My sewing room and visit from Jake

My sewing room has finally taken shape with new shelving put inside the wardrobe to help contain my fabrics and other bits and pieces.

My nephew came for a visit and had fun helping put the shelving together using my new little electric screwdriver. After putting together the shelving we filled the day with a trip to the movies, a try out on the John Deere ride on mower, a few games of noughts and crosses. We finished off the day of making a ginger bread house and a roast dinner.

putting the screws into the backboards

concentrating to get the screws straight

lying down on the floor to get the bottom screws in place

trying out the John Deere ride on mower

at the movies

our ginger bread house

my first ever ginger bread house

very pleased with his efforts

oops.... its a bit fast to start off

having a game of noughts and crosses

the cube shelving

my sewing room from the door

I've filled both sides of the wardrobe :-)

another view into my sewing room

Our new house... the gardens taking shape

Things are happening fast with setting up our new home. The blinds were installed 2 weeks ago and the landscaping has begun.

I have put Roman blinds in all the rooms and wooden Venetian blinds in the bathrooms and toilets. They are a neutral colour which will let us dress the rooms in whatever colours we like with cushions, my quilts and pictures. Unfortunately by being a neutral colour they are hard to photograph but I've added a couple of photos to try and show them anyway.

Here are some before and after photos from day 1 and 2 of the landscaping work. It will be exciting to see how the garden takes to shape over the next few days.

front yard

the veggie tins

down the side of the house

from the lounge room door to the back fence

Our new letter box put in by Andrew

the back yard

the bob cat digger up everything from the side of the house

the truck unloading the reinforcement for the concreting

from the lounge room window to the back fence where the clothesline will go

from the lounge room doors to the back fence where the veggie tins will go

the bob cat in action

the back yard

the bob cat

the pile of clay moved from the back yard

the side of the house ready for concreting

Charlie checking out the wire reinforcement 

the white wooden Venetian blinds in the bathrooms

The lounge room blinds

the front door