Here's another old image that I've just come across, thanks to Museum Victoria. It's of bullock teams between Talbot and Amherst, circa 1900.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Da-da ... the kitchen doors are in
Some of the finishing at the edges is still to be done, but the patio doors Dad scavenged for the kitchen are now installed. They're centred between the two verandah posts which will (eventually) have steps leading down, and are exactly the style that I'd hoped for.
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
A collection of ideas
I don't have time at the moment to research these, but didn't want to lose them. So here is a random list of various things that have sparked my curiosity about trying when we finally get to Amherst:
For the garden...
Decorating the house...
For the garden...
- Growing our own hop vines
- Finding out more about growing irises - "they like to bake" sounds promising...
- Using hollowed out books as planters - bizarre but quirky
- Indigenous plants for Murray Valley - but Tiff says some of them are same for ours.
Decorating the house...
- George Washington's paint colours - this might be an interesting reference
- Another painting idea - using photos to decorate the wall - tape on and then cover with plexiglass, ala Martha
- This Arts and Crafts shop looks brilliant
- Even better than blackboard paint is this new white paint that turns any wall into a dry-erase whiteboard
- It could be interesting to jerry-rig something like these magic windows using an old computer screen for an inside wall? I think I'd skip the necklace bit though...
- Even better... just fit a slot for an iPad in a kitchen cupboard and then you can use it for recipes, listening to music, checking mail... I *love* this concept
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