Above is a view from top of stairs looking towards porchway... and below is the view at the bottom of the stairs looking towards the porchway...
Below is our 'nursery', okay so I must stop saying that!!! It is going to be a spare bedroom/study. Currently it is this stunning pink/purple stipey room with crayons all over walls and stickers everywhere... fetching huh? I can't wait to paint it a lovely lemon white warm colour...
Here is our AMAZING oven, the people before us left it, it was sticky with grease but since taking this photo Tim has scrubbed it with special professional cleaning stuff and it has come up mostly shiney new!! We will clean it a few times over with this professional stuff and it will be good as new. At least it is useable now, and means we didn't have to buy a new oven of our own, fab! The people also left a dishwasher... how cool is that!!
Our kitchen looking towards the back door that leads to our garden, can you see our shiney dishwasher in the corner!?
View from kitchen window, as with the rest of the house the garden also needs a lot of work!
Well planning is done and I am now going to go to bed extra early to try and be awake enough to cope at school tomorrow... I SO don't want to go to work...

BYE xxx

More photos!!

Above is our amazing fridge freezer! Our very own!! It is really sad the things I find exciting now...

Below is our dining room looking towards the lounge.
Here is the dining room looking towards the kitchen.
I did have loads more photos but my blogger is being silly and won't download them, I will try again tomorrow. I suppose I should try and do my planning for next week. I keep putting it off... BYE xx

Morning,
I had such a good nights sleep in my flat, I can't wait till our new bed arrives and we can sleep on that in our new house rather than the hard, uncomfy sofa bed! Here is our new lounge... do you like the deckchairs? Nothing beats pizza and wine in beakers!
Our lounge looking towards dining room and kitchen. There is a rather tasteful 'bar area' on left hand side...
Me cleaning!!
Our make shift bed in the 2nd bedroom, we will be moving to the finished room as soon as our bed arrives and we put it together next weekend.
Our bath, it was leaking so Tim had to peel off the old sealant stuff from around the edge, then put new stuff on and sorted the under side of sink and bath pipework! He is a clever boy!!
My dirty cupboards in the kitchen... GROSSSS!!!!!
And the sparkling cupboards now!! I cleaned a lot this week...
Well better go, have to go to tescos and stock up this week ready for going back to work... boo hoo! Then doing planning all afternoon. I hate going back to work after such an exciting week off. I just want to be back in our house with Tim. Chat soon, Gemma xxx

So we have now officially bought a house. We completed on Wednesday and started straight away with decorating our first bedroom. Tim has been sooo busy fixing things, we keep finding new problems to fix... it is definitely a project and a half! What have we let ourselves in for...

Seriously though, we are really enjoying it but is HARD work. It will be amazing when it is all done but that is a year or so away yet. We are just doing a room at a time decorating wise. We have cleaned the whole house, although it is so dirty we will need to clean over and over again to get it really spotless. Tim has cleaned our amazingly huge oven, dinner parties here we come when our dining room is no longer flurescent pink and blue!!

So here is the sequence of photos showing the one room we have finally finished decorating!

1st coat of paint
2nd coat of paint, you could still see blue through it, we have learnt for next time to put a thick base coat on first!
Final coat, it was starting to look good now!
Me glossing radiator, I had already finished window sill then I did the skirting boards.
Finished glossing doorway, was soooo gross before!
Tim changed all the power sockets, TV ariel plug and put a new light socket on ceiling then new cable and lamp... Here is our new bedroom ready for bed to be delivered on Monday!!
So Tim is currently there starting on 2nd room, the study downstairs, we will be using it as a lounge this winter whilst we sort out the big lounge which needs a lot of work. He will stay till Monday to put together our new bed and then come back here for the week. We will go back next weekend, then Tim starts work a week on monday so after next weekend we will be living apart.... boo hoo...

Better scoot to bed now, I am shattered. I also pulled my back putting on my jeans on Friday so am now in agony. Oops!

Night night xxx

My jigsaw that I finished yesterday. I am such a geek but this wintery weather really brings out the Christmassy excitement in my blood and I just couldn't resist this puzzle.


Poppy, she is SO cute! Tim wouldn't let her sleep on our bed but I let her jump on for a quick cuddle, don't tell Tim!!



Hello,

So lots has happened since I last wrote. I got myself a job!! Starting in January I will now be a Year 4 teacher in a lovely school near my new house. I am very excited about relieved it is all sorted. Now I can enjoy my last 8 weeks at Milverton and look forward to all these lovely new things happening in my life!

We had Tim's sister Annabel and her husband Peter come and stay with us last weekend. They bought their gorgeous dog Poppy, who was very well behaved! We took them out for dinner and had a really lovely time.

House stuff is going very well indeed! We complete in 2 days time, yey!!!!! Tim and I spent this morning walking up and down the isles of B&Q buying all sorts of handy things to clean and deocrate our new home. I can even start seriously looking for my kittens too, I guess they will currently be inside their mummy's tummy so will keep an eye out for adverts and RSPCA website!

I had a great Saturday with Laura and Fiona, we went shopping and had lunch in town. I think I will really miss the location of our current flat, being so close to restaurants and shops but am looking forward to being in the countryside too!

Better scoot now, big excited hugs from me, Gemma xxx

Me, anna, kate and helen


Archie, Kate's lovely cat (made me want mine even more!!)



Me and anna (above) and Helen and Kate (below) on bus into York.
Hello there everyone,

how are you all? I had a fab weekend with my uni friends, Anna, kate and Helen. We had so much fun shoping, eating, drinking and chatting! Kate has just moved into her new house so was great to see where she is now living and it gave me lots of ideas for how we may decorate our house!

house stuff wise it is all ok, waiting for a completion date now, it is very nerve wracking hoping it is all going to go through ok, fingers crossed it will be soon!!!!!

Well I have now desperately got to get my planning done ready for this week. I have a really madly busy one ahead with parents evening!! argh!!

Chat soon, ant if you are reading this please update your blog or call me!!! Hope the hangover and injections are feeling better??

Gemma xxxx

Hi,

I have been poorly all weekend and today. I hate feeling ill, just gets me down. I am starting to feel a bit better but not much, hopefully after a good nights sleep.

House stuff all going ok as far as we know. It's this whole waiting thing that is tricky, we don't want to get our hopes up but at the same time it all seems to be going okay. Just want to complete so we can start buying paint and do it up!!! so exciting!!

Just thought I would add a few cute kitten photos as Tim has told me as soon as our house is all sorted I am allowed to get my kittens!!! YEY! I think if we can find some to pick up just after Christmas, on our way back from Tim's parents then that would be fab! I want two really cute ones!!! (I don't think it is possible to get an ugly kitten, they are all soooooo adorable!)

well no gossip as you may have realised! chat soon, gemma x