a weekend in pictures

friday evening we took a walk up into the hills just outside of town - gorgeous light at that time of night, wallabies hopping around, and not too freezing!

for some reason on saturday morning, i got up early (i hate mornings) and dropped the better half off in woodend to go cycling, and then continued up the road to kyneton to have a look at a couple of garage sales. turned out one was a guy i see at auctions quite a bit, clearing out his shed - so i picked up these lovely things

i went home to clean and photograph some stock, then headed up the road again - this time to the Kilmore gaol auction house, to see what was on offer for the sunday auction. a quick stop at the romsey op shop (gorgeous door above) got me a 1970s sydney atlas to make some more Herbert Co prints

the gaol auction house is beautiful, old stones and trees and statues. some great ammunition boxes, cameras, wind up clocks, bottles, leather bags, old leather chairs (looking for a beat up one for ryan's office) and a few other bits and pieces of interest

i put in an absentee bid, the first time i've done so. turns out i was successful on the 8 ammunition crates (that included a bunch of ceramic insulators and some random tools), the box of bottles, and the gladstone bag...

today saw some garden time, putting the potato crates in position to make veggie gardens and cleaning up the yard. then a trip into melbourne to watch friends race some muddy cyclocross...

brilliant!

xxx

a weekend in images

a fabulous weekend, very rare sunshine in melbourne (with super frosty mornings - you know it's cold when you have solid ice on the INSIDE of your bedroom window)

first off was pruning all the roses (note: i have no idea what i'm doing except for following mum's two rules of pruning HARD, and keeping a gap in the middle - chop off anything growing inwards). mission was accomplished with only minor rose thorn injuries (really must buy some good gardening gloves instead of bareback hands)

herbie spent more time outside than in the past 3 months combined. now we both work from home, he spends his days going from bed to couch to fire to suitcase in office with heated pad and back again...

managed to get out for a big walk before the sun went down

then some important baking - these were "heavy furniture moving cookies". bribes for the husband and in-laws who were very kindly stopping in to help move the second ridiculously heavy 1940s pigeon holes into my office/studio in the post office

dug out some glasses for the lovely trish hunter to have a look at - and note to any interested parties that i'm selling about 250+ vintage eyewear (no time now to open a third etsy shop as planned!)

sunday morning saw a trip to woodend for an auction. a last minute decision not to race mtb bikes gave me a husband auction buddy - his first one, and it was a very 'blokey' auction, with lots of tools and chainsaws

a handy decision giving me lots of muscle power, since i bought 7 big wooden crates, an old pie warmer (below), a brownbuilt locker (above), and finally, some old potato crates to build our veggie garden

very excited about the veggie garden - i've been on the hunt for some suitable (local) ones for a year - now i have NO excuse not to build the veggie garden. next job after that is to convert the old wooden cubby house into a chook shed...

sunday afternoon i cleaned out all my stock from the kiwi fruit crate pigeonhole shelving currently in the post office (and now for sale) - piled it onto the verandah - and then with not too much fuss, the four of us manhandled the austin hospital kauri pigeonholes into the post office, cms to spare! this will give me a lot more storage room, and get the piles off the floor!

and they're amazing - love them!!

marnie xx

a weekend in pictures

it's been a while since i hit the blog, and so much has happened since my last post - too much to detail - so let's just hit the photos!

friday saw Paul the Electrician back to put in the last two industrial pendant lights - they look fabulous!

I also went and dug through a garage on friday to retrieve some fruit crates and a multitude of suitcases - including a wooden one that was used in the 50s when the family came out to australia

some cute drawers are going to a shop in melbourne to use for shelving

my better half and i then went to woodend on friday evening for a beer tasting at the local wine store - these are great, look like wine but are just big beers!

i had to work on saturday (i.e. as my environmental scientist job), but it had a vintage slant to it - Second Hand Saturday trials, which was very interesting 

a blustery day, but i didn't get rained on (much!)

mum has been doing some vintage hunting for me too lately, and she picked up these great archive boxes and old bottles, plus a sky blue tv tray

saturday night saw a bit of custom prints/framing for Herbert Co. - these are a 21st present from some lovely folk in Dubai

Herbie kept warm in front of the fire all weekend

I keep calling this a meat safe, but it was actually a cool box as it's lined with aluminium. it was pink, and i hadn't yet painted it, but with the addition of red industrial lights, it was time. so much better now...

and while the paintbrush was out, the clothes rack on a pulley in front of the fire got a lick of paint so it would blend into the walls a bit better

sunday afternoon was spent at the folks, chopping firewood in the rain, then a family dinner in front of the fire before my family depart to various places around the world over winter

mum is always nagging me to get rid of more of my childhood 'stuff' from my old room at home - so i did. my enid blyton books now grace the new pigeonholes...

hope your weekend was lovely, and warm

marnie xx

bits from my old office

i took some snaps before moving out and leaving the room to become a man office...

bits from the shop, bits from our wedding, bits from my days as an eventer, bits salvaged from the wood shed of our first home, bits from my mother's youth, bits from our travels, bits for a dog, and a room with a view - what more could a girl ask for?

marnie xx