shades of green....!

Petty jealousy is really very boring!!!!

and not something I normally suffer from

...thank goodness!

BUT... 

a wonderfully eccentric friend 

rang tonight for a chat

and half way through the conversation said

go and check out where I have been staying!

so I did

and I could so see myself lying by the pool

enjoying a wee pre dinner drink

then settling in for the night

perhaps grabbing a good read of the shelves

and day dreaming

after lunch in the shade before another dip

or wandering through the beautiful gardens

so I suggested next time she went she had better take me!!!

                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                        all images from here

Alas....too late

 as it will probably be sold

she replied

So

 just slightly

 tinged green am I!!!!!

Goodnight

Family history AND a beautiful home!!!!

My family has a history with the

Hunter Valley
  

do you remember Ambrose and Bridget Rotton?
their Grandson, a few times removed,
Walter Rotton arrived in Sydney,
 via Tasmania, in 1821


He had quite a history
 which is a story for another time
 but he was one of the early settlers
 in a town called Maitland 
and he had a beautiful daughter
 named Jane (Granny Singleton) 
who in 1844 married a gentleman
 named John Singleton
John's father, Benjamin, was one of the first settlers
 in the beautiful Hunter Vally
 and in fact the town of Singleton still carries his name.

 SO


I was looking for somewhere to live in Singleton
after all it does have a lot of family history
and I found

 Hamilton Park here


Again, out of our price range at $799.000

it sits on 85 acres (and has horse yards Renee!)

the gardens are spacious

and the pool and it's surrounds

are big enough to cater for my entire family

You guessed it!

it's that red again

but in this instance they have carried the same
colour almost all the way through

with lots of white I don't think it is too heavy, do you?

even the bathroom

Although someone in the family obviously didn't want red!

I have that dressing table and at present I am wondering
if I will paint it white, yes...no?

I am not sure about the red carpet but heck I'm not going
to be that picky!

I really love this house it has that look of being there for 
a while, I love all the white and the red and most of my
furniture would fit in


Now all I need to do is win the lottery
 so we can have some money to live on


goodnight

Looking for something new!

here's hoping

when we actually start looking

for our new home

that something like this 

is still on the market

at first I wondered about the posts only half painted

 but as I keep looking at these I like it more and more! 

I just love the open spaces the white
 and the mellowness of the timbers

and whilst I keep hoping that this will still be available here
(not likely!)
the sad fact is that we could not afford it anyway
(sob, sob, sob!)


goodnight

lovely surprises

Macarons

the eating and making off

have become my new passion.

The last lot I made were just about perfect

 and if I could upload our images from our camera

 I would show you

 but we do seem to be having just a wee problem with that.

 Every time I do so the computer goes into fatal error and crashes!!

Anyway that was not the point of this story

The point is I went to check a page 

I knew I had bookmarked on the making of Macarons....

to compare of course!

I searched and 

I searched and

 one hour later I found!!

Do you have 100's of bookmarked pages?

because, really, this was ridiculous 

I didn't even remember what half of them were

so slowly and painfully, I checked each one and went

 delete....

delete...

delete...

whoa stop there OK you can stay...

delete...

delete... 

and so on till I came to this site here

These images make me think of summer and family

 and I just wanted to throw open my door

 and welcome these rooms right in

I am only half way through the bookmark file

 so I will now trundle back and see what else I can find

who knows 

there could be all sorts of beautiful things

 still waiting to be rediscovered!!!!!

Goodnight

if only.....!

Sometimes you come across

a series of photos that just take your breath away

These do it for me

I would like to think

 that I could live in a house that looked like this

but then I have to be a little realistic

 and realise that with our animals,

my total dislike of housewifely duties

 and our lack of finances to pay for someone to do it for me

that the best way to enjoy this place

 is just to bookmark the site here and visit regularly 

I love the pale timber floors

 and the brick

I love the minimalist look

I love the modern furnishings

and I am so not a modern girl!!

I love the wall paneling

I love the touches of gold

I really love the bedroom

I just love all of it

Do you like the look? 

Goodnight

          

Its all in the eye!!!

I could pretend

 this post is about candelabra....

I could pretend

 this post is about floor treatments...

I could even pretend 

it is just about beautiful rooms!!!

 A bit fussy, a bit floral...

but couldn't you just walk in here,

 have afternoon tea with the girls 

and stay for days?

whilst the blokes

 are in here

 with their whisky and sports

This room is so terribly proper

 and exquisitely pretty

but I would be terrified I might spill somethin!!!

I bet

 there have been some wonderful

dinner parties here!

and I love

 the way this kitchen 

changes with the seasons!

winter...

...summer!!!

and now I can go to bed happy

 that I have finally seen all these photos

 in all their glory

 because today

I 

got 

my 

new 

glasses.

They make me a bit sea sick

 and I am holding my head at a funny angle

and I am sure the left lens is wrong!!!!

but

 Mandy tells me I will get used to it

 and 

I

 CAN 

SEE

  AGAIN!!!!

so now I can tell you

 this post

 is all about the few photos 

in my real estate files 

that I could never

 blow up big enough to see !!!!

 thank you Mandy and Mar

Goodnight