My new favourite house item

Lately I've been really lazy with blogging. ... as well as super busy. 

I took this photo a couple of weeks ago after I bought this super cool skull on ebay.

I love it. I think its too cute. He looks like he is laughing.

Right now he has a twilly wrapped around his head and Im calling him Skulpac Shakur.

I guess you have to see it...

Paired with some roses in a Country Road vase i got a few weeks ago as well. Im LOVING this fishbowl style vase right now....

yucky yucca

When i first moved into my place there was this hideous yucca staring at me everyday. it clearly suffered from a long time of neglect.

gross.

i feel compassion for plants too people! maybe i should stop eating vegetables too?

oxytarian? airatarian? hmm.

water has feelings too you know.

anyway,

i decided to do a yucca rescue and i like to pretend im on guerilla gardeners or better homes and gardens when i do it.

ha!

before photos and after photos:

 i did this all in one day! so i hope it will look better in a month or so when it has time to grow. i gave it some yucca food. osmocoat or something like that!

so if i can make a nice change like that in one day imagine how much better it will look in a month or two.

YAY

much better i think.

i feel better now that its looking nicer. i dont like looking at neglected plants.

:-(

Things i want for the home!

These are a few things i want for the home! I think the only thing i will be getting is this first photo. Its a print on canvas from www.genre.net.au. I emailed them with a request about the weight because i can only use 3M hooks and they were very helpful and prompt. I was 50/50 on whether i would get this but their lovely service made me decide to go for it. Its priced at $250 from memory? and its 740cm high. I think this will go behind the dining table. i will post pics when it comes!

Next is this awesome coffee table. Im pretty sure its replica of something. Its from www.clickonfurniture.com.au

I really love this but i just bought a coffee table from Freedom and i threw out the packaging so i cant return it :(

Of course i would get this in the black below!!!

Next piece is this really cool Alessi ice bucket/vase/fruit bowl/rockship

I love how its just a bit weird. One of my friends has this at his parents house and its a really cool piece that you can use for heaps of purposes.

You can purchase Alessi goods from

www.petersofkensington.com.au/home/

This last piece below is also Alessi. Love it! Pick up Sticks fruit bowl!

pity i never display fruit

or else id use this for sure!

I wish i could master blogspot. for some reason i keep getting blue text and cant post links properly!

ARGH

maybe its cuz im using a mac?

cottonsocks 1 , ikea 0

Last week, I went to Ikea with little lady lost. it was a mission indeed.

i needed a sideboard/buffet. I had been eyeing off one from S&P in high gloss black with the little baroque legs. i dont know if this is what they are called but im calling it that from now on.

anyways, i was looking through the ikea website and noticed they had one that was very simular ( not as nice) but at a third of the price. so i decided to do the sensible thing and purchase the cheaper one.

SO, after lady lost and i found lots of nick nacks to add to our trolley we went to the warehouse section to pick up the sideboard which would be told would fit in my car . BOY THEY COULDNT BE ANY WRONGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEERRRRRRR.

it didnt even come close to fitting in my car. and we could hardly lift it.

so a call had to be made.

get it delivered in a few days and pay more $$$? NO! THEN IKEA WINS! THATS WHAT THEY WANT!

with an hour before closing i had to make a decision fast.

I ring my dad

" Does Ms Blogless have our work ute"

dad  : "yes she does. why?"

*beep hang up*

ring ring Ms Blogless

"Ms Blogless. I NEED U IKEA RICHMOND ASAP BRING UTE"

YAY

she comes and saves the day. w00t w00t

then i get a call from Freedom 

" your coffee table has arrived. come pick it up from melb central before we close in an hour"

EEEEP

STRESS INDUCED HEART ATTACK

i buzz off to the city

Ms Blogless races to richmond.

and an hour later all my goodies arrive at home safe and sound.

BUT THEN

we realised

argh.

this is in a million pieces.

i always thought that ikea things came in like 4 pieces and u pop them together like lego.

FUN LEGO

"this will be fun" i thought " i will build this all myself and suprise people with my talent"

ugh

yeah

didnt happen

but let me tell you, Ms Blogless and i gave it a fair go. we got the whole shape of the thing happening and put the doors on ! then i had to get my trusty ol' dad to come and finish the job.

picccccciiesss forr uuuuu

Vacuum purchase!!!

I got a vacuum !! YAY

I decided to get a good vacuum cleaner. I dont like vacuuming so i want the job to be done fast and properly! I thought it would be a good idea to shell out for the Dyson. I think i got the base model though. I didnt want to get too hardcore right away. It might be the DC20. Not too sure!

i got it from Myer. $600 reduced to $504! YAY.

its the greatest thing ever. kind of. After you vacuum your place for the first time with a dyson you feel like youve been a living like a pig in a sty. 

checkkk out the dust just from the living room and the kitchen!

GROSSSSSSSS

One day i want to do my mattress...but im kind of scared to see how ive been living...eeep!