A Tour of My House

Well the Optus man has come and done a double deal for us! I was only expecting to get the home phone connected but he's done the cable Internet as well! I'm thrilled and glad to get back to blogging as I have so much to share and many pictures to show. I'll start with our beautiful house!

The house with the driveway and our car (so you actually know that it's ours!!)

This is the path to our door - isn't it cute?! You can also see the rose bushes at the fence line. Only 3 at the moment but when the drought breaks I hope to put in 4 more.

This is the entry hall with Howard's beautiful painting. And the roses are from my garden!

This is our master bedroom, it's kind of long and skinny.

This is MY study, I can't show you the picture of Tom's study/guest room cause it's too messy at the moment.

This is the lounge, I couldn't really take a photo that does it justice. It's a great room to sit in and the lilac walls have really grown on me. I bought some new cushions for the couches yesterday - 4 for $20, I thought that was a bargan. I put the colourful cushions on our new cane chairs we got for Christmas that sit on our deck - they look great there!

Then there's the dining room:

The kitchen:

...and the deck:

And I think that will do! I hope that you enjoyed the pictorial tour of our new house - please do come and see it for real sometime!

New Home

Well much has happened since my last blog and with no current Internet access at home (currently at the in-laws) blogging is rather difficult, the unfortunate thing being that I have so much to blog!

Here's a quick run-down of what we've been up to...

Went to Canberra for National Conference but stopped at the War Memorial beforehand to pay tribute to Tom's gran's brother and my grandfather's brother. Photos to come (one day...).

Had National Conference, was crazy, complete with fire evacuation at 1am on the last night - NOT HAPPY!

Packed up and moved out of old house, looked much cleaner and more spacious without all our stuff in it! Funny that.

Moved into NEW HOUSE (before settlement I might add - long story will fill in when I have more time). It's just beautiful and I can't wait to post HEAPS of photos but can't yet as I don't have the camera on me (and haven't actually taken the photos yet). Moving day was relatively straight forward and we were very quickly unpacked and settled. Have even taken our first trip to Bunnings to buy "things for the new place" can tell this is going to be very dangerous.

Christmas shopping today with Tom and Christy, was very straightforward and have a beautiful new dress (thanks Mum!) the shop assistant almost convinced me to buy two and I was oh so tempted but managed to resist - bring on the post Christmas sales with Tom at the Cricket for (at least) 3 days!

Okey doke, must get going, time to go home to our beautiful house. It's very hot today so we might even have to try out the cooling!!