Our Living Room

It has been called to my attention that after all of our hard work on our house I have really only showed progress pictures of the living room and never the fully finished deal, I still have a few bits and bobs that I want to put up and add to but for the most part we have really turned our little home around and our living room really s a place we both like to be in and relax. So to the best of my ability I got some photos all realtor style, but I am really proud of how it has all come out in the end. Everything from the Batman, and Ghostbusters prints to the oak units, I just rally like how its come together, once I have the final bits and pieces up I will try to remember to post them here too, but for now, here it is our living room.

Nearly Here

Exciting things are happening, I am currently waiting for the text message that say that my sister is in Glasgow, and I can get on the bus and meet them at the train station in Edinburgh. So basically this is me trying to contain my excitement so I don't head into town super early and sit in the train station for two hours. And thus this is the run up to getting the house ready for Caryn and Jackson staying over.

The room took a lot of work and it was so worth it, it is so nice having a spare/computer room that is clean and isn't full of junk. I can't wait for the proper computer desk and BOOKSHELF to arrive, I'm pretty excited about the bookshelf. It really looks great in here too, I just need to find a comfy chair and get all my books in and I'll probably never leave.

So here's a whole bunch of photos of us doing the patterned walls, we did pretty good for doing it by ourselves! It was more work and time consuming than you would think to pop up some paper, Dixon's dad really makes it look easy. 

And what would a post be without pictures of Edinburgh

I had some pretty good soup this week, felt the need to showcase it here! And a wee spot of drawing to cap it all off. Hopefully I wont be too lax and I will share all the adventure I have with Caryn and Jackson Soon.

Working on the Hoose

Alright, when was the last time I posted something up here? Anything this month at all yet? I didn't think so, well, we have been a bit busy with a few different things, since Caryn is coming we have been working on the spare room and we only have a little over a month now to get it ship shape so that they can stay. But we have been making good progress, we now have two walls papered and the ceiling, so that means that today I get to do some painting. I was really impressed with Dixon and I because we ppapered half the ceiling ourselves! Gordon came over to finish the rest with Dixon the day after but we did get a lot done on the Saturday, so here are some progress pictures, and hopefully you will get more of this, this month because it should be done soon!

Another thing that has been pressing on my mind is the Scottish Referendum, which you probably noticed I haven't posted anything about, and not because I don't have an opinion, I do, and not because I don't get to vote, I do, but because it has flooded into everything lately and its probably one of the reasons I have not posted on here at all. I am worried about my status here in the UK right now I have Indefinite Leave to Remain, and with all this back and forth from both sides, you cannot really get a straight answer about anything let alone, what would happen with immigration. So, I do know what I am going to vote, and then we will just have to wait and see until Friday for the outcome. 

Hopefully everything will become clearer then.

On Monday the fog was so thick that you could not see the castle in the evening, it's one of my favourite types of weather and so I went a bit picture daft, but here's a few of my favourites.

And last but certainly not least, Dixon surprised me Saturday morning with a parcel, and it contained one of the best things ever! A Sega Megadrive, with so many games I love, it was brilliant, can I just say that I have been playing it loads.

Watercolour

Last weekend (so this was stuck as a draft for the past two weeks, I though I posted it so hopefully it all makes sense still. So rather than last weekend thing around July 22?) was a rather productive weekend, drawing wise and house wise. We had loft insulation put in last week and so we had everything that was in our attic down in the spare room and living room. So first things first, we went through all of the boxes, its amazing how much stuff accumulates up there in a year! I was amazing how much stuff we were able to get through. Then Gordon and I took the extra things away to the dump/recycling center, and Dixon got ready for his weekly skate.

So after putting the remaining boxes into the spare room temporarily, I got down to the important bits, drawing. Which I was extremely productive for the day, even though I managed to watch 2 movies and facetime with my sister for at least an hour, not to mention copious texting with progress pictures along the way, with Camille and Caryn.

I am doing a wee series of paintings, of which I have two painted and one drawn, and I am really liking them so far. I am using India Ink which I haven't used before and I am painting all of my lines, which I have tried before, but it wasn't as successful, it was a bit messy. But I am really liking the ink, it behaves a lot like the watercolours I am used to but it is a lot of fun. Each of the paintings will be places I feel are a bit like my home, so one is Canada, one is Scotland and the last is the Netherlands, so one for where I am from, one for where I am and one for where I have never been. (The scanner cropped the edges a little bit, there is a nice white border around each)

Also a wee bit about the house, we picked a wallpaper we can agree on for the spare room, which is exciting! So I really want to make a start on the spare room and get the finished.

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!