CandyK's Profile

Love the tip about putting cash in your phone case - I'm def doing that!

Many Years ago, before wipes were so readily available, my mum would pour disinfectant into a canister of 'wet ones' wipes, and we'd take them when we went trekking in Nepal.

When we renovated our bathroom, we had to say goodbye to the laundry 'chute' the previous owners had installed (Brilliant design - on opening, one of the drawer fronts had an angled bottom that emptied into a cupboard in the adjacent laundry)
We didn't have space for a laundry hamper in the new design, so I had a lightbulb moment, and turned one of the shelves in the bathroom cabinet into the dirty clothes section. Bottom shelf has clean towels, top shelf has dirty laundry. It just means that there isn't undies and socks on the floor, and it's never in there long enough to get smelly, as every day or so I just empty into the bedroom hamper as I carry it on the way to the Laundry.

Ooh nice. For those in the US - you could use a freight forwarder. I'm in Australia and not much gets sent down here. Have used freight forwarders with much success from both the States to here and also from the UK.
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Is that a dentist lamp I spy near the couch? Cool...

tell us more about those adorable cats - they look quite at home in the sunny chair!

oh, if only banana's weren't the price of gold over here in australia at the moment.....!

My daughter received this for her birthday - it is exactly like whats in a diaper/nappy.
Its got the gross factor for kids, but its not actually that much fun to have a bath in.
The kids said 'this is actually pretty gross, I don't think we'll do this again'!
I think its better in a tub for hands to squish in rather than your whole body in it. And yeah, at 12 bucks a pop its pricey.
There's another sachet of something that comes with it that you're supposed to sprinkle on it to dissolve it when you're finished - but we just used a hand shower to flush it down the plug. Its not too bad to clean up, just leaves the crystals everywhere, and a few goes to actually get them all down the plughole.

Off topic - but what font is used on the first picture? Thanks

I love the hall cupboard/light box, and the rest of the house.
I also love a house tour with captions with the pictures - its so much nicer to read about the room as you are actually looking at it
(And Blandwagon when I had my baby I had a double bed in hospital - so my husband could stay with me - I'm in Australia!)

I do get what the poster is trying to stay - in that loads of the party pictures going around the internet seem to have the following;
*labelled water bottles
*cupcake labels
*a dessert table where everything is colour co-ordinated

They do look beautiful though, and I think having great photos for your kids to look back on is an awesome thing - and I'm sure the kids wouldn't mind if they weren't there. But as a mum I love to do it - its my present to my child.
I think the problem would be if the child was demanding all this colour-coordinated stuff that it was going too far. But kids just want a cake, candles and friends over to run amok.
All the rest is for the grown ups.

lupinelle, I painted a piece of furniture turquoise, loved it - everyone else in the house hated it - got passed back to my mum and my dad spent ages stripping it back to its original wood...
don't they get it? I must get them reading this site...
I still long for a turquoise cupboard.... ;(