just keep swimming

Literally, work work work, run out jump in pool, aaaahhhhh...... straight back into it.  no towels required, drip drip - dry.  its humid and hot. some days i think i smell like a goat.  how awful. luckily the chlorine in the pool sorts that out quite quickly.

I've tiled the fireplace! i love it. it still needs a surround to be made but i plonked it back together and i like the look of it so much.  open fires are terrible for heating and its better off blocked off - heat pump is on the way - much better option. but for looks sake - the new tiles are much better.










the bench top is in progress - its a big job when your making it yourself out of wood! its going to look great - its labour intensive though.

Ive started the first bedroom - officially that was supposed to begin next week when the kids go back to school - however, I'm jumping the gun a little as I'm an impatient kind of girl.  i love how its coming up so far - I'm really looking forward to choosing the feature wallpaper - who knows what will end up on the wall! i won't know until I've been into guthrie bowron and had some inspiration!

The panelling takes a crap load of glue - I've been using max bond which has been doing a great job -but costs $7 a tube - used about 5 tubes in this bedroom - really not so bad on the whole - but found out that bunnings do a box of 6 construction adhesives - for $6!!! no kidding! 6 tubes $6! when i went in there - usually i like to go to Mitre 10 - way better service - but the reality is - Bunnings is cheaper for a lot of basic stuff - i had to convince the woman that there was such a thing as a box of 6 glues - it wasn't until she looked it up on the website that she believed me!  I've ordered 5 boxes! yippee!! now thats something to get excited about.