Quick as you please

I miss my blog! I miss my email! Whaaa! If I owe you an email, I am sorry. House preparations (wallpaper stripping, sugar-soaping walls, painting etc) consume my entire waking time. There will be a proper update after the easter weekend. Until then, I hope your weekend is more peaceful than mine and that there is plenty of chocolate coming your way. Don’t forget that this month’s softies submissions are due in a week from today. xx.

New house, day one

Here is our new house. The house of many decks. And remember how I told you that we have a spa and that it is really ugly and that it has to go?

Now you can see what I was talking about

And finally; We have a beast in residence.

The Supermatic! Too tired and covered in grime. Will try and write more tomorrow.

Oh to be a home

Yesterday our people met their people and handed over a bunch of cheques and now we are the proud owners of our own little bit of land and a funny weatherboard house in the suburbs. As soon as it was confirmed, I went over to the real-estate agent and picked up the keys and took Mum and Grandma over to see the new house. And, wouldn’t you know it, the guy was still in it! Curses! It’s a lucky thing it was just me and my mum and grandma standing there feeling a bit put out and not me and my family and a huge truck full of furniture with a couple of pepped-up moving guys who are charging by the hour. Anyway, Mr Previous-home-owner promised to be out this afternoon… and was just leaving when we rocked up at 6.30pm to have a look around. So now it is really ours. It feels weird – I can’t even imagine living there and feeling like it’s home but I guess that comes with time and a huge amount of paint.

And now, some more links. Today’s theme is “North, South, East and West”… a bunch of assorted delights. The main thing they have in common is that I feel some affinity with them despite our different paths.

Firstly, North.
Kitchenette: She lives here in Switzerland! Lucky girl. Family life, food, and great photos of a life so similar yet so far away. Like many other mama-bloggers I feel like she is a good friend just from reading her blog.

South? South of what? South of me is hard to do… so I am picking South Australia and Hop Skip Jump: although I haven’t been reading her journal for a terribly long time, I feel as though Fiona is possibly a long lost twin sister of mine who lives in Adelaide where I spent my childhood. We share so many interests and our little girls are two peas in a pod… Audrey & Amelia.

East is Momo – Momo Freaks Out: I have been lucky enough to meet Miss Momo when she was an editor doing editory type things in Melbourne. Now she lives in Japan and on monday she met The Very Cool Little Boy Who Lives in a Temple. Momo Freaks Out is, in my opinion (and many others’ too I am sure), one of the best blogs on the web.

And West? 42Short: James lives on the other side of the world with a different kind of life doing different kinds of things but I can’t help but feel some familiarity in his words. I’ve been hooked on 42Short for ages.

Gulp!

Big-P just rang to inform me that Loobylu has won a 2005 Bloggie for Best Designed Weblog. I am totally dumbstruck – Totally! While I will acknowledge that I can do a cute drawing from time-to-time and sew a mean pear – best design? Best design? My fellow nominees are Karen, Jason, Brooke and Shaun so you can see why I feel a bit undeserving right now. Trust me, this is no false modesty — Errr…. Thank you if you voted for me – I really appreciate it. Wow! Just don’t look at my source code, as daniel will back me up, it’s ugly in there.

Also, hearty congratulations to some of my favourites Shauny (hooray!), Heather (how many awards can one girl win??), Tom, Boing Boing and Rannie!