A Birthday Celebration

We had a special celebration yesterday, it was my mother in laws Birthday...Happy Birthday Mum!

Here is my mother in law with Jake, I am so lucky to have her as my mother in law as she is a wonderful lady!

We decided to take her out to one of our favourite places to dine...Victoria Restaurant which is situated at Victoria University down at Sunbury Campus. Our new block is only 10mins walk from here so I dare say we will be visiting regularly!

This is only one of the beautiful old historic building on campus which dates back to 1890-1915...you truly need to see them if you are in Melbourne...they are stunning!!!

Can you believe these buildings used to be the 'Lunatic Asylum' from 1879-1968? The actual building below which is the restaurant was the Men's Den....weird to think people flock here to experience wonderfully delicious dinners these days.

And I suppose you cant have a Birthday Party without a cake can you? mmmmm!!!

I promise to take more pics soon and I am intending to go on a tour around all the buildings and see some of the old plans...cant wait to share!

Pretty flowers? Ouch!

I can not believe I done something really stupid today...I was sorting out my spare room and found some big pink Christmas flowers I had planed to make wreaths with this year...so I pulled the heads of the flowers off the metal stems and put the stems on the ground...well...this is where I am stupid!!! I walked over the stems (which have metal rods inside) thinking I had shoes on...well...I had slippers but the metal rod went straight thought them as well as my foot....OUCH!!! What pain my poor foot is in!!! Oh well, that will teach me wont it?

Anyway, here are the pretty flowers which caused me grief!

Oh, and a few weeks ago I was lucky enough to win a beautiful blog giveaway from Miss Ali's.

Take a look at these beautiful cards....

Thankyou so much Ali, these are truly beautiful.

My rose garden is looking so lush green with lots of buds so I'm going to leave you with a pic of my first Pierre de Ronsard for the season...gee I love these roses!

I'm off to rest up with this foot of mine...take care until next time. xo

Finally Decided On Our New Home!

Hi everyone, hope you are all well and enjoying the school holidays...we sure are!

I am so pleased and relived that we have finally come to a decision on what our home will be...we wanted an old cottage style look with an open plan living and were having a hard time finding the right one...always one thing or another! So we sketched out the plan that suits our lifestyle and are having it drawn up by a builder who has the sweetest cottage homes.

Take a look at this~

This is already someones home (sadly not mine lol) but I have gone for this same front but with our floor plan. I cant wait to get a move on things but I know its going to be awhile till we start as our land has not been released yet and wont be in a hurry. Oh well, the main thing is that the preparations have started for our new home and we are all very excited about it!