Colour Inspiration

           

    

I have been driving myself, and James, crazy with decoration ideas for our place. I am super happy with our new painting purchase for our bedroom, and using those colours to inspire (or 'inspirate' for any of you watching My Kitchen Rules) the colours we use in the bedroom. I am now, however, super confused about what to do in our main area. I really like our new bedroom colours, and kind of want the rest of the apartment to have similar colours, but not the same, if that makes any sense at all. I don't think I like any of the colours we original chose as our colour inspiration anymore, so I've been doing a bit of pinterest searching. Above are some of the colours I am really loving at the moment, they are very fresh and happy, and I love them...BUT I know that once it become winter and dark and cold, I will want home colours to reflect it...Oh I'm so confused! I really do overcomplicate things. I always realise how silly I am with my overcomplicating when I write posts like this...

In other news, we have recently discovered Darling Harbour puts on a firework show about three times a month, so our balcony looking out towards Darling Harbour is pretty awesome, and once we get some chairs and a table out there we can be sipping G&T's watching some fireworks, living the high life.

What we bought

I can't quite remember when I came across COZAMIA's art, but I've loved it since then and have always wanted to own a piece. I was following her blog, but she is currently moving it so I signed up for her newsletter. Today I got an e-mail about her art being on sale in Australia. I showed James, we decided we loved this piece and order one. We're going to put it in the bedroom, I think the colours are gorgeous and calm. We're pretty excited. :)

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!

I'm not an all out Valentine's day person, but I do love an excuse to spoil loved ones. That said, I've not done much spoiling of James today. We did get ourselves some yummy gin and some steaks. Yum yum, we're spoiling ourselves rather than each other. :)
I also received a package from a good friend of mine today, with the shirt I'm wearing in the photos in it. It's a gorgeous shirt.
We've also had a wonderful day at working, baking all sorts of goods and having an afternoon tea with the parents.
All in all, today has been fabulous for me so far, and I hope your day will be just as fab!

What's Up in My Life?

38/365 - What our bedroom looks like at the moment. There's not much there, but we love it. 

39/365 - We went out that night, not much time for a photo. I love my colourful tape though!

40/365 - I bought some gorgeous fabric from Ikea to make some cute room decorations for work. 

41/365 - We also bought the little side table we wanted from Ikea, and I spruced it up a bit with some fabric. Then today I got a cute Koala USB stick for work related things.

What's up in my life?
I've been getting into work early this week so that I can do some laminating and decorating for our room. The flower mural is coming along nicely.

I came up with the super cheesy idea of adding roots to our flowers. We will then put photos of the children's families in the roots as part of our whole 'belonging' thing. You know, because their roots are with their families and now they are belonging to a new group, our Nursery room/our centre.

James' dad started his new job, which means he was in Sydney so he came round to see our new apartment, and then took us out for dinner. Apparently his office is bigger than our apartment. We're 22 and have one income, he is in his 50's and a CEO, I am not too bothered by this.

The Toddler roomleader is annoying us in our room at the moment. We're trying to sort it out.

James surprised me with a bubble bath and candles this week. Was very sweet, and very relaxing. :)

We have two new babies starting in our room next week. They are babies, and not tiny tots, so not on solids, not walking, all that jazz. This means we will have three babies, thankfully, we'll only ever have two on the same day. One of them is allergic to dairy and soy, and has also not been switched to a bottle yet...so it will be interesting.

We went shopping! I have missed shopping so much, been not buying things for quite some time because they aren't super necessities. I got more shampoo, and extra deodorant so I have one for work and one for home, sunscreen because it's sunny when I walk to work, face cream, face wipes, nail varnish (just because), two SUPER comfy pairs of black trousers for work (seriously the most comfy trousers I have ever worn, they are so easy to move in too!), a bubble gun, the cute USB stick above, a new To Do list pad, cute A5 notebooks for me and my colleague to write notes about our focus children in, cute pens to write said notes with (cute stationary makes work WAY more fun in my opinion, and this stuff is strictly for our room!), and some whiteboard markers and crayons for our day of the week clouds where we will be displaying photos of what the children did that day (means we can write the date on them in fun colours!). There was quite a bit bought for work, but most of it was for me to use at work...although walking through the kids section of Ikea I was so tempted to buy LOADS of toys for the children...I resisted!

We have a massive TV. After getting the bond, the first thing James wanted to do was buy a new TV. I let him. We now own a 42" TV. It's HUGE, like 4 times the size of the one we had before. Haha. It's pretty cool though.

That's been my week. :)

Another 365 Update

35/365 - Lime and strawberries. Yummo!

36/365 - I got paid AND we got the bond back. Yays!

37/365 - Prep for our flower wall. :)

I finally got paid. Apparently I wrote my bank details wrong, but it's all been sorted now, yay! We also got our bond back from our old place, so we currently feel like we're swimming in money compared to the $30 we had in our bank accounts. So, we're pretty excited! 

Other than that life has been pretty normal. :)

Videos I am Currently Loving

These two are absolutely adorable! AND there are more videos. So super cute! I may have spent half an hour today watching them dance...time not wasted, in my opinion.

On my lonesome

34/365 - not overly colourful, but it is golds/coppers/creams, pretty colours.

James has gone back to Canberra, for the Super Bowl, so I am alone for a couple of nights since I have work. :) Whilst I do love James' company, it is nice to have time to myself. I don't get much alone time, I'm either at work or at home with James. Walking to and from work is the only time I kind of 'truly' get to myself. So, I am enjoying time on my own. I've done some tidying, had a nap, made dinner, done the dishes and enjoyed some TV. I enjoy the quiet and calmness that comes with my own company.

Tomorrow I'm thinking of having a nice bath when I get back from work, and maybe painting my nails. It's nice having some time to myself. :)

More 365

29/365 - The results of the painting I did on my day off.  

30/365 - lots of hugs from the kids at work makes me feel pretty loved.

31/365 - Technically not my photo, James took it, but with my camera and to show me, so counts enough for me. He did have some 'better' photos, but I love this one.

32/365 - It rained a LOT yesterday.

33/365 - A little insight into whats on our bookshelf. 

In life related news this week has been a bit...odd. I loved my day off, and been really enjoying being back at work. My Nursery colleague and I have been making a lot of progress in finding a routine that works with all the children and their sleep and eating needs, we've also got some exciting ideas for decorations and holiday arts and crafts that are coming along nicely, so it's been feeling very positive at work. However, I've got issues to sort out with work. Wednesday was supposed to be pay day, but I have yet to receive any pay, which kind of sucks since we were relying on it. Apparently everyone actually gets paid on the Wednesday, rather than the money going out that day, so it's quite concerning, and a little frustrating that I have to sort it all out. Otherwise, lovely week. :) 

This photo stuff is proving to be a challenge...I really struggled to get photos this week. I may find myself doing a whole bunch of colourful pictures to photograph as photos for the day, which isn't all bad, but not quite what I had in mind.