Creepy or Cool

I found this - heavenly dreamlight candle holder from Matt Blatt (here) and kind of fell in love.

Can you just see three of them lined up on a hall table somewhere with their little tea lights glowing and casting shadows on the face...

So what do you think - and they very cool or do they just creep you out.

My office votes creepy but to be honest - I think they are kind of cool

Retaining Done

Well the retaining wall has been completed - oh yes that's right. We now have a fully retained wall retaining ... get this another retaining wall.

The good news is I love how it turned out and I'm so glad I went with the grey to contrast so nicely with the limestone.

Now I'm just waiting for the earth worker to come in and finish off the block clearance properly and we will be all go on the pool front.

Finally some progress.

Nice House

I brought a bit of house porn on line the other day - Its a book called "Nice House" and for me its all a bit dream like.

Do people actually live in these heavenly little cottages?

Oh I want it all so much... look at the shingles, the white that is just everywhere.... oh oh oh

Anyways - today its just a few pictures of my favorite houses but on Monday I have found a true Hamptons beauty... who would have thought I would be so over the moon happy about a tiny little book.

If Heaven Was A Wall

This picture would be it.... its just lovely and calm and peaceful and interesting.

My only worry with it is wouldnt it gather dust???

Half of a Retaining Wall

Well as of this morning I have half a retaining wall... they have to hand dig it out because my earth worker is an idiot but at least we have movement ... sort of. Even if its almost a sideways slide.

Im Not Overly Fond of Earthworks

Why oh why did we decide to build....... That is the question both my husband and I keep asking although he glares at me darkly when he asks because really this is all my fault.... (I may have brought the block without him really having a look at it)

There is a bit of good news .... my retaining wall contractor John is lovely and is actually quite nice to look at so I was happy to wait on site and talk to him today.

The other good news ... the sewage pipe has been moved and unless someone runs over the fence its now pretty safe from destruction.

The bad news is ... my earth worker didn't really get close enough to the wall. They said he would be about 2m away but he is really about 10m away which is disappointing. It means my retaining wall company will have to dig everything by hand which will add a days and $1,500 dollars onto the already spirally budget and schedule.

The other bad news is ... the builder are not going to touch the leach drains. They want the owner (That's us) to deal with them.... so I'm hoping a friend with a bobcat can help me remove them late this week.

That is all - its not all doom and gloom but its not great. At this point I'm just tired of earthworks... why cant I have my slab.... All I really want is a slab.

Drama's on Day One

Day one of block clearance.... should be easy right - just alot of beach sand to push around ... WRONG!

We found these little lovelies about an hour in......

What could they be I hear you ask.... leach drains that run the length of the property. These are from the 40's and are so strong I'm sure you could use them as bomb shelters if we ever had to deal with world war three.... the big issue is they actually go right up to the retaining wall and no one is comfortable digging that close.... so I'm not 100% sure whats going to happen, we have a supervisor figuring out the best way to deal with them but its not a great start.Also - they found and destroyed a sewer pipe connected to our front neighbours property. Wonderful right, lucky for us it was an old unused one but we also found the used one and have discovered we need to move it so it doesn't affect the new retaining wall... So day one over and we have major additional earth works costs and over $1,000 in plumbing. YAY for building....