Starting to design our new house

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve started talking seriously with our architect about the design of a house for our block.  We like the idea of the pavilion style around the top of the hill, will be very private and catch the great breeze in the afternoon. 
These are only sketch designs, still a lot of things to sort out with the internal layout, but we’re happy with the general idea of the house. 
Site Plan

Site Plan

Floor Plan

Floor Plan

Elevations

Elevations

Ecovidual @ Brookwater Markets

This Sunday 18th October, Ecovidual will start trading at the Brookwater Markets.  As an introductory offer they are offering a 10% discount for purchases from the markets.  Come along and check out some new products just in time for Christmas.

Crazydog Studio

Leigh’s brother, John Thompson, has setup a website for his Crazydog Studio.

Here’s a few samples of his work…

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Rites of Li, Young Magpie

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Crazydog Studio Emma

Where has the year gone?

Wow!!!  I can’t believe that its already September, where has the year gone?  Has it really been 9 months since I posted anything?

We’ve been trying to sell the rental property in Indooroopilly for ages with no luck, hopefully someone will make an offer soon.  This has stopped any progress withgetting a house built on the Anstead block.  We’re really excited about the concept that the architect has come up with and are really looking forward to living there, but we’ll have to wait.

We welcomed our first born in to the world on the 22 July, a little boy we’ve called Thomas.  What an interesting time we’ve had adjusting to our new lives as parents.  I’ll get some updated photos of Thomas up soon.

Leigh’s business Ecovidual has been plodding along ok and is about to expand it range, so keep any eye out for some great new products.

Ralphie

Ralphie @ the farm

Bathtime

With the thermometer hitting above 35 Ralph thought it was a good idea to jump in the bath to cool down.  Luck for us it was the old bath out the back and not the one in the house.

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Working the land

Over the last couple of weekends we’ve been doing a few things on the block at Anstead.  We’d had the road fixed up a few months ago, but a few storms have made short work of it, so we decided to put some drainage in to divert the water.

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