Car project

Here is a sample of what I will be making for the car. This one is a trial and will post better pics later. It is just a rectangle of plastic with holes punched down the side and bottom and then ribbon threaded like a shoe lace.

My new baby

Well I have decided to buy this one from office works. They only had the silver in stock, so I purchased on the office works website and it will be delivered to the store to pick up. Can't wait to try it out :D

Decisions Decision

With all this cleaning and organising I am looking at buying a label maker. But have no idea which one to buy......

So I am going to go shopping and see what I can afford then research them then buy one! yay!

Pantry

I sorted the pantry a week ago and I'm happy to say it has basically stayed the same YAY!

One thing that helped is having everything of the same together. I have all the larger items in jars then the smaller items I have put in 10L starmaid containers.

*First one I have all my cooking things(coconut, bicarb, icing sugar etc).


*Second one I have all the school lunch items(muesli bars, rice crackers, fruit tubs for the week, as they are big I put the spares away).




*In the last one I have all recipe bases and my pasta items that don't go in my storage jars(rice paper, sushi papers, lasagna sheets)



The snack box is also handy if we have to dive out anywhere fast as we can just grab a water bottle and the box and we are ready to go.

It's catching...

Well no pun intended but hubby came home a couple of days ago and said I bought these today(storage boxes with compartments)to sort my fishing gear out. :O And he bought a new back pack to keep most of it in as well. So it's all ready for when he wants to go fishing(which is ALOT :P). Well up to this point he had either just thrown it all into an old tackle box, or floating around in a smaller bag or an old plastic box he keeps his bits and pieces.

The result after sorting it was 1 bag of rubbish from old real boxes etc about 7 items to get rid off and 3 beautiful boxes all sorted :D.

Family Meetings

We try to have one each Sunday night as a moment to spend together. We each take turns by saying what we would like to say to each other then we give the person we are talking to a chance to respond. It has helped heaps.

For example tonight DD brought it to our attention that the boys are forgetting to shut the toilet door, so the boys replied that they will try and remember. We also sat down and discussed the system I would like to try and they had their input of what they would like to try. Hubby even said he really wants to do it, but sometimes its hard to know what I have done. So asked if I can mark it off with a white board maker on the plastic sleeve(I have the lists in plastic sleeves in the folder)so we can wipe it off when we start the week/month again.

It isn't always negative a lot of the time it is positive. Tonight DS said to DD " All I want to say is I love you and thank you for helping me with my room" (she helped tidy it up with him).

It has opened up our communication as a family and all it takes is about 10mins. The kids know that no matter what at this time of the week it is just for talking and they will get heard. Since they feel heard they come and talk to us the rest of the week now and not bottle it up.


Oh and one more thing before I call it a night.....
Don't forget to smile

Our daughters room is nearly done

NB: Warning this is long with pics :)

Since we rent we can't do much to this place , but we are lucky that the landlord will let us do a lot. We are allowed to put nails etc up. So I have done our daughters room up as her birthday present last year.

She used to share with her brother and we used this room as a study. But since she is growing into a young lady asked if she could have her own room. Moving was out of the question so we changed rooms around, we moved our son into our old room and we moved into theirs and put our computers in the bedroom as ours was now the larger room and our daughter has the study. It is small and have to walk threw it to the toilet and it still needs a few things done but she is happy with it so far. We have De- cluttered 2 shopping bags of things to the bin and 6 items to the op shop. We still have her desk draws to sort and paint the top of her desk(going to paint it pink and add stickers) and a couple of other things. 

We did all this on a very small budget, you can get bargains if you look for them.

All this was done over 9mths.
Desk -$8 eBay

chest of draws- $10 garage sale (contacted front of draws and top with pink little pony paper)

small bedside table- hand me down from mum

Book case - got given from work office, was black painted white, hung butterfly material as curtain and used tapestry cotton to make tassels

Memory board - $5 (canvas with material over it, fastened with staple gun. Then ribbon crissed crossed over and held in place by brads. add flower to top)

Bed - $8 eBay

mosquito net -$5 garage sale

picture behind bed - $5 towel

Silver frame with pics- $15 for frame, printed pics on computer

Teddy in bucket- $5 white metal bucket (on clearance), teddy given as gift. flowers around teddy.

Curtain ties- $3 per pack of 3 butterflies, $1 ribbon. glue ribbon on to back of butterfly

flowers on windows- $2 x 2 sheets from crazy Clark's.

flower canvas- $6 each. had outline I just painted it.

Princess board - $12. painted kaiser board and covered it with scrappbooking paper. painted word and put rhinestones on it. glued word to board

Flowers on bed and around lamp- $3 each from crazy clarks

covered tissue box - Cant remember price. Covered with scrapbooking paper with ribbon and stamps, ribbon and flowers

notice board - $7 painted normal one with paint and put rhinestones on it

Wall stickers around walls

mother and child lamp -$10 garage sale

High school musical quilt cover - $10 clearance kmart

office chair -$6 ebay

Storage boxes for school books - Free, got the boxes the reams of paper come in from work. Our daughter now has a box for her school books for each year. These are labeled and put under her bed against the wall.



If you want to see more photos of anything please ask.