Manic home-making

So I got home four days ago, and was greeted by balloons and banners and a lovely message, and so many hugs, and I blubbed and blubbed.  Ooh it was good to be back!  And my garden looks so wonderful... I'll have to do a pic of that next week.  Flowers, flowers, flowers!

....and have hardly sat down since.  So much to doooo!!!

First things first.  After all my arty-farting in Christchurch, I knew I had to have a painting place, stat. So on Friday, Mutti, Bunce and I went out desk-hunting.  Ugh, everything was either too ugly, or too expensive - after all, it's a painting desk and likely to suffer some horrid mistreatment.  I was becoming despondent, and then we went to BUNNINGS.

Oh yeah!

Why BUY a desk when you have BUNNINGS and BUNCE?  Bugger that.  We* MADE one!!  And it's awesome!!

* I assume you are translating that WE to BUNCE?  Good oh.

Is it not most fantastically Industrial and Cool?  And the stool was a find too, at the good ol' Warehouse with 40% off.  Nice.

Today I modpodged the wooden box that the school ladies presented all my presents in, and it shall live under The Desk with all my art bits.  Well okay, not ALL of them.  But the most high rotation ones.

Oh, and we also took down the lounge curtains that I have loathed for two years (see all the LIGHT pouring in?!?!?!) and shabby-chic'd the TV cabinet.  And I bought some cool paint for that wall - it's just off-black, like an off-white only lots darker.  Can't wait to put it up!

Today we went to the art show and bought a very cool resin painting called "Saturn".  I think it's more "Jupiter" myself but. As you can see, it's VERRRY SHINY.

Meanwhile, Seb has decided that Cool Guys Wear Glasses and I have been forced to remove the lenses from an old pair so that he can walk around in them all day.  Yup, he and Pearl are DEFINITELY related.

And lastly, here's a cute crab-hunting pic, thanks to Lily and Jack's mum Nicole.  Seb went to Mutti and Bunce's Holiday House for the last weekend... sniff!  It's been such a very dear little house!  With such very dear people.