Today was Mother’s Day. 

I got some special presents that the kids made.

And I got a special present that Michael made too:

 










I love my recycled red brick steps!!!

Oh so pretty – we have a patchwork verandah ceiling!! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See, I really did do it J - and it is oh so pretty, pretty, pretty.

Of course, will be even prettier when we clean it…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The guys are always working hard and we have our pantry lined too:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This 'dungeon' is looking great but boy do I need that VOC sealer – the chemical fumes from the Liquid Nails is Nasty!  Yuck, and I just looked on the tube – ‘vapours may cause drowsiness and dizziness” – sounds dangerous L.  Another lesson learned – check your products before use!!  Research now tells me it may have been possible to use a low VOC liquid nails.

Other better news though – roof and guttering delivered J

 

 

 

 

 

 

There sure is lots of it and just a bit scary to think how it will look, it is the first real thing that we had to choose a colour that we can’t change if we don’t like it!

The sirens are singing tonight J - or at least the wind is whilstling through the tin of our ceiling.

Ryan and Andy spent the first part of the morning framing up the gables, while Michael was out picking up the recycled corrugated colourbond that is our ceiling material. 

Not conventional, no.  Environmentally friendly being recycled, yes.  Character – with a capital C - it's got scratches, holes and dents - - the perfect imperfection of all that I love!  Cheaper than new – certainly for the material ‘as is’, hopefully still cost effective with the bit of extra labour to clean and cut it.

 



 









And, for my eye, very, very pretty!  This is what the strawbales will see – all the colours - we will see the pale grey that is the ‘inside’ of colourbond sheets – I wasn’t brave enough to have the patchwork visible forever (but I do love it so I will have the laundry ceiling sheeted as patchwork visible forever – got to have some artistic bits on show J).