My theory on housework is...

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? Erma Bombeck

I love Erma Bomeck, I just wish I could be as easy going as the quote above. Unfortunately, when I sit down, even if I have been busy tiding, there is a part of me that notices the dust, and the things that still need doing, and it's usually about that time that my very household efficient sister-in-law comes to visit.

Ah well.

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Family faces are magic mirrors...

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. - Gail Lumet Buckley

Every house where love abides

Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home sweet home
For there the heart can rest.
- Henry Van Dyke

I think I've found the next Frangipani House

I think I've found the next Frangipani House, here it is in Byron Bay,

now all I need is the $8 million to buy it... to see more pictures, you'll have to go to...
Real Estate.com.au

Clear Vision

I loved this email from Daily Word.com today on Clear Vision

I establish peace, love and abundance in my thoughts and in my life.
Just as I may allow clutter to accumulate in a closet or drawer, I may allow thoughts and feelings to accumulate in my heart and mind. Some of these thoughts may be useful, but some may be error thoughts that crowd out space for new ideas.
Today I do not delay the task of looking and seeing with clear vision what is true and what is error. I hold my thoughts up to the light of the Christ within me and claim only those thoughts that resonate peace, love and abundance. I discard and clear out any thoughts of fear, lack, disease or unworthiness. Clearing frees me. By establishing peace, love and abundance in my thoughts, I allow God's good to fill my mind and heart.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.--Psalm 51:10

Baby Sun Hat

How adorable is this sun hat? Our creative friend Nillin made it - you can buy one at .madeit.com.au... what I love about it is that not only does it keep your little treasure sun safe but it is also hand made and has lots of love sewn into it.Sun Hat click here

Never be ashamed of tears

"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts." Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1860

Golf Questions

Golf Questions

Jill: I just don't understand the attraction golf holds for men.

Mary: TELL me about it! I went golfing with my husband one time,
and he told me I asked too many questions!

Jill: Well, I'm sure you were just trying to understand the game.
What questions did you ask?

Mary: I thought I asked legitimate questions . . . like,

"Why did you hit the ball into that lake?"

from Mountain Wings.com

Decluttering our Frangipani House

Well I am a very happy girl today, I finally got around to decluttering our junk cupboard. Do you have one of those, you know where all those interesting bits of mail seem to gather, the things you need to get around to, things that need to go back to the shop etc? Ours also contained keys that I have no idea what to, broken bead key rings that I mean to get around to repairing, glow balls that change colour, a personal recipe book from my uncle's mother written in the 1890's that I want to type up and share with the family, numerous RSL art union tickets (as in the home pictured above - one day I hope they call me to tell me I've won), seed packets, need I go on? I decided the New Year was a great time to get to and sort out those little areas of my life that haven't quite made it into the order that the rest of the house is finding. Little pockets of stagnation - time to go.

On Organize Your Life - Organize Your Home it is suggested that we should have 3-4 declutters a year. Just prior to Christmas the electric walker was donated to charity, we had good intentions when a friend was giving it away and thought yes, just what we need, we'll walk when it's raining - we'll put it under the deck and go down and walk - no we didn't. So eventually it just got dusty with all the building work we have been doing and I thought it best to give it to someone who could use it.

So today I am off to the office, and decluttering there, I have that many CD's with information storage on them, I have to work out what to do there yet.

So Happy New Year - how's your clutter?

Take time out to unwind today

Take time to relax today, even if it is for a two minute break, on your own, take time to stop, let your thoughts drift, and simply focus on your breath, breath in and breath out.

The image of the home featured above, plus more gorgeous shots... visit...
modresdes.blogspot.com

Cute as a button for a birthday...

Just decorating our home for a birthday party tomorrow, and as I was looking for some ideas for birthday bunting... look what I came across... how cute is this birthday wreath? It is from The Creative Homemaker... click here now I am back off to the supermarket for more balloons...

Happy New Year for 2111

Happy New Year for 2111 - well I wonder what this year will bring. Along with my goals and hopes and dreams for the year, I hope that it will bring us all, friendships, love, caring, fun, sharing, hope, laughter, and great surprises. May you and your family be richly blessed.