Good-bye Bella & Edward:(

I'm done. On Sunday night I finally finished Breaking Dawn! No more Bella and Edward or that pesky werewolf. It took me a while but in a way I'm glad I'm finished. I really enjoyed them but now I can get stuck into The Lovely Bones (which I've already started:))  Hope it's a good one! CAB watched the movie and said it was good but a bit weird. I'll wait and see.

In other news Mum came home yesterday and she's doing really well. She's staying at Monica's for a few days and then coming here. I'm really glad she's staying with a family that really cares for her:)

Recovering

Mum's operation went well and she is ahead of schedule on the recovery front. We have to wait a few more days for results so hopefully there will be no further treatment needed. While Mum was having her op my sister MK and I went for a walk around Prahran. It was fun. I hadn't been there since my days in college so it was good to come across some shops I'd visited before and some new ones I'd only seen on the web. I was saying to MK while we were walking that I wished I could remember where the Chapel Street Bazaar was. Well a few minutes later what did she spy across the road? There it was-just as I remembered it. I was wrapped. When I got in there I didn't know where to look. They have so much stuff. I could spend all day in there. We didn't have much time so I will definitely be going back there soon.

We also came across a shop called Portobello Lane that has a lot of cool jewellery featuring birds and owls among other things.

Aren't they gorgeous? I'm not a big jewellery wearer but these are hard to resist. Anyway-time for bed:0 I'll share some photos of our day in Prahran and some more links soon. Night-night.

Operation:(

My mum is going in to hospital tomorrow for an operation. I'm a bit freaked out but I'm positive that everything will turn out fine. I want to send her a big hug and a big, beautiful bunch of flowers just like these:)

Katrina Cottages

I was just flipping through a magazine (how unusual) when I came across an article about Katrina Cottages. These are affordable cottages that have been designed by a group of architects for people who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina. 

design by Marianne Cusato 

 Aren't they gorgeous? I would love to live in a house that looked like this. They are expandable, sturdy and pretty much hurricane proof (not that we need to worry about that here in Oz). I just love the look of them. The Lowe's Department store in the U.S. are now selling the plans and all the materials needed to build a cottage just like this. This looks just like the home I've been dreaming of....:) 

I did it!!!

Well I actually did it. I manged to post every day for a week and even twice on one day. That's pretty good for me. This is FUN:] This is just the beginning and I hope I can keep it up. I may not post every day but that's ok. I'm sure I can manage a few posts each week. There are no rules! I am obsessed:> -but it's a good obsession. In relation to another one of my obsessions-movies-I have just watched New Moon. Yes another Twilight fan (not a diehard one). I didn't like the first movie that much but this one was definitely better although I did have to put up with CAB asking me questions nearly all the way through it. Ahhhhh! Just because I've read the book doesn't mean I want to retell it during the movie. At the moment I have almost finished Breaking Dawn. I got through all the other books pretty quickly but this one I put down for a while and have only just started reading again. Can't wait to finish it. I'll miss Edward & Bella. It feels like I've been with them for ages -which I have. But now it's time to move on to something new. I really want to read The Lovely Bones. I've had the book for a while and now the movie is out I want to read it before I see it. Take a peek at the trailer-night night:)

2 Years!!!

I just realised last night that on the 10th of May we had been in our home for 2 years! I really like this place. Even though it's a rental and it's small with a tiny backyard it is cosy and I 'm trying to find some op shop pieces and furniture to add to it's cosiness. I need to find a hutch or buffet or something that would fit nicely next to my dining table. I've been scouring the local op shops and the cool site Gumtree. It's like an online trading post which has heaps of great stuff. Hopefully I will find something soon. In the meantime a girl can dream......

I just found these cool pieces on a site called Indigo Junction. Go and have a look if you like retro stuff. It has a lot of awesome furniture.

Anywho it's time for bed. I'll share some pics from our cosy little home soon:)

The Design Files

Good evening! I mentioned in last nights blog that I was obsessed with home decorating mags-well I'm also obsessed with home decorating blogs. While I was browsing last night I came across this cool blog The Design Files. It has photos of the interiors of homes taken by an Aussie girl named Lucy. I love taking a peek inside peoples homes and trying to figure out things about them and what they are like and Lucy's photos let you do just that.

Here's a peek inside Leila Sanderson's Melbourne home. I love this shot of the entrance as the mirror on the wall is like the one I bought at the Salvo's just recently.

There is also a link which you might like if you are crafty. A Californian website called NoteMaker has some cool rubber stamps and decorative masking tape. Take a look at it and enjoy:)

Magazines

Just the word magazine makes me happy! Silly aren't I? Oh well you have to have some simple pleasures in life and at the moment amassing a large collection of mags is one of them. I shouldn't say at the moment because since I was a teenager I've loved buying mags. I think I started with Smash Hits, Dolly & Girlfriend in the 80's and graduated to Cleo & Cosmopolitan in the 90's. (I think I still have a few of these mags lying around). These days the magazines of choice are That's Life &Take 5 which I swap with my mum, Super Food Ideas & Recipes + which I love, Creating Keepsakes which can sometimes be hard to find, Better Homes & Gardens & other home decorating mags I've become addicted to lately, when the budget allows and last but not least the newly discovered Frankie. Take a look at it! Soon I'll share some photos of my ever expanding collection. It's about to take over the house(Ha Ha!). Good night. I'm off to have a cuppa & a good read:)

Here's one picture I found to start with->

Hello!!!

Just a quick one tonight. Wanted to mention a few of the awesome food blogs that I love to visit. Two of my favourites would have to be Emma's blog From Scratch and Deb's blog Smitten Kitchen. I haven't tried to make anything from Emma's blog yet but I have made the Tomato sauce with butter and onions from Smitten Kitchen. It was good!!! But I cannot go without mentioning the fantastic blog The Pioneer Woman. Ree Drummond's blog has great recipes, clear and easy instructions to follow and Ree has a great sense of humour to go with it. Check it out:)

Kitty cats

I just added a bunch of photos of the crazy cat Mao Mao and her divine kittens to my facebook page so I thought I would share them here too. They are the most beautiful creatures and we have become very attached to them-which is so hard not to do! I can see there will be many tears when we have to give some of them away. Trying very hard not to think about that but they are 6 weeks old today-so it won't be long:(  One thing I am over though is finding a few little presents around the house and they are not the giving kind:[ Lucky they're cute.

I'm back!!!

Well I made it. Two days in a row. Not bad for me. Let's see how I'm going in a few weeks time (ha! ha!) Just a quick one this morning. Not much time before I have to make myself presentable for work and get the school boy on the move. I'll pop back later to liven things up a bit. I think some photos and some more links should do the trick. Bye-Bye:)

My first post!!!

Wow! I've finally done it. After months of reading so many awesome blogs and having a very long list in my favourites bar I have at last created my very own. I've never been very good at keeping a diary so hopefully this fun format will inspire me. I don't know who will read it but that's OK. I know it will help me remember things, get things of my chest and basically keep me sitting at my desk more than I do already! Well it's getting late and my eyes are hanging out of my head (nothing unusual there) so I'll be back tomorrow-definitely:)