I'm back and raring to go! << room interior

(playing around with my hall table)

Well I'm back from my week break, the kids go back to school tomorrow and I couldn't be happier lol. No seriously, we all had a truly lovely time. We spent our days basically lazing around the beach and the house, cooking up bbq's and eating on the balcony as we watched the sun-setting over the lake :) I guess it wasn't all lazing around, we did also manage to spruce the bathroom up with a fresh coat of paint. I get bored after awhile if I have absolutely nothing to do.

I also had a night at the Opera last night with my mum and sister to see 'The Pearlfishers". It was my first opera and I LOVED IT! Thats another thing I can tick off my "things to try before I die" list lol.

I took the following images of the little lovelies I bought at the fleas today. It was such an amazing spring day, the sun was shining and the merchants were out in abundance. There were many bargins to be had.

I had to have the beautiful blue and white willow pattern vase for my new bakers stand and the white Greek bust was similar to the souveniers I actually purchased from Greece except she was only $1.00! We wont talk about what I paid for them over there lol.

The gorgeous tea set trio is only Japanese but I loved the colours. My second favourite score of the day was the delightful vintage lady head vase. I've often seen them come and go on Ebay and couldn't believe my luck to find one at the markets for a song.

A couple of quirky little items that were only a couple of dollars was the little embroidered floral bouquet and the miniature brass scales.

Of course my favourite buy of the day were these two amazing original rose paintings. I'm assuming they're vintage due to the condition of the frames and the filth I had to delicately clean off. I think they look better without frames anyway. They're actually supposed to lay horizontally but I prefer to display them upright :) aren't they lovely?! I could have sworn they were Gail McCormack originals until I saw the signature at the bottom of another artist.

I also wanted to include in this post a few photo's my stepmum sent me of her and dads farm in my beloved southern highlands. No matter what time of year this property ALWAYS looks spectacular! :)