The Outside Is Done

Today I'm off to Brisbane to spend 2 days and lots of money at the Stitches and Craft Show. I'm picking my Mum and Dad up at Gympie and they're coming with me. We are spending 3nights with my DB Ken and DSIL Lyn and on Fri and Sat us girls are hitting the stalls. I've got my list and the credit card.

I'm especially after a large cutting board mine is slowly dying, the poor thing has been constantly used since I started patchworking way back and is screaming for mercy. It is A3 size but this time I'm looking for A2 or bigger. Wish me luck because that size is not readily available.

We will leave Bris sometime on Sunday, completely exhausted and head back to Gympie where
I'll spend the night while Mum and I once again pore over our goodies before heading for home Monday morning.



This is the front of our home. When we bought the property 5acres of thigh high grass and a house that needed someone to love it. We did, warts and all. We have restumped - there was a 12" fall from back to front, reroofed, pulled walls out inside and then there is the exterior additions.

We enlarged the small back verandah and added the side verandah which you are looking at. We then shifted the front stairs to this verandah because the driveway comes up to this side and everyone was driving up to my back door which I didn't want. I took this photo from the bottom of the roundabout. We haven't finished yet, the railings still have to be built but in the meantime Ian has put green corrugated iron up as a barrier to stop us falling over the edge. My little Molly (the Aus silky) dropped over one day, at the highest part of course. Fell on her feet, shook herself off and continued on as if nothing had happened. Boy were we lucky! I could see huge vet bills ahead.


This is the 99.5% finished shed. Just have to install 2 downpipes and then Ian is off to council to make an appointment for the final inspection. Then we can start the interior work. Yesterday he made the comment that I should be in before Chrissy. I'm hoping to be in by Sept/Oct.


Now friends who haven't seen the property have been saying that I should share my shed with hubby. No way. Because this is a photo of his shed, 4 bays with another 4 bay carport thingy across the back of it. That huge structure on the side is for our caravan, which you can just see in the background of the house photo. Why so big I hear you ask? Because our van is an offroad so is fairly high and when Ian backs it up the hill into its home the back end lifts even higher, so we had to have the shed opening high enough to compensate.

That's all from me for this posting. I'm off to Stitches and Craft. la la la. I'm off to Stitches and Craft. la la la. I'm off to Stitches and Craft. la la la.