So here we are

Hello!

Not too much to report on this weekend, we took it easy.

We finished off the cornice in the kitchen and we stored the rest under the house.

Just as luck would have it to get the cornice under the house Aaron had to trim the tree, which meant for him, remove the tree. He was pretty proud of himself. Now the house looks even more boring. I think we may plant a lemon tree in its place.

So that's about us, I also made some red velevt cake pops, totally not paelo but I wanted to see if I could make them and if they tasted half decent. Yeah they were pretty good, very sweet!

Oh we also met with our celebrant and filled out all the forms. So yep we are getting married...eeek! 

The lighting didn't get done, as as electrician had family visiting. So this Saturday is the day, fingers crossed.

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Pantry

Kitchen no cornice

Last bits of cornice up

Boring house, Happy Aaron!

Cornice stored under the house

Red Velvet Cake Mix - I'm sure the red food colouring is really good for us

Red Velvet Cake, next I smashed it all up and added cream cheese frosting to bind it all together

Cake Pop

mmmmmm

To go in Aaron's Brisbane photography book he is creating, sun set out the front of our house

I am creating a book on all the faces of Jackson...haha!

Where do we go from here

Well... finally a weekend where we can say we feel like we have accomplished something.

Yep we put up cornice in most of the house. The spare room, lounge room, hallway and half of the kitchen. The Master bedroom wont get done until we put up the frame for the cupboard and the spare room wont get done until we have done the bathroom. And obviously the bathroom wont get done until we start the bathroom.

So Saturday it took us all afternoon to do the spare room but once we had figured that out, you couldn't stop us. Well lunch with Lou and Joe stopped us on Sunday and then Racquel came over too. But other than that nothing could stop us.

So a little post today but wow the pics speak for themselves. To celebrate we went and got Baskin and Robins. Which was a big treat, since I have been trying to eat 100% paleo.

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Cornice, cornice everywhere

Cutting the cornice - Thanks Errol for the magical box

Always having a laugh on the block

Room without cornice

Back mixing cement. I thought my mixing days were over...

Putting cement on the cornice so it will stick!

First wall - tick!

Add caption

On to the next one

Fixing up the corners

Room one complete! SNAP!

Hallway

Hallway!

Yes I worked, just looks like Aaron did all the work.

Lounge - tick!

 

Kitchen and lounge

Aaron working the lounge beam

Woohoo!

I nearly forgot a pic of Jackson, this is how he slept the other night. While aaron was watching the tour I was getting cuddles from this one. haha so cute.

Another round

We feel as though we didn't get too much done this weekend. Just lots of odd jobs. But next week is an exciting one. We start the cornice and also the lights are going to be hooked up! YAY!

This weekend we went and looked at carpet as Aaron has decided for the bedrooms he would like carpet. We also checked out the mixer for the kitchen.
I continued working on the windows, I did the other side of the windows, I think the sun has set the paint into the windows, it was dam hard to get off.

We also went and added some grass to the bottom of the back stairs as we are completely over all the mud... Dam you rain!

Aaron continued working on the lights and added a fan to the bathroom, the ceiling looks all fancy. Pity about the rest of the bathroom.

Brad is here to visit in a few weeks, so that's exciting. I am also competing in another crossfit comp (team one, Aaron is still out cause of his back) on the Sunshine Coast (the same weekend we see Brad on the Gold Coast).

And then it's Aaron's bday, so we have a few things to look forward to. Woohoo!

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Arg decisions

Kitchen mixer

Bathroom lights and fan

And of course there was paleo baking. These taste amazing. Choc, coconut borwnies

ooo we also took Jackson to the dog park, there was an 'oodles day out' event. Jackson just run around like a crazy mofo

Fancy ceiling

Maste bedroom lights

On the 'tools', sanding the windows. OH&S is a real priory in our house

Windows

Mud pit

My car is so versatile - also carries grass

Carpet, wall colour and skirting. Looks GREAT! This is actually the lighter colour carpet from above...

Grass, just need a few extra pieces. Hopefully this works.

Let there be light

2 weeks off and I bet you have been missing me!

Well to be honest not that much has happened and we didn't think you would want to look at more photos of Aaron sanding, me cooking, and us painting.

Last weekend we went out to Ipswich to see my Aunty Thea and steal a few of her belongings as she is moving house. Poor thing has lived in her current house for about 60 years. It must be tough moving after all that time. But she will be ok. So we stole from Thea 3 old school suitcases, I am going to make one of them into a table to be a feature.

Sunday I think I spent the day cooking for the working week. Aaron plastered, sanded and painted some ceilings. I think he is becoming obsessed with the ceilings.

This weekend again was spent on the ceilings but this time Aaron was planning out the lights. They look amazing and really transform the house. So much better than the floros we currently have poking out.

I spent the day paint stripping and sanding back the windows, we have decided as a feature of the house we are going to have dark stained window frames and windows, but then have white architraves. It's going to be a painful job but I think the most rewarding as it will be a key feature to the house and its not very common. 

OMG so cute!

More sanding, Aaron's favorite past time

Installing the lights

Drilling light holes

Fitting off the lights

Kitchen light holes

oooo pretty

The start of my creation

Adding heat to melt the wax

Complete!

Probably should have taken a shot of it before I started

We tried every technique to get the paint off, paint stripper, electric hand sander, belt sander, "the renovator" and finally the dremel

Yep I'm wearing sunnies! It was bright!

My finished window, well until next weekend, where I will actually take the window off and do the other side and be able to get stuck into it.