16 Monday Jul 2012
Posted in Home
I’m giving up the radio work. I’m giving up the writing work. I’m even considering hiring a nanny and giving up some of the mothering work.
Instead, I’m turning to furniture revamping. Is that even a business? Should it be Furniture Revamping?
Either way, this is what I’m going to do with my life from now on. For I now know, I have missed my calling. I have an untapped gene of Furniture Revamping-ness within me which I’m going to embrace in my future. Continue reading »
09 Monday Jul 2012
Posted in Home
I live in a small rented cottage with my husband and my toddler. Because we’re saving for a deposit for a mortgage and because our daughter is only just two, our house is rather chaotic and shabby.
Most of our stuff consists of cast-off items no longer wanted by friends or relatives. We can’t paint the walls the colours we’d like, because we don’t own them. There is constant mess.
I don’t like living this way.
The thing is, we recently decided NOT to live this way. We earn enough cash between us to actually have nice things and save. OK, so we may not be able to paint, but we can put up shelves and spruce up old furniture. As long as this is our home (which it will be for a while longer at least) we want it to be a nice place to be. Working 70 hours a week has to have some benefits.
So we’re starting with the bedroom. Continue reading »