Finally the PROPER big reveal..... Our House :)

Have you got your cuppa ready, this will take awhile, it's a big house,
c'mon then, time for a tour.

The Photos are all a mish mash over various days/weeks and are mostly 'au naturale' so brace yourself ;P

The Front (no?? really???)

Through the front door

To the left of the front door is the front room
AND the Perfect spot for my craft desk...........
now i just need time to use it! :o)

The Children's play area - it WAS our 'formal dining area (HAHA!)
but the afternoon sun comes through those blinds and *sniff sniff*
completely warped our handmade table with the dry heat.
It has been almost fixed.  But was very traumatic for Jamie,
so i didn't take photos of how bad it was to remind him more. :(

OH I am SOOO loving the packaging from our IKEA visits! we have made some awesome things from it all.
You can see their shop/puppet theatre. we also have the cubby house outside (on the side bar then and NOW photos) We also made a jellyfish out of plastic packaging for our vacuum box tortoise to eat! There are so many other things, but they are the best ones :o)

So next up, walking through the door opposite the front door is our lounge.

the door i was talking about is opp. the white wall.

see the space behind the lounge on the white wall?? it's real weird, it's a planter box with tinted mirrors ceiling height behind it. maybe if we PUT plants in it it wouldn't look so odd. LOL
Oh FYI, the children are all watching an AUSLAN dvd and are doing sign language, we are using AUSLAN as our LOTE requirement for the year. (LOTE stands for Languages Other Than English)

the door to the right of the tv is back into the front room.
and yes that is Jamie's beloved wobbly  almost level table

to the left of this space is the 'schoolroom', i'll get to that last ;P so forward ho through the 'blue' door is the L shaped hall to the childrens bedroom, and laundry and main bathroom.

Oh hang on, the kitchen

Heh heh Clairebear 'washing up' for me

not particularly informative, but really it's a pretty boring layout,
which doesn't work overly well? oven to the left, pantry
 and fridge space to the right. oh and door behind me to the garage.

 The Children's Bedrooms

this is was Kaytie's room, it's now Lily's and looks a lot different.

see what the darling "cherub" drew on her bed
into the varnish! I am now torn as to
whether we DO sand them back and re-finish them?

I seem to have left out Lily's bedroom?, but that was probably because she will get a "new" decorated bedroom for her birthday in 3 weeks. We have had a big bedroom shuffle with the girls, Lily is in Kaytie's room above, Claire now shares with Kaytie, and is in Lily's old room and Sophie now is alone next door to us at the front of the house. but anyway.....

This is Samuel's room, bet you NEVER would have guessed :)

It now also looks completely different, so
I will update you all after Lily's Big b'day reveal.

Now back to the very front of the house and off the front room on the right is to Sophie's and my bedroom which I also seem to have forgotton about? probably because my bed was unmade :), i did however get my ensuite, which opens up into the room... outside that screen door, is my own little "retreat" space - though it is very bland, looking at an empty garden bed full of dirty sand LOL

I think Sophie's favourite place in the house
is IN the spabath, no water, just her or with a couple toys.

and what is now just sophie's  closet room,

Sophie has her cot back now as we bought lily a new bed ($59 from IKEA!!! ) as part of her room makeover, but she(sophie) will have to 'tough' it out in the travel cot a bit longer as i'm going to makeover the cot too, i think i will give Soph a room makeover too for her 2nd birthday this weekend :)

So if we go back to the main living area, where the door to the patio..... oh alright i'll show the 'school room' before we go outside :)

It has 4 stages we are in stage 3 at the moment

1st stage - i.e the week we moved in.

ok it's more like the 2nd week we moved in, as the 1st week
EVERY box for the whole house was in this space!

2nd stage

3rd stage - where we are now :)




"au naturale"



This is after an afternoon of 'school', as i told the children we have 'started' already. Jan 5 to be exact Mwah ha ha haaaaaaa ;p I am still waiting for curriculum to arrive from various places as they have ALL decided and want to do more bookwork/schooly stuff this year, which is hard as i now have to find stuff for Claire to do which is similar but not the same, as there is only so much colouring in a girl can do, even if i tell her that's what she'd be doing if she went to  kindy :)

Do you see my rug! I LOVE MY RUG!!!!! it's my favourite and my best!

we still need a few tweaks before stage 4, but i will go through it all when we get there :) oh i'm excited :)!!

So if we turn around and go out the screen door behind us we will be on the patio.

This is at the very end of the patio (d'uh lol) you'll have to excuse our washing on the line, as if we turn to the left you will see the full extent of our yard, and at the end of the yard you will see the pitiful excuse of a clothesline provided with a 5 bedroom house!!

you see it up there on the shed?? how about a close up?

?????????????      Crazy, I guess the people
who put it in must use the dryer alot?
It doesn't even fit a single sheet across the width!

this is down the other side of the house,
my 'retreat' is right at the end at the fibro fence. :)
The children have been banned from coming down here
(mainly for the neighbour's sake ;p) there is also a
BEAUTIFUL frangipani tree down here in constant flower!

Well that's my house hope you enjoyed the tour, you'll have to have another cuppa now... and how about a choccy bikky or cupcake?? 

I will leave you with my "entry" photo for "mother of the year"!

You see her little arms;and nose;and cheeks; and legs; even the tops of her feet! :( (ps, she was dancing in this shot lol) We saw an AWFUL lot of sun yesterday and today, and guess who forgot everone's sun cream? everybody is a horrible shade of pink, but brightside is, no one will complain next time the sun cream comes out!!

As for why we saw so much sun and are so pink........ next post sorry, i have a kitchen to clean as everybody has gone to bed.

OXOXoxoxoxoxox

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