Antique White USA & Warm Neutral = life on the edge!

It's a 5 day weekend in Sydney for Easter and Anzac Day.  Its the perfect weekend to DYI around the house.  So I decided to paint my bedroom. The walls in my house are all a grey white colour and I hate them!  Since I moved into my little unit I have wanted to change them and this is the perfect weekend to start, and as I am doing it myself with the help of my wonderful mother I thought I would start small and with the bedroom.  It should be a sanctuary anyway and somewhere you want to be.  In time I'd also like to change my furniture but first things first right! 

I decided to go totally outrageous with colours and I selected Antique White USA for the main colour and Warm Neutral for the feature wall, very safe, very plain, very me.  I have 5 or so sets of bedlinen in various different combinations of neutral browns, greens or blues.  So the colours I have selected are perfect for my preferred palette.  I'd also really like a white set of linens however I have spent so far 2 years searching for the right one however I haven't yet found it but when I do the walls in my room will be perfect for that too! 

So yesterday Mum and I have relocated 3/4 of my bedroom into my living room (which is driving me crazy but its 3 days and has to happen), sugar soaped the walls and taped all the skirting etc.  Today we did 2 coats of the main colour and tomorrow we will do 2 coats of the feature colour.  I'm excited I can't wait until its done and I can stand back and admire my handiwork.  Its not the job of a professional painter but the work of me and that is pretty exciting!


So before its done here is what it looked like before:

Can't wait to be able to post the after...  Maybe I'll strike it lucky and find the perfect white bedlinen on Monday.

I was all prepared & excited & there was rain...

I was all set to check the first thing off the 30 list last weekend - camping!  


A good friend had asked me a few weeks back if I'd go camping with her and a group of others for her birthday....  "Erm - ok" I say as I knew that I was planning my list of 30 and that I was putting camping on it.  I probably should say that if you know me you would know very well that camping is so NOT my thing.   I've never really been and I was happy this way, I really have no desire to sleep in a canvas room cocooned in a sleeping bag outside in the middle of nowhere - NO DESIRE AT ALL!  Everyone tells me its fun, I'm thinking no no a 5 star resort, cocktails, swimming pools that is fun, sleeping outdoors and cooking on a fire not so much...  So to grow as a person and try things that take me out of my comfort zone camping went on the list.


So I went and bought a tent, a sleeping bag, an esky, I'd even bought a camping pillow and a head torch.  I was set, I was ready, oddly I was excited.  Then the night before it rained, and then it rained some more and as we were about to set off camping got called off.  Thankfully the organisers have postponed the trip and at some stage there will be camping.  But alas I did not have to spend the weekend like this... 

Opps... I'm not good with "the list" already...

Well I am a week overdue in one of the list items, but in my defence last week was a tough week.

Tuesday  I turned 30 which was my scary age. Turns out that turning 30 is pretty good.  I treated myself to a morning at Urban Spa having a hot stone massage and a facial and followed it with an afternoon at the Art of Hair.   Which meant I was preened, relaxed and beautiful for a dinner with the parentals at Spice Temple!  I don’t know which part of my day was the most delicious, but possibly it was the Hot and Fragrant Prawns, nah I think it was defiantly the massage!

Wednesday was the last day working at a company I had been with in 3 different offices over the last 7.5 years.   I thought it was going to be a very emotional day, however it was full of handover and training meetings so there was no time to dwell on the past and get sad as I won’t be returning.  All of which are very good things!  The office sent me off with the most gorgeous bunch of flowers (that I can still smell walking up to my front door) and 3 pandora charms (I’m a lucky girl).  I also had a few last drinks (which saw me strapped to the couch in the foetal position for most of Thursday…  

Saturday I went out with 20 close friends and family for dinner and drinks, I had a great time and got very spoilt.  It was just such a fabulous way to end such an emotional week!