My Dream House - A Blog This Challenge

I am playing a long here...

The Aim?

To our own personal ideal. If time/location/money/the rest of the world didn't matter, where would you live? What would your house look like? Find pictures ofyour dream home. What would the rooms look like? How would you furnish them? is it a beach house? Mountainside? Huge backyard, or small courtyard? Farm or suburbia? Apartment overlooking the Eiffel tower or rustic farmhouse in Tuscany. Is there a tree with a swing on it? Do you have a fireplace, mantle covered in photos? Is it a morroccon themed home/asian? Minimalist/shabby chic?

Design your perfect home for us.

Find pictures online and dream away.

Below is my dream house:

An Italian Villa in the hills by the sea...

...with a bedroom I can hide away in and read special books...

...and a pretty kitchen with lots of places to hang my utensils....

...of course there would be lots of light and herbs...

...from my veggie patch...

I'd have a sewing room, although I cannot sew...

....and a garden shed next to...

...the chooks...

This bathroom would be just fine...

There would probably be a nursery with lots of fun things...

...and a walk in closet packed to the rafters...

Wish review full of fails...

Last Sunday night I wrote a 'prayer'. It didn't really work. Let's review my wishes shall we?

I pray that I can catch up on all my client interviews at work. Fail - only by one though

I hope that Mr. S will help me with the dishes or cooking, even if it is just one night. Fail - Mr S. spent most of the week in the truck and was too exhausted to do anything.

Could you give me the energy to walk my desired 5 kilometres every night? I really want to lose my not so lovely love handles in time for summer. Fail - it rained for most of the week.

Please do not send more than 3 new clients this week. I really need to finish off last months staff supervision. Fail - I got 4 and 0 staff supervision sessions done

May I please stay awake long enough to watch Satisfaction and True Blood Monday and Tuesday nights? Pass!

It would be brilliant if my boss took me out to lunch, after all he has been on holiday for two weeks. He needs to spread his refreshed energy around. Fail - he tells me it will be this week. I highly doubt it though as we both have staff recruitment interviews..

I would love it if I sold some bottone on madeit....and if it is not too much trouble.... Eh! Nothin' but I did make it into the wednesday madeit newsletter.

A suprise gift of chocolate, kisses or a nice compliment from Mr. S would be perfect. Hmmmm - Mr S informed me I did a wonderful job of cleaning the house yesterday. Does that count?

This week I don't want anything. I will not ask anything of anyone and we will see how we go. I should be grateful that I didn't get 10 new clients, 3 kilos of fat filled chocolate and was able to sustain myself long enough to watch Satisfaction and True Blood.

My Place & Yours :: On the shelf

I have decided to play along with Pip's meme. I love Pip's posts. She is my craft lady idol. (Can you tell? I have stolen her :: 's in my title)

This weeks theme is 'On the Shelf'.

My original post was going to be about the treasures items that sit upon my Ikea cube however the battery in my camera has failed me. : (
Instead I will tell you of my grand shelf plan for my craft room. As you will know if you have followed me for a while....I have a button addiction....I am also a bit of a greenie...

I try to recycle and reuse as much as possible. We have little waste in this house. We have two big compost bins (the ones Tumbler ones - you need to check them out at your nearest Bunnings. They are fantastic), we recycle like there is no tomorrow, I try and steer away from harsh chemicals when I buy my cleaning products and not much of our rubbish goes into landfill.

I am also addicted to coffee. Mr. S (bless his heart) is kind and makes me one every morning so my lips hit the cup very soon after my feet have hit the bedroom floor.

So what do you get when you mix a button loving coffee addict with a recycling freak?

Coffee jars full of buttons. Red buttons, vintage buttons, childrens buttons, plastic buttons, wooden buttons....you name it...I've got 'em.
Similiar to the picture above I have them all lined up in my craft room, sadly on the floor....paitently awaiting Mr S to erect my crisp white Ikea shelf on the wall so I can line them all up and make a pretty crafty statement.

That's what I want on my shelf. Storage solution and work of art at the same time. Delightful if you ask me.

OMG OMG OMG

I do not have the energy to put a picture in this blog however....I just opened the Wednesday handmade wonderfuls email from madeit and guess who made an appearance?
Right down the bottom...at the very end...but before the sponsor info...is me....well one of my bracelets anyway. What a lovely way to end a reasonably crappy day.
My Dear God prayer hasn't worked very well this week. I think I should pray harder next time...

Have your cake and eat it too

Dear person in the sky/higher being/God/someone who has more pull in this world than I,

I know I am not a religious person however I really need a hand up at the moment. If you could help me out with a few of these things I would be forever grateful.

This week....

• I pray that I can catch up on all my client interviews at work.
• I hope that Mr. S will help me with the dishes or cooking, even if it is just one night.
• Could you give me the energy to walk my desired 5 kilometres every night? I really want to lose my not so lovely love handles in time for summer.
• Please do not send more than 3 new clients this week. I really need to finish off last months staff supervision.
• May I please stay awake long enough to watch Satisfaction and True Blood Monday and Tuesday nights?
• It would be brilliant if my boss took me out to lunch, after all he has been on holiday for two weeks. He needs to spread his refreshed energy around.
• I would love it if I sold some bottone on madeit....and if it is not too much trouble....
• A suprise gift of chocolate, kisses or a nice compliment from Mr. S would be perfect.

Surely you could make just a couple of these wishes come true?!

Thank-you in advance,

One demanding yet hopefully young lady.

Store Update and Blogger Giveaway

Vintage button charm bracelet

White Vintage Charm Bracelet

Pastel Button Bracelet

Multi Coloured Button Bracelet

All these goodies and more can be found in my made it shop.

Click here for some button jewellery delights.

For my blogger readers I am having a special giveaway.

Simply be a follower of my blog and buy something from my madeit shop between now and the 15th of December 2009 and I will enclose a suprise gift for free.

It could be a range of different button jewellery. Rings, bracelets, children's friendship bracelets...

All you need to do is give me your blog name upon checkout.

SPREAD THE WORD!

Coffee and Chocolate Break

Time for a coffee and chocolate break before I upload a new range of Manca Un Bottone onto MADEIT. Stay tuned.

I Love a Giveaway

We all love a giveaway right?
Well pop on over here to Bubba Chenille and check out her lovely blog. She is having a MASSIVE giveaway for her '1st blogaversary'. There are some rules but they are easy.

Follow this Bubba Chenille link

and you too can find out how to be eligible for this delightful giveaway.

The Menu.

The Menu in this house has to change. Mr S and I are both in weight gain hell.
I was on the program - exercise, healthy eating (mainly vegetarian for a few weeks there) and a sugar free diet. I don't know what happened. We fell off the wagon.
Tonight we are having vegatarian lasgange. Found at Exclusively Food. 

It looks delightful.

Stumbling...'inside a black apple'...

I love stumbling. Most nights I sit here on my laptop while Mr S watches geek episodes of StarTrek or Wrestling. (Star Trek and/or WWE = slow, painful, bleed out death in my books).
I often stumble upon things and fall in love. It can be blogs, pictures, games, online shopping or reading articles from different news sites.
I am content to sit here in my daggy Bonds trackies, poo brown ugg boots while listening to some sweet tunes (tonight it is Kimya Dawson) and discovering something new about something or someone.

About 18 months ago, when Mr. S and I moved into our house, I found this wonderful Amercian artist on Etsy. I LOVED her. I purchased 3 of her pictures and had them professionally framed. They over look our dining room. One of the pictures looks very similar to Mr S and I. It is titled 'As long as I have you'. (below)

This is The Black Apple's Etsy store. She is fabulous.

Tonight I struck Gold. The Black Apple has I blog. HERE HERE HERE. Note my excitement?

and my heart breaks...

It is just devestating to read that there has been another earthquake. I am employed in the welfare industry and have had the pleasure of working with many Samoan, Tongan and Pacific Islander people over the past five years. It is horrible to think that so many people have lost their lives and these loving, family orientated, tight knit communities have been ripped apart by a natural disaster.

You can donate to Red Cross here. A little goes a long way.

I travelled to Thailand in 2005 after the Tsunami. Even though it was a couple of years after the big wave had hit, the people of Phuket were still deeply effected. We saw first hand photos of the devestation and it was absolutley heart breaking. To think that something very similar has happened again to such kind natured people is very very sad.

To all the people impacted by the tradegy - you are in my thoughts.