House & Home

It's funny how we still love candles in the 21st century. We don't NEED them anymore - since the advent of electric lighting they are well and truly obsolete. I mean - can you imagine using a tub and scrubbing board to do your laundry these days? Do you even have a … [Read more...] about Why I love Candles (and I’m not alone!)

If you've been hanging around these parts for a while, you will know I have been longing to refresh our bedroom decor for a looooong time now. We've made minor changes, usually by updating the bed linen (not as easy as it sounds as we prefer a comforter to a quilt or … [Read more...] about A Decorating Dilemma or Two

Confession Number One: I'm not really a couch potato. There are so many things to do, even if we are mostly staying at home thanks to COVID-19. Work takes up a fair slab of my time. As does sleep. What's left over tends to be split between cooking meals and keeping the … [Read more...] about Confessions of a Couch Potato

It's been a year since we officially become the owners of our new house (though only about 10 months since we moved). While the house was only about a dozen years old, it was pretty run down and neglected after being a rental all its life. So we bought it knowing it needed … [Read more...] about 43 Things in A Year

Double storey living is a whole new story (couldn't resist LOL) for this middle aged mama. Over the past five decades I have lived in a highset house (my childhood home), a worker's cottage, a drafty and rundown old Queenslander, a couple of grotty flats, in a caravan for … [Read more...] about Upstairs, Downstairs: Adjusting to Double Storey Living