Windows and Blinds

We've got blinds... and they were a BARGAIN!


Last weekend we decided to call into spotlight to check out the prices of curtains and blinds etc for the house so we could organise some blinds and see how much they were going to cost. Little did we know that they just happened to be having a clearance on some of the blinds that are no longer being made anymore and those coloured blinds just happened to be the colours we were after! YAY for us!



The finished product.


Our bargains... you can see the bright orange clearance sticker... Well most of those were further marked down. We got 210cm x 210cm blinds for $7.50.. BARGAIN. We've decked out the whole house with blinds and they only cost us about $200.00 for all the blinds. Then i found some curtains that were on sale and picked up some of those to finish the rooms off... YAY. Spotlight has become my new favourite place to shop and Orange stickers are my absolute favourite!

This blind cost us $2.00....


and this one cost us a whooping $9.00


I got all the blinds ready to be installed. Some of them needed to be trimmed down a little to fit some of the windows and I have become exceptionally good at trimming them down with the venetian blind cutter that we bought that cost us $5.00... more than some of the blinds!
While I trimmed the ones that needed trimming Glen put them up. Turns out I can't reach the tops of the windows to install them!


In the front rooms of the house we bought some chocolate blinds to offset some of the beige brickwork etc. They were also on sale. This is the one in the computer room after it's been installed. I will take some others when it's daytime but this is all I have so far.



On Thursday October 28th Glen and I went to another spotlight to go and pick up a few more blinds after work. We got home at about 8.00PM after finding more bargains and I did drag Glen around all the store to look for orange stickers to see if we could find anything else we needed that was on special...
We we got home Glen and I were bring in the curtain rods and blinds and stuff we bought when I heard Glen say - We've got a broken window... I was sure he was joking... but i went rushing in anyway.. and sure enough... we had a broken window in the lounge. Man was I not impressed... my first thoughts were... how can we have a broken window already - we've only been in the house not quite 2 months, then I was thinking... we can't even get a glazier out here to install a doggy door. How on earth are we going to get a window fixed... and then.. who did this!



The Window


The culprit! I sent Glen next door because with all my CSI skills we were able to work out that the rock looked like it had come from the neighbours yard... So Glen trudged next door to check if they'd mowed before I went and knocked on the neighbours doors to ask if they'd seen any kids throwing rocks.


Turns out the neighbours had been mowing and a rock decided it wanted to come and play in our house. YAY! We like visitors! Once we knew what had happened it was onto checking with the insurance company to see if id signed up for a window replacement on my policy or not... I hadn't and silly me i remember thinking... nah I wont get that. What are the chances I would need a new window straight away in a new house... DOH! Anyway the insurance company were really helpful and said O'Briens would come to any location nation wide...


We tapped up the window - on the box was from the bargain kitchen stools we bought! Thanks fantastic furniture!


Shards of glass make cool patterns







The visiting rock.


The mess

So I called O'Brien and they came out the next day. The guy spent a grand total of 30 minutes installing a new window in the frame and that cost $321.00.... All my money saved on curtains went to replacing a piece of window 70 x 140...





Computer Repairs Brisbane

We're selling up!

We've decided to sell our block of land at Echuca. If anyone's interested please contact either Glen or myself for details.

Here's a few pics of the 7 acres after all the rain.. it looks so green and lush and it's the first time in a long time that the billabong is full.

Green Grass and lots and lots of it!

More Green Grass...

The road to the gate.

The billabong all full and Looking lovely

More Billabong

And more

Chewi checking out the sites on the drive.

Only 5 mins from the Murray which has now got some water in it.

Mr and Mrs Fairbrother 16th October 2010

They did it. They got married and everyone had a fantastic day!
Here's some of the images from the day - sorry they're in backwards order. I forgot that this site puts the images in reverse loading order - SILLY ME!

David and Peta Fairbrother

David and Peta, getting ready to cut the cake.

Dad, David, Peta and Mum

David and Peta

Peta's Family photo - Sorry Ann - every photo I have of you your blurry! You move to fast!

Peta and David during the ceremony

The celebrant, Peta and David

Emma, Peta and Jess

The wedding cake

The table settings. They made all the hats themselves and they were a awesome. Well done guys!

David - Blue Steel!

ME, Glen and Lisa.

Me and Glen

Simon and Lisa

Me, David and Lisa

Congratulations David and Peta. It was a great day and I'm sure everyone had fun.

It's Been A while....

It's been a while since our last post - Sorry. We've been busy. We've had a few visitors come and go and it's been lovely to see everyone... Sadly - i haven't been that great at taking photo's! OOPS!

So we've been in the house just over a month now and we love it! We've settled in really really well. We've been starting to plan how we can get all our stuff back up from Melbourne... It's been hard to get quotes to have stuff shipped when you can't actually remember what you have there... it's going to be like Christmas when we see all our stuff again.... I love presents!!!!

We also realised yesterday it was 5 months yesterday (06/10/10) that we will be getting married! The time has gone so fast. We've been so occupied with the house building and moving and all that stuff that we haven't really done too much - so now it's time to get a wriggle on and get some stuff decided!

Here's a few pictures for you to see what we have been up to in the last few weeks.

Remember when we were at frame stage and Glen laid all those cables for the internet? Well here that are now that the house is build. Glen has put the cables all together and labelled the patche panel ready to go in the cabinet.

Then on the other end of those cables were all the wall plates. We have 18 data points throughout the house with 2 of those being outside.... you just never know when you'll need to google something!

Glen putting the finishing touches on the communications cabinet. Then we neatened up the cables and put the modem in there too! All very neat and so high up that i can't get a picture of it all finished. You can't see it from the photo's but glens kneeling on the fridge to put this all up!

Then after we got all teh cables in and the wall plates in. The modem went in and it was time to test drive the computers and use the fast internet again... but then my machine died. Lucky i live with the computer tech.

So I explained to the technicians exactly what the problem was. They seemed not that interested and like they'd heard it all before.

They opened the machine up to get a better look and saw straight away what the issue was.

They explained the problem to me and told me they were going to need to call in a specialist. One with opposable thumbs for a bit of help!

The specialist was fast and efficient. He did his work under the watchful eye of my tech.

After they'd inspected his handy work it was time for the finishing touches.

I guess they're nearly finished at this point. There was alot of snorting and coughing so it must have been a little stinky in there.

Then i guess there was a part leftover. There usually is when you pull something apart and put it back together again. They assured me it would all be ok. And it's running much better now. Thanks Spike and Chewi - you're the best computer techs ever!

I also took a few pics this morning of all of our small furniture in our nice big house!

From the front door looking through to the kitchen.

All the kitchen and out bargain kitchen stool.

Out tiny dinning table in the family/meals area. Can't wait to get my 8 seater up here!

Laundry.

Master Bedroom

And that's it for the moment. We're heading down to Melbourne in the morning for my brothers wedding on the 16th of October. So I'll have lots more to update you on and more pictures when we get back.