Sutra: So Shiny!

One of my jobs in this enterprise was to pick all the fittings. Apparently I like chrome! We ordered most of our stuff from reece.com.au. If I had my time again I probably wouldnt use Reece. We will be getting out final little things like towel rails etc from Robert Ferguson in Launceston. When we ordered from them they had our stuff in after only about a week and they were so easy to deal with and gave us a call as soon as we could come in and collect our stuff. Reece on the other hand... Well we waited about 3 weeks and didnt hear anything from them. When we called we found out that they actually had most of our order, but no one had notified us. They were also missing a few things. Then we have been waiting another week or 2 and had to call them again to see if the rest was in and they didn't even know what we were still waiting on! So I had to check our quote against what we actually had and email them to say what we were missing. So, yeah. Annoying! I am happy with the stuff i got from them, it's all just lovely, but i am annoyed at having to constantly chase them!

Our shower rail is a nikles shower rail from reece.com. It's so shiny! It has a great flat head which has a mirror surface on the back, which is good so I can check for mascara residue!

The taps for our bath and basins are from the Phoenix - Kubus range also from reece.com. I love the squareness of them! Very much like our house!

A Mizu 1700 Gooseneck tap for the kitchen, also from reece.com is what we have for our kitchen. It's soooo pretty! I can't wait to start using all my nice stuff!

Mizu kitchen sink. Its a sink. I dont really like the draining racks in most sinks so this one has a nice neat and minimal draining rack.

This one is a little different, its a Vitra - Piu Due squarer bowl basin from rodgersellers.com.au unfortunately I don't think they carry this basin anymore. It's huge! Which is good so I dont splash water everywhere... Or thats the plan anyway.

These are our main light fittings. They are called Surf lights and we got them from casamonde.com.au which is located in Hobart, Tasmania. They are just gorgeous on the wall, very simple but they light beautifully! I really didnt want ceiling lights or down lights. Down lights are a little overdone nowadays and use a fair bit of power and ceiling lights are a bit boring! So wall lights it is!

So there you go. These are the fittings we have and they are lovely!
It's ok to be jealous.

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Sutra: Painting finished!

This is how i celebrate finishing painting and the first early night in months!

Ok so its pretty boring... But I also plan to paint my nails.

Sutra: The Chosen Colour

So this is the colour we have gone with.
It's called Vanilla Quake 1/4 which somehow looks kinda pinkish when you compare with white but is actually a more beige-y colour. Oh well poor J now will be living in a girlyfied house!

Yep, so you cant tell at all what colour it is can you?

Sutra: Painting Progress

Well....
Painting is coming along quite nicely thankyou very much! As you can see our house is looking very white with a slightly yellowish cast to it! The undercoat is slightly yellow, which i dislike. I also dislike painting the undercoat on with a brush around the edges. Its a very very thick undercoat, kinda the texture of clag glue, or custard (:-S). So its a pain to paint on. Rolling is not so bad because with a roller it spreads much better!

Hallway

Master bedroom (my room!!!!)

Hallway from the other direction

Sneak peek at our super awesome fittings and stuff!! Toilets and sinks and taps and stuff! Yay!

Sutra: Going back in time

This is what happens at the beginning of spring. All these lovely flowers come out and make their home at the block! I loved the justaposition of the lovely little purple flowers with the barbed wire, these flowers were growing in a few places all down the fence. They are probably a weed, but they look lovely!

My cute little car is nearly a 4wheel drive! It made it around the back of the house, which is no easy feat!

This is my desk at my new work the first week i started! Very interesting huh...

Another pretty view of my house for you to gasp at its lovelyness

My car before the little silver one :( got stolen and burnt! Of all the bogan things that could happen. This pretty much tops it all!

Snow on the mountain in winter

More snow.

This is how cool people put up plaster! With great difficulty in fact! J actually welded up this special plaster hoisting device on to an old hospital bed!

My first trip in my new little car. Yes i took this picture while driving. Dont tell me you have not done the same!

My last day at the old office! And my biiiiiiig bag i was given by my old boss! I am in fact trying to fit inside the bag. I mean, thats what you are supposed to do right?

My old work view! Just had to show you and also remind myself how lovely it was!

So thats it. I am actually rushing as i am off up the block now!
Using a new app (for me) called draftcraft to edit this post. It has a few failings...

Sutra: So... What's up?

I have not posted in a million years! Sorry about that... I just was not feeling it!
This is what's been happening lately. Including getting a new job which I love!
Plastering our house... Which is not fun at all! You should all know this and then don't do it! It's messy and dusty and plaster dust is hell on hair!!!

Lovely flowers from my work colleague as a thank you for doing her makeup before a super fancy awards dinner we went to with the other 'corporate office' staff

Me doing my best impression if a gypsy... or something. As I said, plaster is really really bad for your hair. If you like dry shampoo, you might like to get a little bit from a building site and try rubbing it in your roots... or not. I will let you decide.

A Hallway... Amazing yeah? I think the last post I did was back in April and maybe we just had the timber studs? Well look! Now all those studs have plaster on them! Way big improvement

This here is the dining area. See a fireplace on the left right there? Thats where we can cook sausages and potatoes. (I sanded this whole room and now I have to paint it. Envy me at all?)

Breakfast with some girls because one of said girls (the one on the left) was down for a few days from a place which will remain unmentioned, because she doesn't like it! Mine is the biggest!

This is the sexy J having a nanna nap. He can nap like nobodies business. I on the otherhand cannot. It is one of the great mysteries of the universe as to why I cannot sleep during the day, in a car or just about anywhere else.

And thats all I have for now. I dont want to overload you on my first blog back in ages with my awesome boringness. I will save that for next time. 

You can thank me via twitter - @kamachameleon0

Sutra: Beige....

I am not a fan of beige really... But seeing it on our house looks good! Because you know what this means? It means that out house is very nearly water and wind proof!!!! eeeeeee!

See how fab it is looking! Admit it, your jealous!

Sutra: Outdoor Walls and Floor

Well, I haven't been around much lately.

Thats because every waking moment when I am not sleeping or at work I am at the block.

As you can see we have been busy! You will notice that we now have decks which you can actually walk on! Great huh!

We have actually also done a bunch more cladding since, and seeing as J will be working his cute butt off over the 4 day easter break I bet that we will have a bunch more done.

I will assist by eating left over chocolate and endeavoring not to distract him from his purpose by whining at him every 10 minutes that we should be going to the beach... Hard work.

Aside from the necessary I have also recently been reading alot. Which though it may sound like a fine thing to do. When I read it becomes like an obsession so much so that I don't sleep because I am busy making up plot lines in my head and I sneak peeks in traffic, while driving, while at work and where ever else I can find 10 seconds.

I read The Hunger Games, I didn't like it (don't kill me). I didn't like the way it was written especially the second and third book. I felt that the author didn't make full use of the characters. I felt like the used them as a scapegoat so she didn't have to write about stuff she couldn't be assed to expand on. I am probably being way harsh. Truth be told I was in love with them while I was reading them... Then about halfway through the second book I started getting annoyed.

I also read this series by Jennifer Rardin. Completely great and funny. Then I started reading these books by P.C and Kristen cast, The House of Night series which is pretty good. Then I came across the Tempest series by Nicole Peeler and I super giggled at these. Now I am reading Evermore by Alyson Noel. Which I am not yet convinced I am enjoying. It's very ponderous. See a theme? Yep, cos I find the name of a new series while I am looking in iBooks for the other authors books. So I will continue on with this theme for a little bit longer until I run out of decent stuff to read. (OK so it's not all that decent. Don't judge)

Now that you understand I am completely and totally nutso, please enjoy this sunset

Sutra: Workplace Safety

We, at 'the block', are incredibly safety conscious. Just look at this excellent ramp we made in order to carry the windows into the house! (Just don't step on the loose ends, K?)

Below is what it looks like when you have windows in.

Its a wicked feeling! The frames are a colour called Monument (a dark grey w a slight green tinge) I am really happy with the colour I think they will be great with the colours we are planning to paint the interior and exterior of the house.

The below picture is completely irrelevant to anything... But I liked it cos the birds are loving resting on this radio tower!

They were seriously all the way from the bottom to the top and just everywhere. When I jumped out of the car to take this picture it was a real cacophony of bird tweets.

I very much like birds...

Sutra: The Big Blue Box

Well, would you look'a here! This here is a big blue box, with added windows!

So I guess you can see that we have wrapped our house in sisalation (blue stuff) which is very exciting because it really gives you an idea of what our house will feel like from the inside (plus shiny-ness)

This is a picture looking up our hallway towards the master bedroom before the windows have been pulled back

This is after the windows have been pulled back! Wow so much light! Yay!

And this picture here is of the walk in wardrobe, ensuite and bathroom!

[It's quite difficult to tell the difference but the WIR is the first room in the right of the image. The ensuite is in the middle (door to ensuite is in the left of the image) and you can also see the bathroom (look for the wall joists which separate the ensuite and bathroom. {all bathroom floors are white cement stuff})]

Ok... The point is... Check out how awesome my walk in is going to be why don't you!!!! Jealous yet?

Yup, so aren't you glad I shared this update with you :)

Also, I have tomorrow off. Ha!

Sutra: Where did my weekend go?

We of course spent much of it up the block. But thankfully I had a chance to do some fun things too!

I had Friday off to help my friend move house. Mostly because I wanted to have a sticky beak at her new house, but also cos I am a nice person. Here is a picture of some boxes. I moved many of these.

We had a productive weekend up the block with. As you can see from the image below the external frame is now all finished. The linkway was the last thing to be done. Now we have started on the parapet wall before going and doing the internal walls. (parapet walls are kinda annoying to explain but its basically a wall on top of a wall... You will find out more in the future when we are finished working on them.)

On Sunday morning I went strawberry picking with my sister and her boyfriend. And treated myself to this tasty tasty ice cream. mmmmm yum!

Unfortunately we were not actually allowed to pick the strawberries! Because they were having a rest day to ripen up after being picked almost clean over the past few days :( So instead we picked raspberries! Very nearly as good!

This little guy had made a home in our stacks of timber. He could not stay there lest he be crushed by falling boards. So I had to relocate him! Cute huh!

Beautiful sunset in the afternoon at the block! (one day I may actually have to start calling it my house...)

So what did you all get up to??

Have a good week

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