The day has finally come, I have a kitchen. After a lot of planning, waiting, reorganising, ordering, chivvying and lots of hard work on the part of the installers (Stephen and his Dad) the kitchen is in. We’ve gone for a Mid Century Modern brown tone for all of the cupboards as part of our modern/vintage aesthetic. I really wasn’t sure if the colour would come out as we have imagined but now it is up I love it. A…
I’ve never been a fan of white walls, they always seem institutional and cold to me. Plus super easy to get dirty, especially with two bouncing boys around. Nope, white walls have never been my cup of tea. Until now. Now these white walls are something else, something a bit special. These white walls are a canvas on which our family will paint our lives. We will colour them, hang pictures on them, live between them. The layers of plaster…
Like so many others we have been enjoying some blissful late summer/early autumn weather these last few weeks. Blue skies, warm days and stunning colours all around. I’ve watched our land go full circle, from Autumn browns to monochrome snow, the green and brown of spring and the verdant greens of summer. Once more we are turning to golds and browns, the colours of my favourite season. Sometimes I can’t believe the beauty I see around me, my heart…
Polished concrete. When Stephen first suggested it my vision was ‘car park’. But he won me over (along with groovy pads on google images) and so we decided to go for it. An eco friendly, low toxicity floor that will last for as long as the house gives it groovy ‘green’ credentials too; as well as the option to function as part of our heating and cooling systems fo the house. Plus, it just looks wicked cool. For anyone interested…
Sleep tight.
Today is my Mum’s birthday, her 60th. If there are words to describe the feeling inside my heart, they hide from me. I cannot describe my memories, or the hopes I had for this day. The joy we should be sharing now. I can only look at this picture of my beautiful Mama, pregnant with me and glowing. Her skin was like velvet and she always smelled wonderful. When she laughed, no one could resist her. We never wanted to….
This weekend the house has taken a really big jump forward, we have proper, bone fide, plasterboard walls! I can’t get over the difference this makes to the look of the house. The pictures below were taken at about 6.15pm which gives you an idea of how much light was coming in and being bounced around by the beautiful white drywall! Looking at the room boarded out (and noticing that Stephen is over 6ft tall but there is a lot…
First Grade has begun! After a year of ‘practice’ we are now really homeschooling. This week has been a great jumping off point and a tester for the materials I’ve been researching and gathering (with the help of my very knowledgable friend) over these last months. So far so good! This week we only worked for 3 days due to the Labour Day weekend, this was the perfect way to ease into our new schedule. Next week we’ll add history…
I had a bit of a homeschooling revelation over the summer, nothing too major, but it was a useful shift in perception. I realised that the only things I referred to as ‘school’ were more traditional activities like writing or working-on-spelling. I also realised that it was likely that I was building a perception in Huwyl’s mind that school is restrictive and boring, pretty much what I was hoping to avoid. So Cooking School was born. Alongside Science School, Art…
Despite being a holiday weekend we were as busy as usual, mowing, doing chores and checking out sheep. What’s that? Pictures of ridiculously cute sheep taken on a rainy day you say? Why I have just the thing. If you currently want to tuck a couple of these sheep underneath your coat and make a run for it then you are in good company. Put it this way, the children should be grateful that it was them strapped into…