Good morning everyone, I hope you are having a great week!
I am at home today, normally I work on Tuesday's but both my girls are a little under the weather and are staying home from school.
As I only work part time it is normally Mr Echoes that stays home with sick children. He had something he had to do at work today, so I am the one nursing the girls.
I put on a load of washing, made all the beds, (I really need to change my sheets but they can wait another day or so!) tidied up the breakfast dishes, chose my Roman blind fabric, baked a banana cake...
Did I say, chose some fabric? Yes I did, I am soooooooooooooooo excited! Can you tell? We are starting our main bedroom renovation very and I mean very soon!
Let me start from the beginning. We bought this house a three bedroom, (with living, kitchen/dining, bathroom, laundry) and the potential for a fourth bedroom and small ensuite downstairs.
We started using the downstairs room as a movie room, a mancave for Mr Echoes an adults room for us to relax in, watch movies, sit and chat once the kidlets were tucked up in their beds.
When our living room tv died, we lugged up the one from our movie room. It is a far better tv than we had anyway. We lost our movie room but we gained a better tv for all of us to enjoy but the room became lots of other things...
It became, the family guest bedroom, (they only get a blow up mattress to sleep on, I know it is not great but they keep coming back, they really do like us!), a computer room, an exercise room (Mr Echoes cycles), and a junk room - where everything that doesn't have a home ends up, or is that the garage???
Now, getting back to our reno, we have decided to move our bedroom downstairs so each kidlet can have their own bedroom. Miss Echoes 10, (going on 18.. ) says she is way too old to share with Miss Echoes 5, and truth be told they are kinda squashed into a little bedroom :(
I have been constantly talking at Mr Echoes with all my ideas, non stop for the last 6 months Mr Echoes and I have been discussing all OUR fabulous ideas on what to do with the spare room and the little ensuite bathroom.
It is a total mess at the moment, so I am sorry to say I can't show you any photos just yet, but I promise, very soon!
So, the first little thing I have done is choose the blind fabric for our new Roman blind! I know it is only a small step, but Rome wasn't built in a day - small steps are always good! Well that's what I am telling myself anyway :)
Here are two shots of the fabric, it is hard to tell the exact colour, but it is a creamy stone colour, which will match with the paint we have on our living, kitchen/dining walls.
I hope you like it, the scrolls match our bed which is a bronzey wrought iron style - photos to come...
Back to the cake baking...
I had some overripe bananas and between selecting fabric, I baked a fail safe recipe, which turns out every time! I am not the best baker but this one always gets favourable comments!
A piece for me :)
Here is the recipe if you are interested.
Moist banana cake
250 g soft butter
1 cup castor sugar
3 eggs
3 overripe bananas, mashed
2 cups self raising flour
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy
Add eggs one at a time and beat well between each
Stir in mashed bananas
Stir in sifted flour
Mix well and put into a greased cake tin, cook in a moderate oven for 45 minutes. Stand to cool on a wire rack, dust with icing sugar, then eat :)
Yummo!
Take care and thanks for stopping by! Any main bedroom do overs, or renovation stories to tell? I would love to hear from you!
As always,
I
