stuff I have been doing

BAD BAD BAD

Its the same ol' song.... bad blogger.... MIA again...

Truth is I havent been inspired much lately to blog about housey stuff.
This is because Im in housey limbo.... which really isnt a nice place for me to be.

But..... after over 6 months of daily house hunting.. we have found a house...
Offer in... waiting to hear back from the owners who are overseas and told the agent they may take 2 weeks!! GREAT!
Im taking this as a sign, furniture is placed in my head - I have even been choosing wallpaper and paint finishes, Im sure this is more to do with me being a Gemini that me having some decorating mental illness.. right??

The good news is people, if you are still out there...
Im feeling VERY inspired..
The new house (lets just pretend for a second its already mine)
Is pretty much everything I had dreamed about, expect the kitchen, is a brand new kitchen but not my flavour so Im not going to bitch about it, I will enjoy it, its got everything I need.. It just doesnt fill my white kitchen obsession... "things can be changed" said my long suffereing husband and I agreed.

So... bloggy feelin's are back and flooding with ideas.... lets hope it sticks cos truth is i have missed my little nesty blog...

Thanks for still checking to see if Im alive... xxoo
Em

::: update ::: house aint mine.. still looking 26/9/10

very. very. bad blogger

I know. I know..... my blogging mojo has gone ...
I wish I had an excuse, you know, like I ran away with the circus..but I do not.
Im just slack.

I am committing myself to at  least 2 posts per week.....
wish me luck.
I obviously need it.

Party of 5 once again.

This is the 'Party Of Five' house, it recently sold for $6.5 Million.

LOVE this house.

My Hubby gets home today.

I have missed him so.

We are such a team its hard with out him here.

Even though he is away alot.

I LOVE the days when he comes back.

Soup is simmering on the stove.

House is clean.

All I need it to pop on a frock and go to the airport.

I cant wait to see him.

Love that man.

Bob and I

you may remember my post below about the family I have a 'major' crush on....
Well, I got a friend request on FB from Robert... Im sure this is because I fanned all hiw sites, not because he actually wanted to be my BFF or anything :)
Anyway -  I wrote him a note... just fo fun.. and because I can bee stalky at times.....hehe!

"Hi Robert, Just thought Id post a quick message, Love your book, have loved every image and page over and over again.

LOVE your family’s style! It’s so inspiring as a mother of 3 (yep only 3) and an Interior Design student, I hope to embrace design, business and life with children in the same way as you and Cortney do.... Also, have to tell you your children’s names are absolutely brilliant! As an Aussie, Love Breaker! Very cool indeed!
Do you know if your show is going to screen here in Australia. I certainly hope so.
Emily x :)"
 
AND
 
he responded ......
 
"Thx Emily..we are not sure about Australia hope so.."
 
You are very. very welcome Bob .. very, very welcome...!
Yes, Im tragic...

Road Tripping

My beautiful husband is away at the moment.. agh do I feel like a holiday as well.
While he is kicking it in Mexico, LA and currently Vegas my girlfriends and I have decided to organise a road trip... Probably to the Flinders in wildflower season. Possibly to Halls Gap in the Grampians.

Anyway - while talking about all of this an how we would accomodate ourselves we got on the topic of caravaning...

fast forward one week, I go to my local papershop and buy the lastest issue of one of my favorite mags Frankie.. (if you dont read Frankie yet, do it!) I was beside myself when they had a whole article on pretty caravans and how much fun they are.

So Im pretty much decided that I NEED one of these... they are just so beautiful and while a gypsy caravan would be equally sweet, I think these retro ones suit my needs much more...
I went online to find someone that sells them..... nup, not easy to find...

If you know of one in need of restore with a lovely shape and in good nick.. apart from cosmetics.
PLEASE let me know...

Just dreamy!!!!

Going Raw

Im slowly making the move and eating 100% raw food, I have done it on and off for the last 6 months, but I only last about 5 days before I get sick of the recipes I have mastered.
However, I have just pruchased some essential equiptment for the raw foodie..
a new juicer and a dehydrator !!! very exciting.
I thought Id share with you about it and also any recipes along the way... below is all about the lifestyle..

"The raw food vegan diet & lifestyle successfully contributes not only to optimal health creation, but is also prevalent in animal welfare and ecology, providing a sustainable and compassionate future.

A raw foods diet is made up of fresh, whole, unrefined, living, plant-based foods: fruits, vegetables, leafy greens, nuts, and seeds, which are consumed in their natural state, without cooking or steaming. People who adopt this diet are often referred to as "raw fooders" or "raw vegans."
Since the primary focus is optimal health, it is essential to understand that good health is the product of a healthy lifestyle. The raw diet is only one component. Adequate sleep, regular exercise, plenty of fresh air, water and ample sunlight, a positive outlook on life, friendship, security in life, and many other factors are also important to good health. The raw diet has no mystical properties to it, however it does provide our bodies with excellent nutrition allowing for the human body to reach its full potential"

Life Envy :)

Not often do I wish I had someone elses life... Im pretty happy, content with my lot. I love where my life has been and where its going.... most days.lol.
But I have become obsessed (yes I use that word alot) with the Novogratz  family.

Not only are they as cool as you can get.

Bob and Cortney Novogratz are the ownners of Sixx Design.. www.sixxdesign.com
They are both designers who live in NY with there family of 7 children S E V E N !! oh my, if that isnt enough the children have the most beautiful and coolest names I have ever heard...

As Bob says himself :::
1. Wolfgang (12) – named after Wolfgang Mozart (Novogratz is Austrian, as is Mozart)
2. Bellamy (11) – French name, meaning beautiful friend
3. Tallulah (11) – Cortney is from Georgia, very southern name, ie. Tallulah Bankhead
4. Breaker (9) – named after Harry Breaker Morant from the Australian movie Breaker Morant. He was a scholar, a poet, an opera singer, a soldier, and the best horseman in all of Australia (he broke all of the wild horses)
5. Five (4) - He was obviously our fifth child…
6. Holleder (4) – named after Don Holleder, an All American quarterback at West Point. He was killed in Vietnam in a very heroic act of saving his own men. He was loved by my Pops and all that new him. His guys nicknamed him Holly, and we did as well.
and newset additon
7. Major (4 months old)

I need another child, I LOVE LOVE LOVE the name Major in fact I need 7 more kids.. agh!

Anyway - I have their book 'Downtown Chic' and the pages are so divine,
soooo me! its like they styled this house for my family, I would live there in a nano-second and
not change a thing..
I have told my husband Im just going to copy there house, well try to on a less that billion dollar budget but I just love it, so many of their 'finds' are flea market, they use large scale art work which I love!!
Its so 'eclectic' and easy, it doesnt look over styled.. oh oh oh how I love it.

The family now have their own show (of course) Nine By Design .. on Bravo, no idea when it will make it to our screens, for now Im happy downloading.

The house is so cool in another way, in the design you will see random things for kids, like a swing or see saw.. of course with 7 kids this is a must but the way its done is nothing short of mindblowing.
Whats even better is they are constantly buying and renovating .. sounds familiar. love it!

I LOVE these pendant lights, Im getting some ... soon.

in this post, some pics of their NY home.... die and go to heaven.

Did I tell you I was obsessed.....

Antlers ... (new crush)

whats not to love.

On the move ... again

Im almost embaressed to say this, but over the last few months. I have had a niggle in my bones that I wanted to move house. again. We have moved house so many times, I dont even want to count anymore.
Its silly.
But, I dont love my house, we put an offer in on this house without going into it.. c r a z y !
I love where it is, I love what could be done, but I dont want to do it.

So, very cautiously I talked to my darling hubby who to my suprise was feeling the same way.
We down sized and now we want a bigger house. room to move, and room to get away from each other.
we need would like 5 bedrooms, a double garage for cars that isnt falling to pieces, and a big lovely open plan kitchen.

So now I am combing the realestate site every single day, and there is nada. nothing. diddly squat that fits the bill, we are area fussy to, mainly because the boys schools are so wonderful and we dont want them to be out of the area...

Soooo thats where its at. I have purchased boxes and masking tape and a big arse black marker.
I still had boxes I hadn't unpacked, Ill take that as a sign.

eek, still being a bad blogger

I have been so bad, I know it.

In my defense... (in point form.lol)
I have been studying and LOVING it but man its hard to fit in study, children, husband,
housework, friends and blogging.

We are having our entire house rendered and roof resealed at the moment... this equals noise. lotsa noise.

Its school holidays, I love school holidays, we havent done much of anything just hung out and walks up to the waterfall... bliss.

Im pretty pleased with myself, I havent studied properly for years, a lot of years. Im doing Interior Architecture which is a fancy name for Interior Design... I cannot tell you how much I am loving it.
LOVING IT!
Whats even more exciting is that I got a distinction and a high distinction for my first 2 assignments..
so apparently Im not as dumb as I thought I was... loving it!!

So the pics today and ones I used in my first assignment.... just for your viewing pleasure.

Thanks for being patient if your still our reading this blog.. school goes back next week and my husband goes away for 3 weeks so while Im missing that sweet man Ill have a lot of time to catch up..

Em xxoo

Gnome Love

Gnomes have long been a little thing I have loved.

When I was older than I would care to share, my sisters and I and a family friend would every night after school make 'food' for the garden gnomes my mother had dotted around our beautiful garden, I have no idea where on earth my mum found these gnomes, but they were not gaudy like some poor chaps are, they were beautifully painted, we had about 6, maybe 10?? some stood 40cm tall..
you wouldnt even know they were in our garden unless we showed you, they were hidden under bushes and in between blooming clivia.. thats what gnomes like, they dont like to be exposed....
anyway, we would make food for the gnomes, cutting up berries, lilypillys and leaves and plating them up with the up most care onto a piece of well chosen flat bark... we would do this for HOURS!! and we did it for YEARS!!
Easily amused maybe, but we had the most vivid imaginations, every day before school.. erm, yes I was that old... we would check to see if they had eaten the dinner we had left out for them the night before... and most of the time, god willing they had nibbled at the meals we had prepared......... (no, I am not a nut case, I just had a wonderful whimsical imagination)

Im not sure if the book of Gnomes came to my house as a result of my and my siblings obesssion with the guys in our garden, or if the book is what sparked our passion.. Im going to ask my mum this.. will report back.... but I have had this book in my house since I was 8 years old and I LOVE it, I remember taking the book to my Opa once and asking him if he thought they were real, and in his Dutch husky voice he said "Of course they are" - that was good enough for me!!!
I look at this book often, its always on one of our coffee tables or on a shelf, I have never put it out of reach, ever...(!!) when I was little the nudie gnomes use to make me giggle, now I love the gnome furniture and lifestyle... yes, there is a gnome lifestyle!!

My boys also love this book, we all giggle together and the tales and interesting gnomey facts inside its well worn pages.

Today we decided that we would make our reading corner into somewhat of a homage to all the gnomes.
I told my boys about my Gnome food making days and Archie LOVED the idea, Billy of course as most 12 year olds would thought I was certifiable and Oscar just kept laughing at the nudie gnomes bosoms.

We ordered some gnome fabric to make a cushion, and some prints for the corner from etsy.
Will sort out the gnome corner and get back with a picture.

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter .... xxoo

White Room Events

My little baby now has a website! It still needs some work, but Im pretty happy with it.

http://www.whiteroomevents.com.au/

For other services I offer you can click on my logo in the side bar and be taken to my Facebook page,
I have just put in an order for some amazing furniture. So beautiful! so my range of hire items is constantly being updated.

Next week, I hope to get back to blogging about the 4 things I love most in life, Husband and 3 boys of course, and its school holidays - What an amazing 1st term we have had!!! the best school term ever.

have a great weekend
Em xo

Im still here...

Much to post about this week..... after being slack in my true blogging style...

Camping

I just dropped my son off for his first school camp.
(find a happy place)
He is required to put up his own tent, cook his own meals, dig his own bush toilet and if that isnt enough, make a raft and somwhow row it up the river.

(breathe)

I have prepared him as best as I could, labelled everything, tucked away treats in his bag, had oodles of chats about what to do, or rather what not to do.

I hope he has the time of his life, its the first time in 12.5 years he has stayed anywhere without family.
Its tough. I need to let go.

I hope this is a good thing for him and he finds a new freind in the world of camping.
I love camping, before he was born I did it all the time.I have even camped alone.. crazy much!?

The silent and beautiful dark blue galaxy and still outback night is a treat for sure.

cross your fingers a toes he comes back  alive  happy.

Gypsy Caravan

One for the top of the Christmas List!!

Beautiful, Cosy and Fun

Have a great weekend

xo

Yellow Finds

Hasn't the weather been beautiful! so sunny. Makes me feel warm and think of all things yellow.
I know in my next house (yes - there will be one, Im sure) I want a yellow front door.
In my house now it would look odd. But I love them so much.

Whats not to love about yellow?

I have a friend who hates Orange, I love orange but I get its not for everyone, same with Green some people loath it, I get puzzled but people not liking a colour. I dont LOVE purple, but then I can see it used in the right way or on a pretty dress and admire how great a colour it is.
But, I have to ask  what sort of person could not love yellow, a sad person perhaps, a gloomy type, its one of those colours to me that no one could dislike.

Right Stripe

Can anything be more lovely than a stripey room, its so fresh and fun.
I have painted a striped room before,

please when you look at these rooms feel for the person that painted them, its a hard job, but the result is most definatly worth it.

Beautiful!!

friendly festivites

me and my girls feeling a bit warm

Me, Miss M and my Hubby.. we all look over it.. but were were not at all!!

me looking strangly like a gecko. eek.

some pics, because I cant find my camera cord.. agggghh!!! so I had to steal my mates pics of what I have been doing.
Birthdays and
Soundwaves - Faith No More were so good, I was blown away! I knew they would be good but I was just .. blown A W A Y!

Was nice to get my lovely husband out for the day, I normally fly solo to these sorts of things.
He had a good time with us girls.
My friends love my hubby, he is pretty good!! I like him to.
He makes friends with everyone he meets and then they love him.
It can be annoying. But mostly I like it.

If I ever ran a festival (hmmmm!! mayhe something for the bucket list!)
I would serve decent food (and lots of it!)
I would not make water $5 nor would I think of charging $10 for a Canadian Club or a Jim Beam.
I would always make sure that people didnt run out of loo paper by 2pm. (lucky I had my own supply)
But they certianly got good bands in and lets face it, its all about the music -
and THAT certianly did not disapoint!

cant wait till next year.

Photo Love

Beautiful photos are one of the most wonderful things in the world, wouldnt you agree,
Someone who can capture the feeling of a particular moment in time,
is the lovely Kirsty Dollery from 'ruby d' her pics are AMAZING,
I just love the candid style of weddings and events, I also love a photographer who doesnt miss the small details, God is in those details you know!? The photos from http://www.rubyd.com.au/ make me smile.
That is always a good thing!!
So go on and have a peak at this talented girls website or check out her on Facebook, golly I love facebook and the way it connects people.

She has a great online portfolio, I had to share the pic of the Kombi.. because frankly my children and I have a serious obsession with one, my only diversion is that it would look that great rocking up to the private school in every morning.. call me vain.. I am really vain.. but I'd one for weekends.. a-la Jamie Oliver style...anyway I digress....

Go and check out this girls work.. you will be glad you did!
http://www.rubyd.com.au/