sausage dogs

garden.

Very exciting. And very good that some of our best friends happen to be in the landscaping biz!

to do list.

I bought this cute little plant stand for $10 at a market on the weekend, score! So I went and found some pots and cute plants for it today. Still undecided about the bottom row, any suggestions? 

This was one of the items on my "to do" list, but I am clearly having problems prioritising. Get pots and plants for stand: check. Buy some newborn clothes for the baby to wear: fail. 

My list has also been hindered by a weird bout of gastro earlier in the week. I've not had that before - I don't recommend it. I think I got off fairly lightly, but because I'm packing a baby everything is slightly more of a drama and had to go into hospital for some IV stuff because I was dehydrated and poor bebe's heartbeat was high. Then whilst being monitored they noticed I was having regular "tightenings". Uh oh, I could see where this was going. But thankfully not! We managed to get out of there and everything settled down after a long rest. Anyways, all good now. Tomorrow I shall definitely do something important on my list.

garden.

I'm embracing my inner 70 year old and getting back into the garden.. as Tim likes to say "it's a riot of colour" at the moment.

i like..

.. these pretty roses growing in our garden.

garden update.

As mentioned before, we finally got around to landscaping a particularly rubbish section of our little courtyard garden. I managed to sneak some plants in before it got too warm, and now it's looking even better. 

Before:

Then:

Now:

anniversary weekend.

This weekend Tim and I celebrated our pretend one year anniversary - it's pretend because it's really next weekend but we will be busy then. To mark the occasion we stayed in a hotel in the city and saw Mary Poppins the musical. Hot date, i know. But Mary Poppins SO good, I've never been in a more excited audience. And Mary Poppins flies up into the air. For reals. It was lots of fun, nice to hang out and stay in a hotel, we pretended we were on our trip again, and that Naples was outside the hotel instead of a whole lot of drunk teenagers dealing with the realities of the 2am lockout law.

We also did a wee bit of landscaping. Romantic. Picture it with lots of pretty flowers and a big pot in the middle with fish in it (I know, genius). 

I also managed to sneak off to the Finders Keepers market, along with every other Melbourne girl under 35. It was very excellent, but seeing as pay day was 3 weeks ago I was very restrained. Though I did get a Frankie diary (which yes I could get anywhere but their stall had doilies. Doilies). It's very beautiful, I am particularly enamoured with the endpapers. Love. Almost as much as my husband of almost-one-year, happy pretend anniversary Tim!