I have been busy moving my books and the remaining belongings from my parents home to my new house, here is my wee reading room/ study with some of my books in it. I have more shelves to put in and need to get a desk too. I'm also looking out for a large mat and some bean bags too for relaxing and reading. Have you a reading room or study???

A few photographs of my new home. The first one is my retro radio which I got in Argos of all places and beside it is one of my dolls. I picked up two of these in a second hand market for €5.00. The second image is of the shower room window, note tiles on the right hand side need to be finished. The third image is of my large light fitting in my entrance hallway which opens all the way to the roof as you can see the sky light at the top. This is a major focal point in the house. The final image is of my dining area, it still looks a bit bare but I will add to it. I got the fishermans light in IKEA.

Hello everyone,

So I eventually have time to blog. Since the New Year, we have moved into our new home, we're really settled now; kitchen, snug, utility and shower room are all completed. I have a few accessories to get but that is on hold for a while. I have also got a new job which I am really happy with and enjoying, my office is small and really cosy :) So next thing on the "to do list" is get married. The wedding is in three weeks time! I have the dresses sorted, just need to get mine altered a wee bit. All invites are out, flowers sorted, cake sorted, food sorted, cars, rings, etc. I just have to buy my shoes soon and get my hair sorted. No honeymoon planned as my other half is a farmer and has a lot of work on with cows calving. So in three weeks I will be a farmers wife! I'm living life to the full in the countryside. I'm looking forward to getting married and have time to relax and also do some more work around the new home. At last I got the lead to charge my camera so here are a few photos from around my new home. The snug still looks a bit bare but I will upload more photos again for you all!

Still waiting for internet connection at my new home so I haven't been around blogland lately. Very busy organising the wedding. Hope you are all keeping well and hopefully I'll be back in blogland soon :)

I miss catching up on all your blogs : (

Today we stopped by Argos and bought this mirror for my downstairs toilet. I thought it was pretty. Hope you all had a nice weekend. It's great just to get some time off work and time to relax. 

Here are a few more of my new neighbours when  I move house. 

Some images of my new home below. We are still waiting to get the electricity connected but apart from that we can start to move in. We are really looking forward to it. I have been designing my wedding invitations tonight too :) I think they are looking nice too, if I must say so myself.

Canopy and tiles in the kitchen

 New wood beam in place. I am picking wallpaper for the two side walls, rather than paint the walls different colours. 

New stairs in place, there are men varnishing them this week, they are almost finished. We haven't decided if we are going to put carpet up the middle yet.

Doors varnished, the glass is ready to be installed this week. 

Things are progressing so quick. I have so many things to do this week, the list is getting longer day by day. 

Some more images of my new kitchen and utility. The middle photograph is the utility and the other two are of my new kitchen. I am still awaiting the legs for my canopy and my washing machine. Hope you are all having a nice weekend. It's a bank holiday here in Ireland so I'm really pleased about that :)

Here is the double doors leading to the sun room and the snug from the dining area in the kitchen. My table will be positioned under the fisherman light fitting. At the minute the electrician has the light up high but when work finishes it will be lowered to go over the table. Sorry for the poor quality photographs.

Here is a photograph of my new cooker and canopy. I am awaiting the hob to go in yet and then it will be tiled at the back

Here is a view further down of the kitchen. This photograph is taken from an unusual angle but you can see it anyway. Again there will be tiles under the units and there are some bits of the walls still to be touched up with paint.

Here is a photograph of my island, again the lighting needs to be fixed to the right height.

Here is my dresser on the opposite wall, it will have glass shelves in it. 

So that's a quick tour of my new kitchen. Once the hob is in and the tiling is done, there is just a bit of touching up on the paint and that's it complete.

Take a peep through the hedge and look what you will find :)

Yes... My new home :) 

I will update you with some photographs soon.

There are still items to be finished off including the doors which we are waiting on, the stairs and the light switches/light fittings

Today I went to look at some bedroom furniture and I saw this range which I think I will buy? What do you think of it? What type of furniture have you in your bedroom? I also got my floor tiles for downstairs delivered today :)

Hello everyone! We have a long weekend here in Ireland and I took Friday off work too, It is great to just get some time to do some work of my own. Yesterday we went to Ikea and I picked up the above cabinets from the Flaren range- well at least I think that's what it's called. I also picked out floor covering and possibly the tiles above to go along with white tiles. My bathroom is painted nordic breeze which turned out blue so I have to work around that now. It is nice enough though. What have you all been up to?

Sanded old chair

One undercoat finished yesterday. I also gave it another undercoat today so hopefully tomorrow I will put the top coat on. This chair is a set of 4 old chairs that was hiding away in the shed. I hope to put a nice cushion on it and it should look nice in one of my new bedrooms.

Hello everyone. I have been really busy with work and the new home. Last weekend I had a wedding and party to attend. We are still painting away in the new home, looks like it is never ending. The good news is, I now have the wood burning stove installed and have yet to see it though. I will take a trip up there today and take some photographs to share with you. I have been thinking about my kitchen which is ordered now and I really want some oilcloth for the kitchen table. So here are a few of Cath Kidston oilcloths which I love

{All images from Cath Kidston}

Yes I will soon be at the stage that I will need to pick light fittings. There is such a large choice and I really get confused but I was thinking of some of the above lights for over the island in the kitchen. As our ceiling is 16 foot in the hallway I need a large light and here is the one I am thinking of.

Yesterday I was away looking at wood beams for over our stove in the snug, I have picked a pine one out so once the chimney and fire surround is completed we will be installing the beam. I hope it looks as good as the beams below :)

Here are a few images of my new home which is progressing ever so slowly. Inside it is almost ready for plastering. I am ready to pick my front door too so the exterior can then be plastered. This week the roofs were slatted on the two single storey sections.

Here is an image below of the snug, to the left hand side, the stove will be situated.

And here is the entrance hallway which is double height. I have yet to look at stairs and banisters for the landing.

I spotted a bargain in Lidl this week. I generally don't buy in Lidl, I like to keep my shopping local but I must say I really like this country style desk in white. The shelves on the top can be sepertated from the desk as well. I might just have to pull at the purse strings this week and buy one of these for my new home :) Hope you are all enjoying the weekend.

Here is the progress on my new home so far, the main part of the roof is now tiled and there is a velux window in the middle over the porch. We had the electrican around early in the week so at least things are beginning to happen again. The weather held us up a lot. The windows arrived yesterday. I won't get to see them until the weekend as it is dark by the time I come home from work. I will just have to wait!