little bits.

lev finished the second last side of the roof! no pictures though. can't be bothered. lev's been putting his hand to interior decoration and has made a few additions to the living room. The first is an old brass fire extinguisher found at the tip. He polished it back to brass, stuck some greenery in it. Then he stuck up some old fishing rods the fella across the road gave him.



brass fire extinguisher.



man decorating.

And we found an old chandelier at a garage sale. It's not really a chandelier, just a 3 light thing. Lev dismantled it before i could take a photo. I want to put it in the dining room when we've put our new kitchen in. i think it will look awesome.

eating dinner around our dismantled garage sale light.

Some other little bits.



abel in front of his new garden. he's growing
oats, quinoa, cucumbers, pumpkins, swedes.



my beautiful girls in their new locally-made dresses.

And to wrap up. Lev's working hard on the front gate so hopefully by next weekend we'll have a working gate that keeps the kids in. G'bye all.

gate those kids in.

We had a ball last weekend at our friends' wedding! That's us as glammed up as we'll ever be. Kids got babysat for the reception so we could relax and have a good night. Obviously not a good enough night because Lev was straight into hungover-power tooling Sunday avo. He must be getting frustrated with Illy bolting for the road so he's made a lot of progress on the gate out the front. Here's some pics.

lev dug the hole last week.

welded on some little bits for swinging.

big welder, little welder. (not sure if 4 year
olds should participate in welding)

pole in place. cementing still unfinished.



gate up.

 The gate is going to be covered in wooden palings and then painted to make pretty. We're thinking of welding a decoration to the pole as well. I'm excited. But Illy can still escape at this stage.

Meanwhile the roof remains really unfinished. Lev spent this afternoon removing the old tin off one of the smaller sides and he'll spend this weekend putting the new tin on.

And on a smaller note. Lev's been still at that stupid archway in the dining room. Stripping the paint. It's going to look nice one day.

And that's it for this week. Hopefully will have a new side on our roof by the next blog update. :)

Back from our little hiatus.

There's a few reasons we've not been blogging. Mainly because we haven't had a camera so there's been no photos to post, and no one reads a renovating blog without photos. We've also been pretty social lately, spending a lot of time with our buddies, bbqing, drinking and fishing and tomorrow we're going to a wedding (yay!). But we bought a camera so we're back!

Lev still hasn't finished the roof. A friend from NSW came and helped him do the front side of the house, so that's two sides done. We've noticed the difference with the extra insulation but because it's taken so long to get ridge capping, every time it's rained, we've had leaks down the walls. Not cool. We've got the ridge capping now, but Lev got sick so it's still sort of sitting around waiting to be done.

Here's some updates of what we've been doing otherwise.



lev's incredible productive vegie garden; zucchinis, snowpeas,
chives, pineapple, pumpkin, tomatoes, celery and...
cant remember anymore.







window seat where a linen cupboard used to be.
obviously there's no window yet.
and the seat still needs a lot of work.

 


stripping paint off our living room arches.
beautiful hardwood underneath blue, white,
green paint.




mabel monkey and hector giraffe, made for a fundraiser.