Room Update IV

Finally... the finished product!

Cubes were built and installed over the space of a week. Bijou is enjoying his new stand.

Giant Cluedo Birthday Party

Ella's wanted a murder mystery birthday party which slowly evolved to a real life cluedo birthday party. She spent numerous hours planning the game, the food/dinner and party bags.

She created invitations assigning each guest with a title and colour. There was Professor Lily Black, Miss Anastasia Scarlett, Countess Maija Plum, Princess Aoife Peacock, Mademoiselle Hannah Emerald and Lady Ella Grey.

The lounge room was transformed into a cluedo board. Small areas were designed to represent different rooms - library, kitchen, conservatory, study...... Murder weapons - rope, candlestick, copper pipe, dagger...were hidden in these rooms.  Ella made the people, rooms and weapon cards specific to her game.

Games Room

Library 

Conservatory

Secret Passage

The guests, all beautifully dressed, arrived and the cluedo game began. While the girls were solving the murder, Andy and I were busy preparing the roast chicken dinner as requested. An hour passed before the game concluded and murder solved...perfect timing for the dinner to be served to the guest at the fancy decorated (by Ella) table.

Post dinner, the girls and I plunged into the next game - Unlock. An escape room type game. The girls had an hour to escape. Although they worked hard to decipher the clues, the game was too small and difficult for 6 girls to feel included. As a result, the group splintered with 4 girls desperate to complete the challenge while the other two proved to be a distraction so we called the game to a halt and opted to have dessert instead! They then spent the remaining time chatting and mucking around before parents arrived.

 

Another fun and memorable party!!

Brotherly Snuggles

We are loving receiving lots of photos of Jesse and Tobee. After spending a few days apart (Tobee was in NICU a little longer than Jesse), the boys were finally reunited and enjoyed snuggling together. How cute are they.... can't wait to meet them.

I'm not the littlest anymore!

Michelle and Daryl's twin boys arrived today - Jesse Derek and Tobee Jeremy!!

 

Katy was so excited to hand over the title of the littlest cousin to Tobee (who came our a few minutes behind his brother).

Ella sprung into action - deciding to make a patchwork blanket and toy for each of the boys.

Room Update Part III

Three coats of Coral Blossom was needed to blot out the beautiful Swift blue. Although I was sad to see the blue go, the Coral Blossom brought a sense of calm and softness to the room as well as complementing the timber floor.

With the painting completed - including priming and two coats on the ceiling, it was time to see if the desk fitted! Installation was nerve wracking but went off without a hitch. Now for the finishing touches.

Mothers Day Flowers

Creative bunches from the girls!

Room Update Part II

With the arrival of Bijou Ella had to take down her 100 origami cranes as they were a hazard when Bijou wanted to occasionally fly around Ella's room  The cranes hung on varying lengths of string which were blutacked to the ceiling. It was in June 2017 that the first few cranes made their debut. Then a month later with the help of Annwen, Ashley and Nathan the remaining cranes were added.

 

Over the past 2 years, the cranes have remained requiring only a little maintenance when the odd one or two fell down. Unfortunately this also meant that blutack had two years to leave oily marks on the ceiling. Thus as part of the room update we added ceiling painting to the list.

Ella and I took another trip to Bunnings to peruse the colour swatches for the feature wall emerging some time later with a test pot of Coral Blossom.