The Outdoor area continued...Before and After

Well we did it! 10 hours, great workers and lovely weather...check out the results!

Digging up the existing lawn.

The clay garden.

The lawn is out...finally

The sand is down and plants are in.

The finished product - Lovely!

My beautiful new garden.

The hard work has paid off!

First Project - The outdoor area

There is nothing like a beautiful outdoor living area for relaxing with a cuppa, entertaining friends or pottering around your potplants and herbs.

When we moved into our place, our outdoor area consisted of a badly painted deck, two small patches of dying lawn and a small path.

My parents are coming over to assist us this Australia Day to turn our outdoor area in to a suburban sanctuary, well not quite, but one area will turn into a garden and the other will be paved.

Mum is also bringing her high pressure hose in order to clean the deck and make it look more presentable.

It is Saturday today and we have lots of preparing and shopping to do in order to prepare for this working bee on Tuesday. I am very excited about improving our out door area. I cant wait to tend to my new plants and have a gathering of friends spilling over onto the new paved area.

Our list of things to do today consist of:

- Go to gym (nothing to do with the prep)

- Buy pavers from Bunnings

- Buying sand, concrete, soil and mulch

- Ripping up the existing grass and raking the area

Inspiration -

These are a few of my faveroute things...

I love this print, I was tempted to buy it for my husband for our 1 year anniversary (paper gift) jenniferramos.etsy.com

I am really into quirky brooches at the moment. This is a special fave of mine from an etsy store, it is close to my heart because it is my sisters shop. I love this petite silver apple. Ladyjamie.etsy.com

















I have had my eye on these for a while. I saw them last night when visiting General Trader and it reminded me how cute they were.

Pretty Pink Blouse

Things that have inspired me today:
A beautiful pink blouse.
I wish I could wear this tonight to a party I'm attending.
http://www.calamitykim.typepad.com/

This is me

I have never had the urge to write a blog. My husband has been doing it for quite a few years now and I often read them and laugh but never get the courage to actually start one myself. He is a very clever writer and writes very clever and whitty things about his life.

I recently discovered the wonderful world of blogs (a friend introduced me) and I have fallen in love with them a little bit and from there, I have been inspired to begin one.

I want a place where I can write and put up pictures and words that inspire me and the odd person that may stumble accross it.

So this is me at the moment:

At the moment I am very much into my new house. My husband and I purchased it in October last year and you could say I have been on the verge of obsessing over it.

I read home magazines all the time NB: this is not a good idea before bed as your mind will be ticking over and over and over with all the lovely things you have just seen. I am always on the look out for new decorative ways to improve our space and I cant help but look at other costly renovations and drool over how amazing it looks.

The thing is I am a full time nursing student so money is some what scarce and we are attempting to save for an overseas trip at the end of this year...so the bottom line is I need to think thrifty, which I have been blessed with the ability to do (thanks mum) so I will try and show you my attempts of this sometime.

Thants enough for now,
E