i love new camera lenses!

For my birthday Benny bought me two camera lenses, a 28-80mm and a fish eye. He always knows just what to get me. I've known for a long time that i wanted a new lens, but had no idea what lenses did what. Benny asked me what i wanted it to do and did all the research to figure out what lenses would suit me best. Isn't he just the greatest!

Ive been playing with the 28-80mm all week and a package slip for the fish eye arrived in the post this morning. Me and the boys i look after, excitedly wandered to the post office (me, excited because of my package slip, them because they knew id take them to 'pay gwound' afterwards)

Once id picked up my new favourite toy we all headed to the playground for a play

This is the main reason i wanted these lenses, to be able to take pictures inside. The 50mm (very zoomed in lens) that i had just didn't cut it!

I've wanted photos of my home, as i know we wont be here for too long (saving to buy a house) and want to have photos of mine and Benny's first home together as i know they will be special to look back at. Just like i love looking back at my old bedroom.

This is my kitchen/dining room area

The view from the kitchen of the dining area/kids play area. Look Oma, I'm still appreciating the roses you gave me from your garden on my birthday (most of them are a little dead now though but ill keep them a little longer:)

Our (messy) lounge room

My craft room doubles up as the kids sleep room, here it is set up as sleep room. Pics of it as craft room to come (when no ones sleeping there!

green

just a bit of green to brighten your day, ah, isnt it nice! did i mention i love green? and on a happy note, i planted grass seeds and they are growing bigger every day

bohemian coziness

life just seems to be full of coziness and potential at the moment. our house has slowly over the past 3 months become a home. things have found their 'just right' places, the walls have been slowly speckeled with colour, photos, artwork, things that make us smile.
i can see that as the cool weather sets in the quilts and blankets will slowly make their way out of the wardrobe and soften each spot into further coziness. oh and dressing gowns, soft and warm. i miss my dressing gown over summer. i am a dressing gown person, around the house, out of the shower, out in the garden (even though it gets dirty and that means being without it until its washed and dry) when its cold enough i even wear it to bed. yes i get tangled but for that kind of coziness ansd warmth its worth it!

as we come into autum the world is full of promises that tomorrow will be even more wonderful than today. as the weather cools i know that i can start planting again! oh the excitement. the middle of a hot summer wasnt the best time to try to establish a veggie patch, their is still much room for improvment, and improve it wil-soon! i see with each new day more flowers opening and less closing and dying in order to help the plant survive heat. i can tell the plants are happy that its autum

we are cozy, benny and me. my days are full of comfort and bliss just to have him around (or know that hel be back soon) after being here with him just 3 months it feels like home just to be near him.

exciting news

guess who might be getting a job in port wakefield? the mother of my favourite-in the-world twins!!!! (or as miss aj likes to call them, curly and straight- because one has tight ringlets and the other dead straight hair)

in which case i would still look after them at my new house! would that not be the most awesome thing in the world?

my fingers are so incredibly crossed, please cross yours too for me

gosh the thought of still having them is exciting.

so anyway, it appears that photos of the house will be in dribs and drabs as i seem to get there and be so buisy cleaning, arranging, decorating, gardening, hugging benny in excitement and daydreaming of new house adventures to come (mostly the garden, i have some good plans forming:)

which will work well because the longer i wait to put pics, the more pretty the photographed space will be!

heres is a back view of the house

as you can see the most important piece of furniture is in, my craft table complete with paints, sewing stuff, pic of two nuddie beach bums (me and lil aprox 18 years ago. my favourite photo in the world, oh our free spirits..and free everything else he he ill show the photo when it and my scanner are under the same roof again)

im making a veggie patch behind the other plants. slowly scabbing rocks from a rubbish pile at the back of the property to make into a spiral pathway.

i am looking so forward to some sleeping over guests, my awesome cousin lil is coming for the weekend and then hopefully aj early next week.

i am also excited to have family day care visit next tuesday to let me know what needs to be done to approve the house for day care.

hopefully not too much. as much as ive been looking forward to time off work now that its so close im not sure what im going to do with out crazy fun toddlers running about and making the fun. and the money, i like that too:)

i am so in love...

with our new house!

so, i went prepared with two cameras so that i could have lots of pics there... only to realise that BOTH cameras were on low battery! so this is all i have to show off so far. ah weal.

here's our kitchen (its not that messy now, i promise lol) fairly lights were one of the first things to go up

we had such a fun time getting settled in. on saturday the owners were still cleaning and putting in plants out the back (which was disappointing because it meant we couldn't move in fri night as planned but it was so worth it as we have a garden now)

we were able to head over sat night, had friends over and had a lovely time hanging out in our furniturless house (nothin wrong with good ol fashion simplicity right) sitting on cushions on the floor and decorating with a few things id taken over.

heres our empty lounge room complete with sleeping benny. after these photos were taken we got lots of things from bennys and my parents brought some furniture etc. tomorrow is my day off so i will be going home (i smile every time say 'going home' now!) and taking plants for the garden and getting all things sorted.

id better go so i can get some more packed before kids wake up

i look forward to sharing more soon

we love it!!!!!

the house is absolutely perfect, we are so in love with it! we didnt see the owner, just had the key so i was unable to ask if i could take pics but i will show it of when were in it.
i so cant wait to move in, were going to move in within the next month, perhaps in two weeks or so.
i already have it all planned out where everything will go, the kitchen overlooks the 'garden' (lack of at the moment, but wait till i get there, that will change!)
there are cute blue and white tiles in the laundry(the first thing i noticed, they are so pretty i will almost want to do washing just to hang out in there. almost...) it is all very new and neat. best of all its only $160 a week because the owners are good friends with bennys parents

so in cellebration we planted lots of seeds in trays yesterday so by the time we get there they will almost be ready to go in the garden. lots of poppys, callifornian poppies and marigolds to brighten our days and veggies to get a veggie patch started (the back yard is HUGE! so i have plenty of space for the chooks to have a yard and as much veggie patch as i like!) i am so incredibly thankfull today!!!!!!