Saturday, October 27, 2012

Home Organisation 101 - The Dining Room

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Yay, the dining room.
The dining room is just a part of the kitchen, it is a large room, but not as big Toni's

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Rona loves her crafts!

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All clean! I made a new table runner too :)

Grout Cleaning

Yes, very thrilling I know, but I found this post on pinterest and had to try to clean my grout.

I have a large kitchen/dining room as well as laundry, toilet and bathroom that are all tiled.
I started in the kitchen, and I must say the cleaner works! As my grout is just the standard grey stuff, it didn't come up like this
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But it came up nicely.
Now just to do the laundry, toilet and bathrooms........

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Mothers in photos

I recently found on the Huffington Post some great articles - "The Mom Stays in the Picture" and "Moms explain why they're getting back in the picture"

They explain how important for children it is to be able to look back on photos of them with their mothers (who are usually behind the camera than otherwise).

It has reminded me that I do need more photos with Rona. So I started today


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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Home Organisation 101 - Kid's Closet

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The Hanging space - before


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Set of drawers - Before


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Inside the drawers - before

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Other side of wardrobe - before

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Hanging - After

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Drawers - after

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Dressing up - after

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Other side - after, still needs work, but looks much better
I am getting new labels for Rona's drawers from here

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Photos

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Another self portrait

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This looks like it belongs in an "edgy" fashion magazine LOL

Sunday, October 14, 2012

The other side of the family

I recently posted a photo of Rona's cousins on Husband's side, and I managed recently to get a photo of the cousins (and my brother Daniel) on my side.


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Okay, so from left to right: Rona (2y 5mo), Samuel (7y 5mo), Daniel (22y 9mo), Ruth (9y 1mo), Charlotte (4y 9mo) and Ryan (2y 11mo)

We are lucky enough to live close to my family, so Rona spends a lot of time with her cousins. Aren't they cute

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Home Organisation 101 - The Linen Closet

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Really Must remember before photos..... here is how I have gotten it organised

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My linens
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Rags and chiller bags in the bottom

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Music and dance

Rona love music and dancing, there isn't a day that goes by that she doesn't request some "pretty music to dance to"


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we need to work on how to hold a ukelele, but she loves playing it anyway

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My Ballerina

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Monday, October 8, 2012

Home Organisation 101 - The Main Bedroom

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My untidy bedroom
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My bedside table.... before
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Wardrobe before

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Bedroom - After
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My organised and cleaned bedside table
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Wardrobe After
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Wardrobe After
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My sewing things - After (you should have seen it before, but my camera ate the photo)
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My glory box (where I keep all my sewing stuff) it was made for my grandmother for her 21st.

I really need to do something to the glory box, it needs something, some conditioning or something for the wood, so if anyone has any ideas, let me know :)

Friday, October 5, 2012

Home Organisation 101 - The Laundry

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Where our shoes, dusting stuff and my sewing machine live.

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My "lost sock" peg board

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Framed stain removal chart, and a pretty pinafore to brighten up my laundry

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Home Organisation 101 - The Office

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The before... the office is really Husband's domain

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My filing

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I decluttered and organised my books :)

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I shredded stuff and filed others, so I did a lot of work and it doesn't really show

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This is really where I do most of my work, in the lounge room. I have a mail/paperwork organiser on the wall and my computer handy

Potty Training

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Rona is just about ready for potty training (as you can see from this photo) :P
I have been reading The No-Cry Potty Training Solution by Elizabeth Pantley which has helped me to get ready to teach  Rona how to use the toilet.
Rona did a wee in the potty the other day, because if she wants to go without a nappy, she has to sit on the potty or big toilet first. And she did a wee, she was very proud of herself.

It is Spring, so now it is starting to get warmer, it wil be easier to do potty rtraining, and I am going to not stress about it, because she is a smart girl and if it takes a while, then it takes a while. (Famous last words, I know)

Monday, October 1, 2012

James' 1st birthday

It was recently James' 1st birthday party, and I managed to get a photo of the "cousins"

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James will be a big brother in March next year, and Grace (right) will be a big sister in about 6 weeks. Can't wait for the photos with the new kidlets.
I love this photo, they all adore each other and have a great time when they get to spend time together.