Just a few house shares

Hey all how have you been ? Me well I have been busy being the short apprentice helping Dan with our house, and am happy to say this last few weeks we have busted our clackers but are finally noticing the hard work we have put in.
This month has been so busy,we have worked to all hours in the night just to progress more with it.
It is coming together so well. There have been a few things we have had to compromise on such as flooring  :( i have been wanting wide floor boards for so long now and was told this week that if i wanted the wide boards in the timber i wanted then i would have to wait over 6 months to get them. There is a shortage all over Australia for the boards that i wanted .... boohoo to me so i am getting the normal size boards, never mind i guess..
I am sure they will look lovely any way.
The other thing we most probably will have to change is the tiling in our en-suite, Dan was so good to finish everything in that room including the cornice and MR tiler tells me now that because the cornice is already in place, the tiling will look dodgy because cornice can warp the walls in some places and by the time the tiles reach up to the cornice some parts of the tile will be sticking out more than the others :( so again we have to make the choice whether we rip the cornice out and wait till he tiles or just have a half tiled wall  DOH ! what would you do??


Here are a few pictures of the work we have been doing in the last few weeks

The two top pictures is the extension of the lounge room. You can see where we have extended the house, where the carpet stops and you can see the particle board ..
Bottom photo is our room , if you walk through the door where Dan is painting you will walk into our room and en -suite, I can't wait to be sitting on our verandah in the mornings after we wake up .  Lastly the bottom right photo is Dan again sanding the roof , poor bugger has had sore arms these last few weeks.  This guy truly deserves a medal, he is one awesome guy.

Do you like my front doors??

During the school holidays my girls and i have been getting organised and having a few spring cleans, their rooms were a total disaster, we spent two whole days doing a room at a time and am pleased to say they have kept them spotless since, One of the things i was so annoyed with everyday was our middle draw in the bathroom which housed our hair bands and elastics, well everyday without fail i would pick up lots of hairbands off the floor (or nag my girls to pick them up)  because a child has wanted the hairband that was down the bottom of the draw, and usually they would get that hairband but not before all of the top hairbands would fall to the floor. They seem to be incapable of picking up behind them so i was left to pick up the mess .. So after searching pinterest and chatting to a few friends on facebook about my hairband disaster a friend showed me this idea.
I scored the frames for 50 cents each at a garage sale, they were painted up by my girls and totally transformed into a really useful hairband holder LOVE IT .. Now they have a pretty hairband holder hanging in their rooms and guess what!!!  I have a middle draw that only holds hair brushes yippeee Happy mummy :)

My last share for today is this gorgeous Willow Tree angel that my mum bought me. She is an angel of healing and compassion , she is holding a little birdy in her hands.

Mum  said when she saw it she needed to get it because it represents me, over the last couple of months i have been fortunate to save a few baby birds that have been thrown out of their nests,
One bird (A little sparrow) in particular stole our hearts, We called him squirt, We saved him when he was only a day old, he was just beautiful and we had decided that he was going to be a part of our family because i had researched and found that if a bird has been hand raised from birth then they will have a tough time making it in the wild EEKKK!!

After looking after him for a few months and had got him to the stage where he was eating by himself ,my Daughter got him out to have a play with him, which he looved ..she did not realise that the front door was opened, and he flew straight out  
I was devastated  :( and worried that he would not ever make it out there in the big wide world
He was like my little baby, feeding him every hour, taking him to places with me because i needed to feed him often , well the little guy and i had a nice bond. But the universe told me that he was a bird that was meant to be in the wild and not in a house ! so off he went, I look out for him every day and in fact i am pretty sure he came to visit us the other day while we were having fun in the pool, so i am feeling a little happier knowing that he survived the big wide world and that he can come and visit, i really hope it was him ..
So when this parcel came the other day it warmed my heart. Thanks Mum xxx

Well i guess i have chatted a bit too much here today, thanks for reading.
Enjoy the last couple of days of school holidays if you live in NSW.
My girls go back on Monday, I really don't want them to leave. We have enjoyed everyday of the holidays ... Bring on Easter i say !!
Bye xx