.

So as you can see things have been busy.....

This week I am spending time in my garden unwinding and looking forward to the new year.

I have spent a couple of days cleaning and rearranging the shop at

The Old Dairy which reopens this Friday.

I have so enjoyed the year of 2015.....It has been a good busy year.

2016

This year will see us slowing down somewhat...We will continue to do

markets and have the shop....Bruce will continue his plumbing business and now has Robbie on board so things will be easier for him...

Are you looking forward to this new year?

I am getting a cup of tea and off to see how you are all going....

Blessings

Mandy

Welcome every one.
I have been a bit quiet around here as Both Alanah and Charlie have been staying. They go home next week as Alanah and Cam's house will be finished by then and they can move into their new home at Dalby.
Meanwhile I am getting in as much cuddling as I can.

He is the best baby, he will just lie there and watch you with his big almost black eyes.

Remember a couple of posts ago I showed you the crochet lamp shade cover?
Well it"s all finished,what do you think?

The photo above is of the lamp before, the lamp was only $1 and the shade was much more $3 haha.
I have it up at The Old Dairy as it looks good with the retro wall paper. I need to make one for the house now.

Yesterday we went to town and Alanah was able to get a few things she needed...We were getting a bit stir crazy
as it has been raining for the last week....

I do love foggy, wet winter days though...Lots of soup making and crocheting has been happening...

I hope you are enjoying your week...

Blessings

Mandy

Mid week....

It is Wednesday already, where is he week going.

When I get in and give the house a good clean I like to change things around a bit.

I thought I would do something a little differant with this wall. So I have a collection of my Roses here now.
Still have plates on the other walls as I do like plates on the walls. But I needed a change here.

Still in love with my sweet pink chair, this peice is a keeper for sure.

Say hello to our newest member of the family, her name is Scarlett. Robbie's 17th birthday present she is the sweetest little girl, loves to sleep here on this tray. I don't mind as long as she stays off my pink lounge.

Not getting a lot done today as i have a sick little boy at home as well as a new puppy to play with.

The back yard has been mowed and that is as far as I have got in the yard work...Weeds are still calling out to me.....

I have a new blog now that is Just about my litle Market Shop. It is in the side bar so feel free to hope over and have a look. It is called The Old Dairy Goes Vintage.

Hope you are enjoying your week.




Blessings
Mandy

Shop Open

Welcome to 2015

This year I have to decided to follow my dream of opening a shop.

Today is my first day.
A while ago I read a Quote that said
"If you are not doing what you LOVE
then you are wasting your life"

Now I love my life and all that I do. I enjoy craft, soap making, candle making, shopping at op shops and all these fun things.
So why not continue to do this on a wider scale.

I have really enjoyed getting back and doing the markets so opening a shop is a extention of this.
It's a hobby really, that I have so much fun doing that I can fill a shop, so I have!!!!

I won't be open every day just Thursday - Saturday 9:30 -4:30.
We will see what the new year brings and I am going to enjoy my little shop.

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL

Mandy

Reclaiming My Space.....

Happy Monday and 1st December

Yeahhhhh December is here!!!!!!!!!

  The Christmas Decorations are up.

Sadly there was only Robbie and I putting them up, but we enjoyed it.

OK so I did most of it and Robbie took photos.

We had our Market Day again on Saturday, more stalls and 

lots more people. I am so enjoying the atmosphere of them O  and the selling as well.

Mind you the kitchen has looked like a candle making factory.

I admit it is a messy business but fun.

 So I decided (well Bruce said so really, sick of a messy house)

to reclaim my Old Dairy.

Yesterday afternoon I made a couple batches of soap and when I finished

I came back to my clean house.

 Zena helped me as well.

The best part is I just unload everything in here until the next market

and it is all together.
I have often toyed with the thought of having a shop here at The Old Dairy.
The problem is it is set back of the road and I don't know how that would go.
For now though I am happy doing markets.

I am only using one room and there is still a guest

room that is nice and tidy, so still room for when the kids come home.

Hmm just went to check my blog and realized I didn't publish it

So technically it's Happy Tuesday....whoops

My New Sewing Nook ( No 3 I think)

 

I have pictures, I 'm still unable to get a browse when I go to photos so I am loading them straight to pisica photos and then I  can add them no worries, it was a fluke that I worked this out  I tell you.

 

But I can now show you my new sewing nook...

Below is when I moved from the Old Dairy into the family room.

 

 

Now I have moved in to the main living room. I needed to have more light and I like to look out the window when I am sewing.

 

 

So I moved this cabinet and put a desk that I had around there.

 

 

I use the dinning room table to cut out on so every thing is nice and close. Not Ideal I know, but it works and at night I can have tea and go back to sewing..

 

 

I have made 8 new cushions so far and as I am blogging my material has arrived from www.fabrictraders.com.au   So after lunch I can get in and make some more. 

 

 

I thought I needed some yellow so I will make some yellow ones. The hard part is choosing the fabric as Fabric Traders have so many to choose from.

 



 

I am now back to having Monday's at home as I have got some-one that is working for me Mondays and when school starts it will be Mondays and Thursday's. Then when these Grand babies start coming I can drop every thing and go to Roma or Charters Towers or even across the road to Chloe. Now as long as Alanah DOES NOT  get married and settle in Canada I am all ready to go.

 

Have a great week all...

I'm going to get that sewing done.

 

Blessings

Mandy

The Old Shed...

Wednesday greetings, and yes Wednesday already and I haven't shown you what we did on the week end.

I am making a few changes to The Old Dairy.

Above is the front of the Dairy and the guest quarters, below is the shed at the back. I have always had plans for this shed.

Other then having somewhere to park the mower.

  I have always seen this area as an outside kitchen and living area and then the old dairy will just be used for sleeping.(no more craft room) 

BUT The inside....O my

My darling Greg used this as a dumping ground and his little sons are no better. Poly pipe, wood, steel, push bikes etc I think you get the picture.

 O and lets not forget motor bikes

So that is what this shed looked like before. A mess. So we got to cleaning it all out, it is now empty. Why ?you ask...

My youngest daughter Cassandra turned 16 on Sunday...Below you can see her and her new  birthday pressie...

Meet Chili the Tapoddle. But also I have always given my girls a sweet 16th birthday party. Cassie wanted a bush themed party. Now what better place to have it than in the old shed.

So we cleared and we cleaned and we cleaned some more.

Until

it was all empty.(cold beer here)

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 OK so now it just looks like an empty shed(which it is) but boy do I have plans...

This shed is going to become our main entertaining area. The above area I am turning into a outdoor kitchen. Below will be the shed for parties.

I have been having fun getting this shed ready for 30 16yr olds on Saturday night.(twitch twitch)

It only has a dirt floor so we got hold of some old carpet hessian side up and tar dar a floor.

I have been bringing in furniture and decorating it all for a bush theme...

It is starting to look good, I will show you it all decorated when it is finished.

Now I need a name to call this area.

The Old Shed????

hmmmm    any suggestions at all?

Let me know what you think...

Blessings

Mandy