Junes Recap

So this post is mostly a photo dump of what I have been up to lately, I just haven't been focuses on gettting stuff up here, maybe I need to do another 100 Days Happy and then I will definitely get my posts up! We will see about that. I think that is the second post of June, better late than never! So lets recap my June!

So Dixon and I did some DIY in the house, our spare room was slowly just filling with clutter and he really wants it to start to look nice, I am not too fussed by having our spare room look good just yet, I mean we don't have any planned house guests as of yet... Anyway it was still really nice to accomplish something, though it was gorgeous outside and I really would have rather been working outside than in. But you can't have everything!

Caryn's friend came over with her friend, so I got to show them around a little bit, and we went to Mary Kings Close, and she also brought with her a fantastic Care Package from my lovely sisters. Which included Tim Horton's cappuccino mix, which I am having right now, Lego, an excellent original drawing by my niece and a picture of the mentioned niece, as well as a hand egg beater! The beater would make sense if you knew the back story. Anyway we had an excellent day out, though I probably talked to much, I always forget what I know about places if you were to ask me, but seeing them and walking down the streets it all comes back. So hopefully I didn't talk their ears off.

An thus ended the Lego drought of 2014, well actually Dixon, the best husband ever, also surprised me with some Lego, I came home from work one day and there at the top of the stairs was ECTO 1 the new Ghostbusters Lego set, and let me say I was ecstatic!  

Summer is really here, and it seems to be staying, fingers crossed! Which means lunch in Princes Gardens, bees on flowers and relocation of large eight legged visitors from the house, he was huge!!!

And as well as being productive in the house I have been a bit productive with my drawing and painting, here is a new one from the semi sort of series of landscape style drawings I have been doing, and I started painting the first one. I like it in the Black and Grey, but I think that I will probably still paint it in colour. Still deciding. 

And so that has been my June, its been pretty excellent so far, all the ups and downs you would expect from me, though I have mostly just highlighted the ups here, to recap the downs, the DIY went well except for one bit fell off, but thats totally fixable, so we will hopefully get on that soon, I applied for a new job, but unfortuantely it was given to someone else after an extremely successful trial, but I think that I'll be ok and hopefully I will find another opportunity, I think thats all of the downs, so lets end on an exciting up! Tunnoks Tea Cakes are vegetarian! I had my first one this week haha!

Bedroom Carpets, Check

 Everything is coming along so fast now a week ago we weren't sure when we would move in and now it is looking like we can move in this week, even from these pictures taken just a couple days ago, things are moving so fast. Now the bedroom carpet is in, and the bed has been built up. Even the cupboard/vanitey closet is finished, I jsut don't have a picture yet, because everything just keeps moving. Its really nice now to be able to see what we have, now that it is all coming together. The wardrobes are new, they are a bit bigger than the ones we got off of Freecycle, but I don't need to sand or stain them, so it is kind of worth it, plus we will use the other one in the spare room.

 

 

So even more than this has changed, we were painting the kitchen yesterday, and Gordon papered  the closet in the bedroom, and its all coming together. I met Hayley for a drink and some lunch in the afternoon and you wouldn't believe all they had finished while I was gone. On my way home, I walked and found a new bathroom cabinet, so missing the bus was totally worth it. That should do way better than the one we have, I will have to remember to take a picture of the bathroom, the way it is now. We aren't planning on doing it up just now, but in the future it will be good to have a reference of what it used to look like.

Can't beat a good find!

I am going to head over today to hopefully finish up the kitchen, get the ceiling finished and the walls done over with their final coat. Should be exciting. So thats all for now.

Sanding In the Sun

So a whole weekend of work on the flat, for me turned out to be a whole lot of sanding. You would think with an electric sander it would have been a breeze, oh but no, that bed frame had all the nooks and crannies in the world! For Gordon and Dixon it meant wallpaper and lots of it. The did the ceiling and some of the hall, and the hall is a pretty big undertaking, its basically two stories on the stairs and they basically got that finished, so its pretty cool! Its all coming together and now that it is getting a bit more finished and polished looking it is really becoming a home.

And here it is, the bane of my existence! It wasn't really that bad, but it did take ages especially the legs and that cut section on the front of it, on the Saturday I didn't use gloves to get into the cracks and it probably worked better, but I definitely have sore fingers and almost no nail left on my index fingers. But hopefully it will be all worth it. Plus it was beautiful out, so I couldn't really complain, I got an excellent sunburn on Sunday just to show how gorgeous it was!

And this is what Gordon and Daniel were working on, the ceiling is papered in the first picture and painted Daniels favorite colour, Magnolia! It was a bit hard to get a good picture of the paper, with the lights on or off and the sun! So you will have to make due with what ya got! I am pretty excited how it is turning out!

I couldn't help getting a bunch of apps for my new phone so here's a picture just playing around with some of them.

Before And After

So even though that sounds like this is the post where I reveal the finished project and our house is complete, it isn't but we have made some really good progress over the weekend, and with Daniel and Gordon off this week we should be almost there in no time. I am off Tuesday to Friday, so that helps too. So when we talked last I was grumpy about the mess of the floors the contractors did, well, Dixon has put down a subfloor and got rid of all of the squeaks and creaks, which means once we get the carpet we are prepared to put it down! Yay!

He has also started on the doors and made quite a bit of progress on the skirting(baseboards) and facings around the door. So its all coming together I am excited to see what they have all done today, as I am at work today.

When I get home I will get the exciting job of cleaning the kitchen or perhaps staining the skirting, I would prefer the staining, but either way I think I will get the job of cleaning the kitchen.

Dixon even trusted me to use his new sander! It was a total workout for your arms! I thought it would be a breeze, but it was definitely easier than manual sanding.

All of the old nails from the skirting needed to come out so that was another job for me, most of my jobs involve shooing me off somewhere out of the way where I won't damage anything and Dixon and Gordon can get on with their work, case in point, the next few photos, but I am pretty proud of my sheds and how they have come up. I thought they were rubbish old ones, but a lick of paint and they look brand new! So I cna't complain, I got to be outside and I did something that needed to be done. I didn't think the paint would make much difference to the backyard gate, cause I thought it was horrible, but it looks so much better now. Its a shame I didn't take a before picture but I did in an earlier post.

I must have proved myself with the sander because I got to use the saw to cut down some of the conifer that was leaning on the shed so I could paint the side. I did have to assure the I had throughout my youth built many a tree fort and have indeed used a saw and other such construction implements in my time before I was allowed to use said saw. But it was nice he was concerned and only slightly reluctantly handed it over with bits and bobs of general safety advice.

The conifer in question is pretty dead, so I might have to do some more demoliting! Whooo!