Success!!!!!

My game-face obviously worked!!  I received a call this afternoon telling me that my application (one of them) was successful.  I get the keys Thursday next week - I CAN'T WAIT!!!!

It's a small but secure place that's been recently renovated, so it has a nice new kitchen and bathroom.  The bedrooms are quite large - will fit all of the crafting stuff in, and they're leaving the fridge so that's one thing I won't have to worry about purchasing in the next week.  There's no built in cupboards but there are free-standing robes in each room that will stay so that's something.  And with timber floors throughout it should be a breeze to clean - no carpet cleaning!!!

Game on!!!!

• List of open-for-inspection times - CHECK!
• Print-outs of property details - CHECK!
• Comfy shoes - CHECK!
• Knock-em-dead-smart-dress outfit - CHECK!
• Multiple copies of documents for applications - CHECK!
• Positive attitude - CHECK!
• Camera - CHECK!

I've got my game face on and am armed and ready!  Now I just need a truck-load of luck (because we all know this renting-house-hunt game is all about luck and nothing about the application you submit! - too cynical?) and I'm off...

...just have to make a quick but early stop at the farmers market at the end of the street - just to check it out - before I get going :)

What about this place?...

Still consumed by house-hunting... sorry...

I did get make some progress on the Babette Blanket last night - I'm almost halfway through the 2 & 4-round squares - but forgot to take photos.

My Creative Space...

This week my creative space is consumed by Birthdays and House Hunting...  Hopefully I can find time for something a little more creative when the weekend comes.

Make sure you head over to Kootooyoo for other great creative spaces.

It Starts....

Yesterday I took the first step in looking for a new home... I hate open for inspections because the house suddenly gets flooded with lots of other hopeful-tenants checking rooms, looking in cupboards and planning whether their furniture will fit. It also means that you don't get much of a chance to meet the agent or make an impression - and to me that's what wins a rental.

I'm also loathe to get too excited about a place until I know that it's mine because otherwise I get disappointed... BUT the place I saw yesterday would be perfect!!! The right number of rooms, cupboards in the right places, a decent kitchen and bathroom, not to big, enclosed yard, and dog friendly, patio area with outdoor furniture, close to work and in a nice looking area, but the real clincher... was the studio/bungalow out the back! I've put my application in and now I'll just have to wait and see but in the meantime I'll be out looking at other places.

Oh and my cryptic texture/pattern photo from yesterday was...

The patterns that the neighbours tiled roof makes when through a glass tile. Amazing huh!!

Jumping Jumping Jumping!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes I have good news!!!!!!!

We have a house!!. We took a chance and knocked back the house that we were offered first and managed to get one where we wanted within 2 days. It's a lovely house, in a nice place, and what's better is that I've met some new friends there already - who helped us to get the house by dropping hints to the real estate whenever possible.

Whe sign the lease next week and get the keys in the first week of May.

Thanks for you support throughout!!

Dilemma

B has just rung to tell me that we have been accepted for a house. I should be jumping for joy, but...

The thing is I don't know if this house is right? I know... it's a rental... but it will be home for at least the next 12 months, and I'm just not sure.

The first problem is, they won't hold it for us and we need to accept it asap if we are going to. The next problem is... what if we pass it up and nothing else comes along?...

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

House Hunting and UFO's

I won't bore you with the details but for those who've asked, the house hunt continues. We had a slow week last week, with only 2 to look at. We've appplied for one and have an appointment for another, more promising prospect his week. I have my fingers crossed and have promised to think positively that all will work out - it just has to doesn't it!!

I have started packing so that when we do get the word we'll be ready to go. In the process I have been sorting through my things and getting the workroom in order. I am making a number of piles:

• Stuff that can be given away (to a good home) - Mostly fabric, this is stuff that I have moved twice over the past 4 years and still sits in the bottom of a cupboard, drawer, box taking up valuable storage space
• Stuff that I could do without but would prefer to sell at a garage sale or on ebay - this is stuff that I would happily return to the collection should nobody be interested
• Stuff that should go in the bin
• Projects in progress that I either need to finish or undo, cut-up, give-away or otherwise dispose of;

So far the rubbsih pile is still quite small, the give-away pile is growing and the UFO pile is getting rather large.

On the UFO front I've uncovered:

• a cross stitch started before I came to Melbourne, 5 years ago that is so very close to being finished. I've been working on this lately and now only have the beading to do
• 2 part knitted scarves. I finished one of these last night and have vowed to finish the other before starting another knitting project - which is hard cause I want to make some knitted-felted (fulled) bags...
• a quilt that I started more than 5 years ago (again before I came to Melbourne). There are 12 butterflies that need to be blanket/buttonhole stitched, before making up the quilt. I have picked these up on-and-off over the past 12 months in an effort to finish them, and still have 6 to go
• A small quilt top that I made last year - a kit that B's Aunty brought back from America for me. It's sooo close, just needs a back and to be quilted.
• My Japanese Kimono quilt that still needs to be quilted - I've started but think it needs to be pulled out and started over
• 3 T-shirts that I cut out and haven't yet sewed up - really simple, only a couple of seams but.....

This list will no doubt grow as I haven't yet made my way all the way through the room. Perhaps I'll put the list over there in the sidebar and cross them off as I go....