I've been slack!....

Yep. Slack. No pics but I can tell you that the whole house is now bricked and the brickie was there today doing all the window sills, so it might even have been his last day today! I will take some pics tomorrow!

xMel

Front finished, apart from under the windows! I love it! I'd say they're about just over half way through with the bricks. I must say I'm having withdrawal symptoms not being able to drive past every day!

And I'm afraid I will be boring you with baby photos for quite a while to come! Note the new headband that Granny just couldn't resist!!!


xMel

More bricks!

The front

Down the road side

Our sweet cherub pie!

A great effort from the brickies this week! Looking fabulous!

xMel

Back to the house stuff!

The brickies have started!!!! The colours in the bricks are great - even better than what I expected (from memory they look quite different from the display!!) Very happy indeedy! Pics are of down the left-hand side and the front (complete with 'Spiderman'!).

Little Chick is one week old today - god it's going too quick already :( and she's just had her first bath at home! Slept through the whole thing! She is a divine creature!!!!!

xMel

Little Chick has hatched early!!!!!!!

A whole week without a post - very unlike me - but there is a very good reason why - and here she is!!!!! Meet Lexi Rose Dianne Marshall - born Wednesday, 10th September at 9.20am - 4 weeks early - 5 pd 9oz. No idea why she came early; my waters broke at 4.30am that morning; I guess she was just ready to come! She spent three days in the Special Care Nursery, just because she was little, early, and couldn't regulate her temperature properly, but good as gold otherwise. We came home yesterday and have been nesting ever since - we weren't quite ready for her!!!! Daddy is proud as punch, biggest brother Jett is absolutely besotted with her and Kobe - well let's just say we will be keeping a very close eye on him when he's around his sister! Hopefully things will settle down over the next few months as we get used to having her around! As you can see, she's not the most photogenic baby in the world - and this is the best picture so far!!!!! Thankfully she is actually a lot prettier in real life - or could that be the mother in me coming out?! So there you go - pretty exciting news huh?!

House-wise, well, I couldn't really tell you what's been going on! I know the brickies weren't there last week but all the internal doors had been delivered. My little birdie told me that she saw brickies there this morning, so I have told Dave to go past on his way from picking Jett up from school, so I may post later or I may not!!!!

xMel

Brick preparation....

There was a little bobcat going busily along this morning! On arriving this afternoon, we found more piles of sand and sawdust had been put all along the front and side of the house. Lots of pallets of bricks had also been put around the house, ready for the brickies to come!

xMel

Here are the pics!!!!!

Here it is! The island bench, full frontal shot, and the ensuite cupboard. I didn't bother with pics of the bathroom or laundry ones because as you can see, our colours are the same throughout! Very boring I know, but I wanted to be able to put any colour accessories in each room!

My only issue - which is entirely my fault - is that the white of the overhead cupboards is a fair bit 'whiter' than the benchtops - they look almost creamy in comparison.

So hard to tell when you are only dealing with those little sample pieces. But not much we can do about it; Mum said she couldn't tell; could be she was just being polite!, but hey, I can definitely live with it! I love it, love it, love it!!!!!

xMel

Oh my god - I just have to post early!!!!!!

Did the usual drive-by this morning, no one there so I thought, "Beauty, I'll quickly race in and check out the lights"! Ducked in through the study, saw the hole in the roof for the light, yey, but noticed a wooden ramp on the floor leading up over the split level. "Hmmm, what's that for?" I turned the corner into the main family area - bloody hell - we have a KITCHEN!!!!!! Yes, a KITCHEN!!!!! And the cabinets are all in the ensuite, bathroom and laundry too!!!!!! Oh my god!!!!! How excited was I?!!!! It looks fabulous!!!!! Damn it though, I didn't have my camera with me! So we will pop up again later and take some pics! Didn't notice any of the electrical stuff after that!!!!!

Will post again later with pics!!!!!! Yee haa!!!!!!!!!

xMel

Electricals!

No brickie today, but there was an electrician's van parked out the front! It's hard to tell sometimes if it's for us or not, as there is a house getting built opposite us, so there are always utes, trucks etc parked all over the place! Our big boy was sick today, so stuck at home - thank god for Granny who came to the rescue and gave me a chance to nick out for an hour and find out the above info!

Then hubby called to say he'd had a call from our CSR regarding the downlights in our hallway - yey, it was our electrician! They're doing our lights!!!!! Because our house is split-level, the roof trusses in the hallway have ended up being right in the way of where the downlights were supposed to go, ie., down the middle. The electrician suggested we have four lights instead of the original two; two each on either side so it doesn't look silly! Sounded good to us, so all sorted! Easy peasy! Can't wait to take some piccies!

xMel

We drove past yesterday morning and there was a ute parked out the front with a little mixer on the back! "Brickies", I squealed! Fast forward to 1.00pmish and we thought we'd scoot past again! Ute still there, mixer still on the back. Brickie sitting inside, chatting on the phone. Bummer!

Drove past this morning - no plasterer or brickie - but noticed that bricks had been pulled out and put in piles, so it was our brickie at least! But alas he was not there today. Nevermind! I poked my head in for a quick look and saw that most of the cornices are done and all the edges on walls have been finished off - beautifully I might add - to my untrained but fairly fussy eye!!!! Plaster has also been added to the alfresco and garage ceilings - they look great!

Well hopefully we will see our brickie back there again this week; if I wasn't so fat, I would have offered to help considering the weather is so beautiful!!!!!

xMel

Cornices!

Just a short one today! Very neat piles of cut cornices were laid out on the floor today, ready to go up! A big pile of sand and lots of bags of cement also delivered. Now all we need are the brickies!

xMel