wordless weekending...

sweet words

I just had to share....for a number of reasons...

Charlotte came home from school last week with this letter from one of her friends and it made me smile broadly and reflect on those very very sweet words. 

So here's my reflection:

* I would be a super proud mama of the little girl that wrote the letter.. This little girl thought to put these lovely sentiments in a sweet little letter to her friend - sharing some positives,  nurturing her friendship, celebrating her friendship and showing her appreciation...

* How often do we do this, us girls, to each other? It is something that I try exceptionally hard to teach my girls, the next generation of big girls.. To love, nurture and celebrate other girls in their lives. I personally could not live without "my girls" - my friends, my family, and I love to embrace new "girls" that find their way into my life....

* I beamed with pride when i read that letter too, about my big girl...

She is listening , she is watching, she is learning..

About loving, nurturing, supporting, celebrating and enjoying other girls. 

I think we as mama's have a responsibility today and everyday to ensure that our girls know how to do this, when bullying in schools and cyber bullying is a major problem in our society...

Spread the love peeps....don't get me started on our responsibilities to little boys, that's a whole other post...

So a challenge for you ladies....

spread some love to the little and big girls in your life,  perhaps in a little glitter pen hand written note, a few spoken words, a little something special, flower from your garden..

and when you do so, tell your little girl what your doing and why and how much you value the women in your life and why..

GIRL POWER xxx

Melissa

floor progress..

 I snuck into the house on friday and snapped a couple of pics on my i phone as the floor sander/polisher was putting some undercoat kind of stuff on the floors. 

This is the girls lounge/rumpus room...

( the french doors are still a gorgeous yellow undercoat as the door furniture needs to be fitted before they can be glossed up in white)

 He was literally still rolling them as I snapped as you can see this is a half finished Amelia's room

We decided to go the all natural and low allergy option of tung oil rather than polyurethane. This will ensure we have a very low gloss, environmentally and allergy friendly,  easy to maintain floor. We really love the matt look timber floor and would have even left it natural if that was allowed... With the tung oil, if it scratches you can apparently sand back the scratch by hand and just touch up one spot or even one room and it easily blends back in with the rest of the floor without having to sand and re lacquer the entire house - sounds good to me.. Even though we are really not precious about timber floors - the more knocks and scrapes the better...character we say!

The floor sander will be in the house for the next few days finishing off...

I really should be packing.... but i just cant pry myself away from Pinterest at the moment...

Planning, dreaming & gathering inspiration for each room...

Melissa xx

proud mama

We were amazed and entertained again this year by the girls schools musical. 

For such a tiny little school, the school musical production really is amazing. 

As I mentioned the children write, sing and produce all the songs for the musical and on the night the school sells the CD. I now know every song well enough to sing along to, they really are catchy...

With only parent help, some small donations from local community groups and the hard work of the kids and teachers, stage props and costumes are put together.

 Little emus shaking their tail feathers .... bless..

 the kids made all their masks and they all looked gorgeous...

I had a big kangaroo....

and a little chicken....

What an amazing experience, great confidence builder, the stuff childhood memories are made of really... All packaged up with an important message about sustainability...

It left my heart swollen with pride and some catchy little tunes stuck in my head...

Before I go - thanks so much for all your lovely lovely comments & continuing to come past White Verandah :) And a very big warm welcome to our new followers...

Melissa xx

busy days

Were getting there! 

The floor sander is busy sanding away today and the floors with be coated and finished by next week..

The kitchen tiling needs to be completed in the next week or so...

The electrician is hopefully finishing today..

 painters all finished...

The windows, doors, architraves and skirts are all glossed up in Wattyl White Delight

Window coverings ordered and being made ready for install just before we move..

Wardrobes and shelves all fitted out...

This is the store room/linen cupboard

Tiling complete and plumbing almost done...The bath and basin plugs just needs to be finished...

Still making a decision on the mirrors... Perhaps a standard large mirror or perhaps a feature mirror...?? Mmmmm, what would you do?

Verandah has started and if the weather behaves we could have deck in less than 2 weeks just in time for the plumber to put the hot water service on before we move in... Yes, moving in-fingers crossed within the next couple of weeks...

The boys will continue to work on the verandah, man cave will be clad next week and painters working outside but this little chicken is not that patient - so in we move for Christmas...

Oh and we have a new addition to our family. Meet Scout....An innocent trip to the pet shop, a car trip home that involved two little girls crying and begging, puppy eyes from the three girls of the house when we got home, and the daddy agreed... 

Back we went to the pet shop....

Sorry about the lack of posts - naughty computer just would not cooperate..

More photos to come...

Oh and Christmas is coming so I've heard....my heart just races at the thought of the next four weeks...but in a good way..... *sigh* Its here, moving day is nearly here...

Melissa xx