Organising with Martha

Martha Stewart that is!

Officeworks stocks a range of stationary products by the one and only Martha Stewart. I LOVE Martha Stewart and often find myself watching her videos or reading her blog. So I was thrilled to find her products stocked locally in Australia. I just had to get me some so went shopping with little miss while the boys were at school today.

Granted, the little box on the top left isn't from her range but I needed it for an idea I had.

I also got these two storage boxes for $12.77 each to hold the kids school artwork and other papers.

I used the label plate to pretty up my letterholder that I talked about here. And now it looks a bit more finished off. But I really should print out some labels for it.

Then I used that little box to store our random business cards that are scattered in different place around the house. Also, there was enough room in the back of it to put our random earplugs and small cables that were previously making the a mess of the basket on the shoe cabinet.

I used the Martha Stewart blackboard labels to stick on the art boxes for the kids.

Lately, the folder is stuck on the wall near hubby's temporary work bench to keep the plans. Which I couldn't even find at the time to stick in there to take the picture. So now I just have to make sure he remembers to put them back there so we don't keep losing them.

I also made a pit stop at Bunnings to get a key cut for the side gate (for my newly labelled key cabinet) but also had to collect some samples of paint colours and charts. Just something for me to think about for down the track.

Happy Tuesday everyone,

 







Floor and wall, sneak peak.

Wow! The weather in Melbourne this weekend has not been reno friendly that is for sure. Stinking hot at 40 degrees ad probably even hotter out on site with the heat off the paver and flooring. However we did get some wok done and it is still going on as I type at 8pm on Sunday night in 36 degree heat. At least the sun has gone down now.

Yesterday we laid as much of the yellow tongue flooring as we could. We couldn't do it all because we had to leave room for the steel guy to put in some extra steel stuff near the existing house walls. But this is how much we got down. And it ain't coming up anymore.

I even had a turn on the nail gun believe it or not.

So this is a sneak peak of the start of our first bit of timber wall.

 

 

Tomorrow, my baby boy starts school so I better go pack a lunchbox for him. My baby is growing up so I am feeling a little nostalgic tonight. Hope I don't cry at drop off tomorrow and even more importantly I hope he doesn't. Be brave little man!

 

Cheers,



 

Sub floor....tick!

Yesterday we had the steel guy come back again (*sigh* this was meant to the finished 4 weeks ago) to move the posts to the correct spot. He turned up on time which was a bonus and was still here when I returned from work.

So he did move them to the correct spot and also made sure they were level this time as they were 2.4cm out last time. Hopefully they are correct now.

Here is the posts set in position, not to be moved again.

He still hasn't finished all the other work he has quoted us to do so we are not to pleased with him right now. One of the things he has done was this small bracket/post thingy.

So we need to get a list of all the things he still needs to fix/do and email them to him. Apparently his mistakes have cost him a lot more than he quoted so he isn't playing very nicely right now. Makes it difficult to deal with and makes me quote anxious.

The surveyor dropped in today to check the subfloor. We got the tick of approval to start fixing the floor in place and start building walls. Yep, you read right; we can start building proper walls now! I feel like doing a little gig. :)

So tonight, Dave ran to the hardware shop and bought some glue to start sticking it down. Got a tiny bit done. Here you can see the glue.

Then it was put in place and nailed.

We got these too end pieces done tonight before the kids called Dave in to play cricket. It is Summer after all!

Have a nice weekend!

Cheers,