Inspiration

My sister Kate and I have our registration in for the Decoration and Design fair. We may also head over to Design: Made: Trade as well. A good pair of shoes will be required!

I hope we get see some great local stuff, we both have lots of ideas and see amazing products online, however shipping to Australia from OS is tres expensive so it's not often an option.

Maybe a new pair of clogs are required!

via funkis

Birthday Love

I few weeks ago it was my birthday!

Here are a few photo memories

I heart goldfish

Best birthday card ever! Thanks Alex.

Delicious- Meredith goats cheese and cracked pepper toast for breaky. Alex asked if wanted to go out, but it was a glorious sunny morning and it's nice being in our  newish home.

Chai tea

Flamingos

Turning 26 is overrated 

We lost the birthday candles in the move.

Lots of people over for drinks, so lots of candles.

I was very spoilt for my birthday and was surrounded by family and friends. I have a big joint birthday dinner with my sister's husband's brother (hmmm) as we share the same birthday!

The next day was mother days so Alex's parents stayed down and his sister, brother in law and their adorable baby cam to visit for the day.

I do love a birthday...except for the ageing part!

XOXO

Getting Stuff Done!

Since we moved life has been busy. We had a few quiet weekends where we didn't get much done. This weekend was different!

Friday there was crazy torrential rain, it well and truly feels like winter.
I got stuck in traffic after a car accident on my way to a client appointment and felt very unsafe on the roads. Friday night I was ready to have some fun!

I headed to a VIP night at Nevenka. Amazing champagne, good company and fantastic clothes made for an enjoyable night. Rosemary and Ashley at Nevenka made the evening fantastic. I loved so many things and ended up with a gorgeous shirt.

Saturday and Sunday were forcast to rain so we didn't make any plans. When I woke up Saturday the sun was shining so we decided a trip to the hardware store was on the cards and some fixing up at the house.
Our double doors were desperate for a varnish. Te previous owners had a dog who scratched at the door and wore away the varnish. The water was just soaking into the cedar and by summer we would have had to replace them if we didn't act soon.
It's not ideal painting weather, but this was an urgent job. Dad mentioned that we needed to get onto it every time he came around!

Alex and I are not DIYers so we did three trips to the hardware to get everything we needed. We will learn...slowly!

Lots of sanding and painting and a few hours later, shiny doors.

Unfortunately the wood on the bottom of the doors is damaged. We tried our hardest to sand them back but now they are painted the darker water stained areas are more noticeable. I think when summer arrives we will strip the doors and either take to them with an electric sander or paint them.  

 This is not a sponsored post... My Rhino ladder is the business. It has a shelf and flat steps to work from. If you need a ladder for around the home I highly recommend!

With the sun shining it was a nice day to be outside. We made use of the awning for shade....and later to keep the rain off our freshly painted doors.

Sunday morning I got up and painted another layer, im cool like that! Being a young-ish homeowner has it's challengers. One being getting up after a night out to paint! Champagne and paint fumes are not friends!

Other things achieved this weekend:

-Seals put around the windows in the front room
-Caught up with friends
-put up heaps of Alex's posters in his 'man cave'
-Pulled down the sheers in the bedroom and the living room

I will post about the sheers next week! I think the lounge ones will stay down but bedroom ones might go back up!

I hope you all have a nice week

Simone xoxo

Weekend

This weekend I had some big plans... some happened, most didn't. I did however catch up with several friends so that makes it the perfect weekend! 

Brunch on Saturday with my friend Mich who was heading off OS. Followed by some shopping.

Saturday arvo was more shopping in Yarraville, with my friend Naic, then dinner with Penelope. 

Dinner was followed by a trip to Munich in the city. Long island iced teas in a stein were a good idea at the time... not so much the next day.

On our way to the next bar we found a streamer tree. This is the only half decent photo of me that came out as Naic had the camera on film and I had consumed the above iced tea! 

Im pretty sure my parents who had been at the football enjoyed the trip home from Melbourne with me singing Lana Del Ray in the back and telling amazing stories too! 

Around the houseI did get several loads of washing done and the ongoing battle with the washing machine and the uneven floor continues! 

After several trails at a solution we now need to get serious and build a permanent platform in the old fireplace so we can get the washing machine out of the middle of the laundry! 

I hope you all had a fruitful weekend! 

Friday update!

Desk tidy and dust bunnies eliminated!
This makes me happy like my desk dwarf!

FRIDAY

What a long week, i have made it to Friday yay!
With only one client today I have a big day of paperwork and phone calls ahead of me, yuck!
I did do some training yesterday, the lady said that you should clean your desk once a week! That sounds like a sweet procrastination task.

This weekend I plan to:

-Cover my lamp shade ( I tried spray painting them. FAIL)
-Hang our bathroom cupboard (dad required)
-Clean the whole house, it's tres dusty!
-Do several loads of washing!

I will also catch up with my darling friends Penelope and Naic Saturday and tonight's plan include continuing the couch to 5k program and dinner/ drinks with my sister!

Happy weekend!

Wardrobe Love

As much as I curse about the lack of bathroom storage in our new nest, there is a good amount of clothes storage.
The previous inhabitants put built in ikea wardrobes in. The put a double and corner unit in the main bedroom and a double in Alex's man cave.

Initially we shared the space, I had the corner and Alex had the double space. I was pretty squashed and hadn't unpacked all my clothes.

It took about 2 weeks of slowly hinting, complaining about lack of shoe space and leaving the odd stiletto lying around to be stood on for Alex to move out, not entirely out, just his clothes.
He seriously had 4 shirts and a few pair of pants with a few baskets in a large double wardrobe, what a waste!

Don't stress, I have put the space to good use!

 The newly acquired double wardrobe. AMAZING! Also note my stool, these are tall cupboards for a little lady. I also have another in the kitchen for those hard to reach places.

 I'm not the neatest person, folding is not my strong point. There was no was I was spending hours perfecting my wardrobe for photos. It is not me at all!

 Yes, I now have a whole draw for scarves. Very indulgent of me, but it brings me joy every scarf wearing day (about 3 per week).

 The trade off of acquiring the double wardrobe I needed to take on some tech boxes. They are way up the top so it doesn't bother me.

All neat and tidy and all mine. It's no walk in robe, but our previous house had no cupboards so this is dreamy!
Alex still has a whole double cupboard and some ikea cubes in another room!