A New Year, A New Challenge

2010 is here, and with it, I have decided to challenge myself.

A friend did a post entitled 'Has blogging died?' and this got me thinking. I admit to being a naughty blog reader, in as far as not clicking through to leave a comment, due to the ease of Bloglines, but I aim to improve that in the coming weeks and months. And I also admit to missing the comments that use to come with regular blog updates. And as far as I'm concerned, facebook doesn't cut it over a blog - not for me anyhow :-P

Something about a post made on The Craft Blog hit the spot for me. The blogger is keeping a journal entitled "365 days of Awesome" to document her year. I LOVE this idea - not only does documenting the everyday appeal to me but so does the word 'awesome', as my 4 yo uses this word all the time, and it cracks me up.

So this is my self-imposed challenge : My 365 Days of Everyday Awesome.

2010 looks to be a year of variety for me - we are still renovating though nearing the end, bub #3 is due mid April, I've just gotten a new camera so will be learning & playing with that, I am still loving art & crafting - scrapping, knitting, crochet, sewing and I hope to add onto that with acrylic painting on canvas, I am trying to make the most of my new kitchen with cooking and trying out new recipes and of course there are friends & family to spend time with.
I hope to post daily, as much as possible, and with images, as much as I can. A visit to a pc shop tomorrow should help me with the latter :-P

So to start off - today's everyday awesomeness...
Cooking side-by-side with my hubby in our new kitchen - DH attempting Sticky Date Pudding for the very first time, and me attempting Nigella Lawson's Banana Bread (found in this book) for the first time too. We've decided that we have to try out a new recipe everytime we have people over for dinner - tonight the test subjects, um, I mean guests..lol...are Roh's parents.

Hope everyone is enjoying Day 1 of 2010!

My New Toy

My super generous Dad gave me his 400D Canon Digital SLR on the weekend (he'd upgraded) and I am so excited. I've taken quite a few photos but need to re-install my Photoshop onto my pc to play around and resize before sharing. I also realise that I really, really, REALLY need to read the manual to get a better idea of what this baby can do. Tips are appreciated too :-P

Hope everyone is keeping safe x

Alannah's New 'Do

A couple of weeks ago, Alannah said she wanted her hair cut shorter. So we gave her a couple of weeks to think about it, and yet she still wanted shorter hair. So Dan and I booked both the girls into the hairdresser's for their cuts - thinking it would be fun for them to see each other get their hair done.

Here's Lana's before shot :



And afterwards...

I think it looks really sweet and cute. She loved it at the hairdressers, but just a moment ago, had a little freak out about the length, but she told the hairdresser how short she wanted it. I'm sure once we buy her some super adorable hair clips, she'll be fine :-)

This is the shortest she has ever had her hair cut, since being a bubby, so a completely new look for my nearly Year 1 girl. She looks beautiful.

Jude's Room - Pre-Carpet

Carpet was just installed over an hour ago, but it's pretty gloomy here, weather-wise, so will take a photo of the new flooring when the sun comes out again, maybe tomorrow.

Denim Blue Walls - Jude's room

Last week we started painting the walls of Jude's room - I finally found a blue that I was happy with (am very fussy..couldn't be too babyish, or too purple/blue, or too dark..lol). I wanted a mid denim blue, so really a blue with a tinge of grey in it and the lovely lady at the paint shop mixed up a colour just for me, so I have no colour name to give you unfortunately - it's just a formula on the paint tin :-P but at least it's original!

Here's a shot of each of the kids having a go of the roller painting, before I shuffled them out of the room to play, while I got stuck into it. I'll be doing second coat today.

Then just got to do the windows and skirting, ready for the carpet, which is being installed tomorrow - yay!

We hope by the weekend we will move both the kids into Jude's room, while we empty out Alannah's new room and get working on that.

Fun, fun!

(Quick note - all recent photos on the blog have been taken on my mobile phone, due to major computer issues and lack of access to our camera's software - apologies for low quality of images and lack of editing!)

Shiny New Floors

While we were away in Merimbula (a couple of weeks ago now) our lovely spotted gum floorboards were sanded and polished...and we just LOVE the resulting look. In this pic, you can also see our mushroom grey wall in the living area too...it's all starting to come together now.

Coming Soon...

Just a few quick facts :

Baby Boy Ingram

Due : 18 April 2010

Currently 20.5 weeks pregnant

No names decided on yet

Kids very excited, as are Roh & I. Lana a little disappointed he's not a baby sister, but is coming around to the idea.

xx