Some photos to share,,,finally:)

Okay some photos to share...so for those of you who have been waiting to see pics of my new house..here are the living areas and our bedroom.....also i have attatched some of Leighs airbrushing artwork...the dolphin and skull he has done this year and the wave one (plus about 4 more i havent found yet LOL) he did last year in his first year of the course. This one taken from our double sliding doors we use everyday.
My scrap room.
Leighs dolphin
His skull
his waves

Our bedroom
looking from window towards ensuite
taken from couch
looking towards lounge area, from kitchen
from potbelly.

Hope this post makes sense and looks okay when i post it:)

Another fantastic day

I am so glad that there are alot of these at the moment, they are making a very stressful time of our lives at this point in time very bearable:)

First of all a couple of things just for memories sake....darrels granny was taken to RAH on Wed night, we went to visit her in the hospital and while we were there she started to vomit a dark liquid.....after it not stopping they rushed her to the hosp that night and not on Thurs as planned.
Turns out she has bleeding ulcers, she is 98 years old and doesnt want anything invasive done, they managed to stop the bleeding with medication and she apparantly is quite bright at the moment so that is good news,,,,however not sure when she will be brought back here.

Leigh went to an extra airbrushing course on wednesday as he missed the last one because of the school holidays, Brett his teacher was more than happy to do the extra class.
Leigh brought home his dolphin picture, im going to have to take photos of his artwork,,,we are so proud of him and it is what he wants to do as a job later on in life......keep trying to tell him you need maths, english and science but he doesnt seem to believe us.....poems to work out how words work in different contexts, maths to see if what he wants to get on a canvas will fit and science, well maybe he needs something different to clean his air brush machine with, does he know what would be safe to use LOL.

On to our fantastic day:)
First off i was allowed time off for good behaviour to go visit Belinda at RSS. We shared layouts and chatted for a good couple hours...hi B:) She spoilt me with a rak, thankyou so much and yes i will use it all:) Im sorry i brought the stamps you wanted but when we scrap together i will let you share them, hows that:)

I got to the old house where the gang was atabout 1pm and got stuck into stuff that needed doing there......we just got home after being there for 4.5hrs and we acheived SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!

We were hoping to just get the laundrey trough in and the tiles done, and maybe get the bathroom vanity in and that would have been great.......

Well we got the trough and vanity in, painted the whole laundry including, door and window frames and the ceiling, so apart from sticking down about 6 tiles under the laundrey it is DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then not to be outdone while the boys were in the bthroom, i managed to cut in around all the doors, windows and power points in Leighs room and half of Zoe's so they will take no time at all to paint...so great,,,,,,

We have just gotten home and i have showered and are in my comfies and i am so going to scrap............there is a blind challenge on at scrap therapy being hosted by Belinda and as i love blind challenges im popping over for a session LOL

okay so for now im off,,,,,not that many people read this but at least it is down for future reading:)
cya char

What a fantastic day!!!!!

After getting up early this morning i decided to clean my scrap room and do a layout using no paper, it was a challenge from Belinda at Scrap Therapy.

Mitre 10 was having a big sale on paint and seeings as we have to paint our old house ready for selling we thought it a great opportunity to get 3 x 6lts of paint and two tins of ceiling white as well....and for spending over $150 (yeehah!!!) we get a free chair and the chance to win a camper trailer...bring it on:) Anyways i digress...

After we got the paint we went out to start painting and lo and behold DH had left the shed keys home so we had to come all the way back to get them...grrr.....while home we grabbed some lunch and the picnic rug as well as the kettle and coffee stuff for lunch.

We started painting the second coat on the outside of the house and we took the guttering off that needs replacing, ready to do that tommorrow........we finally left there at about 4.30.

After getting home i said to daz so are you ready to start picking apples now LOL.....we have SO many things on the go at the moment and ALL of them are priority unfortunately, including BAS, painting, picking apples and scaping the pears.....we will get there eventually and i refuse to let it get to me.......

Anyway after our mammoth effort today we completed the outside of the house and also managed to pick a bin of apples....for those of you who are interested i shall take and upload some photos of our apple harvesting so you can have a looksee:)

So that is why it was a fantastic day!

Tommorrow will bring painting of trims and fixing some facia on the house and the replacing of the new guttering......as well as i guess just final touching up then during the week we will move onto the inside of the house:)

So that is all for today, its getting late and i was hoping to watch Lewis on TV it i some cop show i think......hmmm just looking its only 9pm...time i went to bed...this show isntsupposed to start until 9.45 i might be asleep by then LOL
anyway night
cya charxx

Back from Adelaide

We had a great time away, we only managed the overnight part of the trip, not arriving there until 5.15...it takes 2 and 3/4hrs to get to my friend Kells house in the Hills.

I managed some awesome pics and have been playing with a couple of them.

Now i have forgotten which ones i have uploaded....lol im playing with my new Lexmark printer.....it allows you to chose many different sized photos to be added to different sized pages so im trialling a heap of wallet sized and four other sizes to see what they are like:)

Oh okay obviously the first couple are my sweet little petals:) MrFeral is looking lovely as usual and a bit like Yahoo Serious....but believe it or not this is a cool look:(!

The tiny one of Zoe i took the other weekend and i think it is gorgeous

and some scenery from on the trip, thats it for todays short boring post....im tired and off to bed

Oh its our 19th wedding anniversary tommorrow....i CANNOT believe where that time has gone....i dont even feel like im 20 let alone nearly 40 LOL...isnt it ad getting old hahaha

Sunday

Hmmm today is supposed to be a busy day.....painting, scraping pears, paying bills, organising my menu and shopping for the week, help daughter with a project on naked chickens.....yes they are a real thing LOL

I spent a bit of time in my scrap room yesterday on and off as well as doing other stuff .....we should have done yesterday what we are planning to do today...oh well.

We must get the od house painted so we can get it on the market....while it is sitting there it is costing us $1000 a month in interest:(...........

oh just remembered Dh muttereed something about picking apple too.......at least we can do 2 or 3 hours of everything and get a heap done.

Im so not complaining i love multitasking and doing lots of stuff..... you have such a great sense of acheivement when you manage it all

Am posting a pic of me as a littlie....the girls at Chookscraps asked us to post a pic of us as bubs,,,so here are two of mine:)

Have a great Sunday and catch ya later

40th Birthday Party Help needed

It is DH and my 40th bday in july and aug and we wish to combine a house warming with that...can anybody help with ideas please????

Im prob thinking a BBQ here at home with friends from here and away. My dilemma is the ones that come from away need to find accomodation and then buy a gift (if they wish, we arent too fussed about gifts but if any one wanted to then vouchers would be most welcome) would this be tacky to write on the invite.

I dont want people to go to too much expense esp ones travelling. Unfortunately there isnt enough room here for all of them....although some room can be swung for 4 couples to sleep here and we can pop the kids in big tents under the big shed...would that be ok do you think.....

For the local guys i was thinking of asking them to bring a plate......maybe some to bring savoury and some to bring sweets?? Can anyone else shed some more light or give me some more ideas,,,,and would these options be okay????

Thanks in advance.

PLEASE dont be shy sharing ideas and tips,,,,,,ive never done this before and any help is appreciated
Char

Challenge at ScrapBoutique

We were set a non scrapping challenge at scrap boutique this morning so i donned my trusty thongs (or flipflops for the non Aussies)and wandered about the property looking for some Red, Blue, Brown and Yellow things to photograph.

I didnt want to do the usual stuff hence the thong donning and wandering. It is amazing what grabs your eye as you wander about. Im hoping that you enjoy seeing what i have photgraphed for you all.

Okay on with the Red Choices

1 the International tractor

2 a close up of the tractor

3 a closeup of a seeder machine here on the property, also used the wheel as part of my yellow challenge.

So browse on down thru my blog and check out the other pics ive added.

Thanks for stopping by

charxx

Yellow Post

Here are my yellow items of choice.

1 Pears still hanging on the tree

2 a wheel to a seeding machine that is here on the block

3 afron, cherry picker or hydraplat depending on where you live. We usethis to reach fruit in the larger trees.

4 dried pears ready to go to the processing shed to be packed for the supermarkets. Look for Angas Park Brand and you will find our produce:)

Brown Post

Here are my brown choices for the challenge.

1 & 2 are photos of our sultana vines....we had to turn the water off on them this year to save it for crops that would give us a higher return.

3 is one of our brand new chickens we got yesterday...

Blue Post!

Here are my blue choices.

1 The kids made blue pancakes for brekky this morning,,,how could i ignore that photo op!

2 & 4 Abstract shots of our disc blades used to disc up weeds.

3 DH wanted me to take a pic of his irrigation valve

5 Blue gum leaves on our property line

Its raining!!!!!!

It hardly ever rains here........to think 2 weeks ago it was 42 degrees....when they say it will rain here we never believe them!

The boys are going to get wet and cold, they have gone for a bike ride and i dont think either of them have credit LOL

In one of the shots you can see the girls on the motorbike at the end of the row.

First pic is looking over to the cemetary, second is straight out of my front door and third is looking towards the end of the block.

Thanks Krissy the rain dance must have worked:)

Our new babies

Here are the new additions to our family! Yes i know they are ugly and have no feathers and yes we do feel sorry for them but in no time they will be covered in feathers and be so tame their little cages will be a thing of the past!

They wont replace our babies we lost to the dog attack but they will sure will fill the pen:)

The kids have picked their faves and one has earnt the name vulture cause it has a long neck and a big tufty tail......hahaha. I will upload singular pics later on:)

Have a great Saturday!

Should have done this post first LOL

The first pic is one of our pear trees and as you can see they had quite alot of fruit on them...all in all it has been a good year for the pears.

Second Pc is Dh on the afron picking the tops of the trees, these bigger trees were here before MIL brought the property on 1956...so they are very old trees.

Pic three are pears in *sweat boxes* after coming out of the coolroom. We pick them green, they go into the coolroom for 7 days and then sit in the shed for another 7-10 days to ripen.

Pic four is a stack of trays cut and ready to be put into the sulphur tent to be sulphured.
They get about 72 hours of sitting in our sulphur tent and being sulphured then we stack them singularly on pallets....see how there are two trays side by side,,,well we will split them and put just one stack (of 25) per new pallet. So instead of one stack of 50 on one pallet there will be two stacks of 25 on two pallets)

Hope you liked this information.
I am going down later and will take photos of the stacks drying and some that we have scraped off into bins ready to take to Angas Park fr processing.....stay tuned
char......now im off to scrap:)

Pear Photos for those interested

Okay i shall post them and then title them after:)

Wow that worked! Thankyou to Zoe for being the model here:)

We use a triangular shaped knife as you can see. You put the pear with the calyx towards you...(the end bit) put your hands on either side of the pear and push down and away from you slightly very gently.

The calyx part falls into the bucket to be thrown later and you place the pear on the tray which we work on in stacks...

You need to be careful as the knives are very sharp and many a time you get skun oh so very slightly but it stings like mad!

Am going to post again about the picking bit of it...stay tuned and i shall see if blogger will play now!

We are in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have been at the new house for one week today and how fast has that gone!

We have been SO busy im not even going to try to recap what we have been up to.

I will however post some pics but these were taken before we moved in and i shall post new ones shortly as i go:)

The kids have been amazing, DH is absolutley loving this place and i find myself smiling at odd moments when i see him on the tractor or the kids driving around in their ute:)

And as for myself, i too am happy, i am implementing a no junk, and clean up as you go policy at this house and it is working! It includes telling DH to pick up the bath mat and hang it just so LOL.....well it is me that has to do it other wise and he may as well learn how i want it done haha.

DH and i went to the old house on Monday to get some more stuff and u fortunately found four of our five pet chickens dead:( Some dog had gotten in to the yard and killed them,,,,,to say we were upset was an understatement!

The survivor is here and she is doing very well.....and actually she has company! DS and friend brought *frederick* home for her as company. He is the ugliest chicken....and im betting it will be a rooster, he just has that look about him LOL...i must take photos of him. He is soon to be very tame!

The boys are building their pen at the moment. DD has a friend visiting and i have taken 5 mins as i have been on the go since 7.15 this morning...that job was scrubing floor tiles by hand:) Easier than using the mop and i wanted to see if the brown was part of the tile or not.....ummm nope it wasnt LOL

Anyway im going to go for now have to drop the friend home andorganise some tea i guess....im very tired i would love to scrap but all my stuff and i mean ALL of it is in the shed...and my scrap room is full of crap...need to do a fair bit of sorting out before i can get into my room:)

I also have my sister and her 5 kids coming tommorrow so i wanted to do some baking to feed the hungry hoards...not much food at this place at the moment:)

Happy Easter stay safe and have fun!

First pic...part of kids bathroom it is a 3 way one)

Second...kitchen

third ....will be my scrap room

fourth.... dining off from the kitchen

fifth....lounge and down hallway heading down to bedrooms, bathrooms and laundrey.

Busy week coming up!

Monday worked from 7.30 to 1.30 early knock off. Picked up DD from friends house. Visited Scrap shop, i needed some photo squares.,,,,,,im making some 6x6 pages for a project by Julie Stone....Off t visit granny at the hostel, home to get DS then off to the block t cut pears,,,,after that off to woolies for some chockie heehee home for tea dishes bed soon:)

Tues DH has a conference he has to speak at tommorrow for *arrive home alive* he has to talk aboutthe accident in which he broke his hip and his views, the families view and how we all coped with his hospital stay and life after he arrived home.
The diary i kept at the time was very insightful reading it back and they have used it as part of the project. HE has to talk in front of like 150 people and he is so nervous...poor baby!

Wed DS is off to his Airbrushing course, it is progressive and continues on from last years....he really loves it and has talked about it being a job for him later on so any experience is a good thing. He at the moment is passing his resume around town as he is looking for work.

Thurs is our audit day,,,,,,so before this we have to getback tothe block and tidy things up and make sure everything is shipshape...bit hard when you are in the middle of cutting fruit.
I have to be at work at 6.45am this day and will be working until 5pm! *Yawn* LOL

Fri i start at 6.45am again but finish at about 2.30 so that will be nice.

And all of this is a brief outline...we are also hoping to sign the bank papers and really begin to start packing.

Im a little superstitious and am not game enough to start packing too much stuff yet!

Broadband gets turned off on thurs too ready for the move so i wont be travelling cyberspace very fast so it is likely that i wont be about much.,......but no one will miss me i am sure of that!

For the girls i promised the pear pics to, i have taken some and if i can get 5 mins i shall upload them here for you to peruse:)
Cya and take great care charxxxx

Getting ready!

This weekend we have been quite busy. On saturday we went to the block and picked three bins of pears. Tidied up all the fruit that was left in the shed ready to be taken into Angas Park for processing.

Cleaned out the shed a little and gave it a bit of a tidy up all round. In the afternoon we came home and cleaned up the house, this included a little bit of packing.

Im still scared because the bank manager didnt manage to get back to us on friday as he was sick so we are still in limbo really as to whether or not we move....

Darrel keeps telling me that we are but im still scared we wont be able to afford the repayments and will have to live on mince and bread for the next 30 years LOL.......

I am afraid that i cannot get excited until we actually sign the papers and really sign our lives away hahaha. Silly huh!!!

Anyway we will know for sure this week. And i am also scared of letting the owners down and not being able to go through with it all.

Never mind....

Well sunday has proven to be a busy day.......i dont know how blogger will upload my photos so i shall do that first and preview my post the tell you about the photos.....

Okay top two are out near the outside dunny which we have gotten ready to paint, inside already painted, we have eede all along the fenceline.

Next two pics are our new house, they are using it as dining we will use as lounge area:) And continuing along from the chook yard, these are all our fruit trees, nectarines and peaches.

The pic with the blue drum in it is the chook yard, that got all cleaned out today as we are expecting 4 new additions to our pen...making total chicken tally to 9!

The next photos are of the front garden where there used to be roses but they have died. We are going to lay bark chips arund the whole garden before we leave and crusher dust out the front driveway:)

Next we played with *Shelley* she is he funniest bird...she has three balls with bells inside then in her cage and she spends alot of time chucking them in and out of her water and feed bowls.....well now you can put your hand in her cage and ask her to play soccer and she will hrow the balls to you or come and grab them and throw them about her cage....and TALK!!!!!! omgosh....she whistles chatters and cheeps all day long......so cute.

The last photo is dedicated to the moving of the tank. We had it on the other end of the shed but decided it would be better in the yard so we moved it around and will set it all up.

Here where we live we are not on town water and each year you have to divert to tanks for all your water needs while the system shuts down for maintenance for a week.

We also went around the outside of the house and hammered in more clouts to the hardi plank and are in the process of no more gapping ready to paint, how exciting....we have chosen our colours for the outside and a friend who is a painter by trade has offered to get the paint at cost price for us so that is pretty awesome of him:) We were pretty chuffed about that. We save quite alot of money that way .

I have started packing just a few things...like the dvd and video collections.

I was perusing Ebay last night and have bidded on an xbox for the kids, theirs has died anyway while there i got to searching and i have so much junk here to get rid off im wondering if i would get more for it on Ebay rather than a garage sale.....eg i have a dressmakers dummy here and they are going for about the $50 mark...hey id be happy to get that for it:)

I have kids wetsuits here i can sell, books, oh gosh all sorts of stuff!

Im keeping a mental list of things to sell at garage sale, things to give away, things to chuck. Oh i have heaps of For Keeps and some other scrapping mags im thinking of listing in lots of 8 i can get them in a $9.30 post bag.....any takers????

They are all in fantastic condition and i just wont have the room in my new place at all for them Boo hoo!!!!

On a sad note, it was two years ago yesterday since my sister lost her partner to snakebite. She rang me yesterday and we had a chat, she did mention it in passing i had said that i did remember.....the kids didnt rememeber, as kids dont...the two youngest ones (his) certainly didnt remember.....one was 7 and the other 4 when he passed away.

She is in a new relationship now and all is going well..the kids have settled well into city life and although they *apparantly* lol miss us they have settled in really well. Im hoping if we do move they can come for a visit:)

Okay this post has turned enormous and im sorry for that but i wanted to get alot of stuff down at the moment. Trying to capture feelings and thoughts about the move......i am really eager and determined to make it work......i told my dad and mother in law and their reactions were very discouraging......one said *oh Christ, why?* and the other just didnt seem to enthused........:(

So i for one are going to damn well prove em wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay on that note i really am off

Cya Charxxxxxx

BUGGER BLOGGER HAS CHANGED THE PHOTO ORDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well it is official!

Just a tease pic...this is my new kitchen:)

We are moving into our new house......OMG i cannot believe it.

We spoke to the owners last night and they gave us 2 dates either the 14th or 28th March, which is really funny because we moved into this house on the 22nd March 10 years ago!!!

We were talking about it last night and it seems that our life runs in cycles of 10 years.

Oh my there is SO MUCH to do...painting the inside and outside of this place, fixing up everything, getting an agent in to list it..our plan is to move and then paint here so there is nothing we have to move about or trip over in the house.......

We will be able to move some of our stuff to our block (which for those of you who dont know is the neighbouring property) We have 2 big containers, the kinds that go on the back of a semi trailer...that we can lock stuff in until we actually need it.

Oh my....i could hardly sleep last night for thinking about it...no second thoughts but still a nerve wracking night....oh its all going to be good!!!!