Morning Sunshine.

This Morning the sun is shinning in and and making every thing sparkle.
I love the morning sunshine it has a softness and warm glow to it.

Today I am looking after Harry while Chloe has a docs apt, only 4 more weeks until her new baby is born. Every one is getting excited.

I will be spending time watching Harry and may be fit in a little bit of knitting, and if I'm lucky enough to get him asleep catch up on book work.

What are your plans for today?

Mandy

Sofa Love..

Hi all 

I couldn't wait to show you my new find, Thursday as I was

doing the op shops I found the perfect sofa.

She is pink, beautiful and all mine.

I am not ashamed to admit that yes I did a little jig, clapping my hands

with glee and jumping up and down when I laid eyes on her.

Those buttons and those perfect legs, and let me say she is in 

great condition.

I have been on the look out for a pink 2 seater sofa for this wall,

even green would have been good. It also had to have the velvet look about it.

What do you think?????...

O and I did get other goodies from my day out doing the thrift shops

but they pale in caparison to my 

Sofa.

Mandy

Changing Rooms.........

Some days you just need a change right....

I thought I would get in and rearrange the Dinning lounge area.

 Some days I should stay in bed when I have ideas like this as it is safer...

Before

The TV cabinet was against this wall and now 

below I have put some reading chairs there.

I moved the cabinet to the centre wall.

Lounge chair where the dinning table was.

Still trying to figure out where the wood heater will, need to find a new home

for my China cabinet. This seems the only wall for it though, so may-be in a different room.

I just don't know.

Before

Dinning table along front windows now.

All looks so boring.....

Yep hate it..

Spent all morning moving every thing and I don't like it and I'm too tired to move it back

sighhhhhhhh.

So went out and rearranged the front veranda...

Now I'm liking how it's coming together.

So I will have to sit in the newly arranged Lounge room and see if it looks any better...

Have a great week end..

Blessings

Mandy

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

Before and After....

 I finally have some photos of my new look family room.

That's right the painting is finished (insert happy dance) the last of the renos is over....

Lets have a look at the journey shall we, come along and have a look with me.

Remember this room before was bedrooms and entry way(below)

Now it is one nice big open living room.

We knocked down a lot of walls and had a support beam put in. Even before we painted it looked so good.

But now it is amazing.

What a change, so bright and airy. I have also moved the table and sitting area around. It is all working much better with the table closer to the kitchen.

Below you can see how this was once a bedroom.

Looking more like a family room with the lounge and a few plates on the wall.

Ta DA

I know, have I mentioned that I am loving the white, and don't the plates look so much better against the white walls.

Even this dinner set that has been here for years looks better.

Have you noticed I am using a turquoise colour in here, I have been collecting bits and pieces in this colour waiting for when I painted.

So what do you think?

I have to admit at first the white was very well WHITE, but once I got my plates on the walls and colour around with the cushion's and throws it made it much more MANDY.

But not every thing is white, I still love my blue kitchen. I have given it a freshen up with new white trims though, I will show you that latter.

Have a great day.

Mandy

The Posts are Gone.......

It started with removing one room, the corner bedroom so that the kitchen at the back was opened up.

Then I thought Why not take the middle bedroom out and make it into one big living area. So I have gone in the last 12 mths to a 6 bedroom house to a 3 bedroom house...

With one large bright living and dinning area.

Still the final touches to finish around the support beams near the ceiling need sheeting and holes under mats to fill in.

But it is starting to look just as I new it would all those months ago...

I hope you aren't sick of the reno posts just yet....

Have a great day

Mandy

Curtain Remake.............

The curtains all finally all up...

This was a major expense for me but I think it was well worth it..

Even though the posts need to come down the curtains have given this room continuance.

Remember before?

Being that this space used to be four separate rooms(lounge, dinning, front entry and 2 bedrooms) I had a real variety of curtains. In there own rooms they looked great, hmmmmmm altogether, not so good. Very busy....

At first I wasn't sure if i liked them ....Very plain for me as I love colour. After a day though I love them.
I have never bought curtains before I have always made them, so it was quite frightening when I saw the price of curtains.

I liked the look of the rings in the top. To by this material was $29 a metre from spot light and I still had to make them. The ones I got are just from K Mart....Yes K Mart a shop I never really look at but I was getting desperate and remembered I had seen curtains there..Well they were only $25 and they are 1.2 metres wide.....HA cheaper and ready to hang.

As you can see I needed alot of curtains.

12 in all.

hmmmmm still short. They just weren't full enough I thought, so back to K Mart..........None left.
No worries don't panic...Back to spotlight as I had seen the patterned curtains that I liked only they were a lot dearer. I got four of the patterned ones at $50 each and put one in the centre of each window....

Perfect

Above is with all the curtains opened and you can see how many windows are in this room. I had to have block out material as the morning sun streams in through this side.

I did get new rods as the old white ones were horrid. $150 for rods and brackets....

$240 for curtains from K mart

$ 200 for curtains from spotlight

$150 for rods

$590

Just as well I like them. Friends have been telling me this is not expensive for curtains....how much do you pay for your curtains?
I think this room has come together nicely, yes it still needs to be painted and the beams taken down. This might take a while as the builder is very busy with rebuilding from the flood damage. But for now I am very happy with it.

One last photo.

O while getting curtains I saw this mat for only $30 it looks much better than the blue one I had there, and the basket is for storing magazine's in. Baskets hmmmm I could do a whole blog on them loving them at the moment for storage.

Blessings

Mandy

From Dinning Room to Bed Room......

My bedroom has been a number of rooms over the years.

It started out life as the lounge room, which I can not find any photos of. If you click on lounge rooms in the side bar they are there.

It then became the dinning room after I lost Greg, as I needed a change. It made the most wonderful dinning room.

In this photo I am standing looking in. Where the flowered curtain is, is now the doorway into my bathroom, and the door to the right is my walk in robe.

This little bed side table was the phone table, but it makes a wonderful little table beside my bed.

On the other side I have kept this set of drawers, there is nothing in here but the room looked strange without 2 bed side tables.

My desk and little office.

From the bathroom mirror reflecting back into the bed room mirror.

My most amazing, wonderful walk in robe........

Now you can what a difference, from dinning room to Master Bed room....

My new light fitting, I also have a matching one for the bath room but the electrician is unable to get here with the creeks all flooded.

These curtains are my favorite and I made them years ago for my other bedroom. Now they look great in my new room and matching in the bath room.

I have used a lot of mirrors as there is only the one small window and mirrors help to bounce the light around the room.

I am yet to paint my room and it will be painted the same as the bathroom Antique White by Dulux. I will have to wait for some sunshine before I start though...

I enjoyed my first bath last night with good music ( Jimmy Barnes) a glass of good wine and lots of bubbles.

Bliss

Thank you for all the wonderful feed back on my bathroom, I hope you enjoyed the bed room tour.

Blessings

Mandy