Beautiful, inside and out.

I love Sundays, I love picking the kids clothes out for church the night before, actually taking time to choose what would look best on them. I love taking time to do the girls hair in bows and headbands and watching their Daddy do little mr's hair with hair wax. I love choosing what plastic bracelet or ring would look best with her outfit with little Diva and laughing at Missy Tomboy trying to choose which shoe she likes best. And on the drive to church I love looking back and seeing lovely clean faces and sparkling smiles.....


But for some reason as soon as my little munchkins meet up with their friends in church, the headbands come off, the shoes get kicked off next to a wall and hair comes loose, little Mr is even been known to take off his shirt, while they run around having fun, and although they are always beautiful to me even looking like little scragamuffins it would be nice if they kept their outfits nice or at least on, for at least a little longer..


 So this week as we were walking into church, I looked at my beautifully clean and dressed kids and I grabbed my camera and took a photo of them all outside church before they had a chance to run around with their friends so i could rememeber that at least at one short time my beautiful munchkins were dressed as beautifully on the outside as I know they are, to me, on the inside.

Travel girl

Playing along with Danimezza 

I thought I'd go on a trip to Europe, you know like the ones you see on a world less travelled? So for my big adventure a girl needs to look nice right? So here is my little european touristy outfit. I love it!! :)

My Mission Complete!!!

So yesterday I got the cleaning bug and went nuts on the kids room and playroom. It was great, I felt in domestic mum heaven, I was on cloud nine and I got a little cocky. I decided it wouldn't be that hard to tackle my Mount Everest, my office /craft / library / junk room the one room in my house that I usuallly avoid!!   - the mission was to clean and organise it. It will always be a storage room, its in the middle of the house and has no windows except one that opens to the lounge but I thought I could at least make it so it isn,t so embarrasing. 

So it took me all day but my junk room is finally finished!! Ok its not as classy as the other rooms and it will never make it into Better Homes and Gardens, but its clean and organised and at least now I can close the door on it contented : D





My Mt Everest before.







Finished!!



My Autumn Spring Clean.

I finally cracked today, I woke up, looked at my house and decided it needed to change - now. I've had enough of life getting so complicated and hectic so today was my day. So I spent the day sorting chucking organising and cleaning. It took me the whole day but I managed to finish the three kids bedrooms, family room and bathroom.

I've gotta say I'm a little proud. I didnt take before pictures, I really didnt want photographic evidence that my house could have gotten to that place :) But I did take a photo of my next big mission - to conquer the office/library/craft/laundry/junk room. You know that place where things go to die??? Well its next!!! I hope : P

So here's my after pics just so I can prove that there are times my place does look nice. :)





Playroom



Lil Diva's Room



Lil Misters Room





   

Lil Miss' Room



Linen Cupboard



Bathroom Cupboard





Can you tell I'm a little proud yet : P

But wait for it.....



My New Mission!!



One Day...

I love new, and different craft ideas, things that break the mould of the mainstream crafts, things that people exclaim on how unusual and clever they are and how unbelievably talented you must be to create such things...

 And one day I'm sure I will create one of those things :), but untill then here is the book I put my big idea inspirations of the things I dream I will make one day...




From Better Homes and Gardens

 


From Better Homes and Gardens

 






Cool Space For Kids by Sam Scarborough

 



The Unexpected Joys

We have a dear old car it puts up with the the rough way we treat it. But its one problem is it has a dodgy fuel gage it’s not usually a problem whenever the light comes on you get petrol as soon as you can. But silly me parked on a slope so of course all the petrol was sitting away from the intake. So sitting outside my hubby’s work with a car full of kids we did what any crazy family would do..

 We decided to go for a walk all together to go get more petrol. It was really nice being able to talk about each other’s day without fighting the TV or full mouths. On the way the kids found some wild flowers growing in the side of the road and made me a bouquet. I love moments like this, where we can find the joy in these unexpected setbacks…