Overwhelmed

I should warn you up front this is one of those mellow dramatic posts that I will probably shake my head at days later but right now .... this is how I'm feeling.

Today I have reached my limit- everyone has one. That point where there is so much angst and emotion bottled up you feel like your going to explode. So you hide, you dodge, you avoid anything that might just tip you over the edge. Because your on the edge, you have reached that point where anything, even something tiny, might push you to the point where you just lose it.

So picture me standing on the edge of a cliff, one leg hanging out the side me waving my arms wildly trying to get back into flat ground.

So I'm dodging, avoiding and trying very hard to find my equilibrium ... bring on the island of calm and peace!

House Update

Well - last week bricks were delivered to site and on Friday I had window frames, door frames, sand and these lovely big steel bearers ... So exciting, things are moving forward and im hoping to see vertical progress at some point this week!

Weird and Wonderful

Matt Blatt have just brought out a new range of weird and wonderful items. What do you think ... weird or wonderful?

Personally this one has a nightmarish quality about it .... Weird

I really like the shape of this but how soon would before the stripes got "tired" - boarderline

This one I love - I can see this hanging from the roof in a little boys nursery - Wonderful
Look what we have here - remind you of anything I recently brought? - Wonderful

God knows what you would do with this - definitely Weird

This has a lovely intellectual quality to it - I want it on my library shelves - Wonderful


This one leaves me a bit lost - no idea what it is or what you would do with it - Weird

Brilliant DIY Idea

You know when every so often you come across something that is truly just brilliant. Well I found another one - its all about Antique Books and using them as wallpaper - this is truly beautiful - I have this lovely little wall where my library ends which I would love to see covered in this.... totally completely brilliant.

I want it now!

To Paint or Not To Paint... That is the Question

One of my online friends is agonising over flooring at the moment. See like me she wants something a little bit different when it comes to her house. She wants white wooden floors (Hey don't judge, I want to pour motor oil all over mine and make them nearly black!). The thing is and I will admit I am painfully aware of this also - its so final.

To paint a floor, you are covering up the wood and that's lovely, I personally love the look of nice painted floor boards... however you have to ask yourself, will you still feel the same 5 or 6 years from now and if not - how much will you curse yourself as you slowly sand your way across the living area - moaning about how on earth you could cover up the beautiful wood and vowing never to touch a tin of paint again....

So ... to paint or not to paint, its certainly warmer than tiles and it gives this lovely "aged" feel to a building, I just don't know if i would love them and myself 5 years down the track.... my god these decisions are hard!

The Blues!

Well I'm still not feeling settled - my office is constantly streaming the Japanese news, nuclear reactor explosions, another earthquake, huge death tolls.... my heart goes out to everyone including our receptionists who sit and state at this 8 hours a day....

As I said, I'm unsettled and kind of blue ... its like your fixated on the drama, you want to look away but you just cant seem to manage it. I cant get my head around the amount of devastation over there, here I am here in Perth, the sun is shining, I have bricks on my block and somewhere miles away people are trying to figure out where to start rebuilding their whole lives?

So in honour of the blues - these are my favorite pics of blue and beige... how can you not love blue and beige.

Japanese Panic

I work for a Japanese company and on Friday I stood in the lunch rooms on our floor with all of my work colleagues as they desperately tried texting and phoning friends and family stuck over in Japan. It was horrifying for me watching the images on the TV but for them, not knowing if their families and friends are safe it would have been devastating.

These images are horrifying but strangely beautiful, I'm not sure if you can call such a terrible natural disaster beautiful but the images have a sense of peace around them even though its obviously not a peaceful situation.