House hunting

House hunting

Our friends are currently looking at buying their first house so we have been looking at some with them. They saw a house and really wanted to look at it but knew they would not buy it because its in the most expensive suburb in Melbourne. Its a 4 story house with 6 car spots, I love looking at expensive houses but I have never been in something like this.

I really liked this place was because it had a cigar lounge and home theatre room.

Also the elevator had alligator leather in it.
Have you ever been in a place like this?
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Dale

Random Meal

Random Meal

We are starting to cook at home more often and try to cook random meals, we bought random veggies and decided to make a Korean type soup. We bought a tub of sesame and garlic bean paste.

We put about 2 liters of water in.

Once the water started to boil add your paste and mix it in. It does not matter what veggies you use just cut them up small so it cooks faster.  We took 500 grams of premium mince  and spooned them into meatballs.

After putting in our meatballs we let it cook for a few minutes then added the veggies. We added this chili sauce to add some spice

It was a great meal to warm you up and is cheap to make.
Have you tried using random to sauces to make a meal?
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Dale

Enjoying Free Time

Enjoying Free Time

A couple of months ago i came across a blog as i do randomly and he is a photographer His name is Jeff . I really liked what he did and especially like the photos of a water and wanted to achieve the same thing. After reading his blog i ordered a Circular Polarizer filter. My filter arrived today and  I don't often get a chance to go out after work and enjoy the weather but today was a perfect day. I finished work at 4:30 went home grabbed my camera and went straight to the beach. The temperature was 99F with a cool breeze. I also remembered when my friend gave me his camera he gave me a spare lens so i took that with me to play around with it. The Circular Polarizer filter (CPL) removes the glare and gives you a sharper picture. 

 

 

I had some photos from last week that i had not put up yet so i decided to load them up as well.

 

 

 

Which photo do you like? I love the Sausage dog one

I hope these brighten up your day.

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Dale Stewart

Top Paddock

Top Paddock

Our friend had been here and told us the wait outweighs the food and coffee. But other friends wanted to go anyway so why not?

They arrived at 9:30 to wait for a table for 10 am. We arrived at 10 am and there was a huge wait outside. Thank goodness they had gotten a table inside.

They have a great selection of coffees, we got two pour overs and they where good.

 I took a photo of the alcohol menu not the food menu lol

The food was good and so was the coffee, It was nice for a change but i would not go back especially for the wait times. There was over an hour wait when we left.

How long would you wait for a table?
More photos on their Instagram
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Dale Stewart

 

Ikea Hacks

Ikea Hacks

When we moved from our unit to our house we needed furniture so we went to Ikea and bought some blue book shelves. It gets to a point where you just need to change your furniture so we have seen all these blogs and pictures on Pinterest about Ikea Hacks. We thought why not and if we don't like it well we buy some new shelves.

So the first step was to wipe it down and then give it a light sand.

 Use the finest sandpaper you can get, then wipe it again. The only Laminate primer we could get is White Knight and it is very watery as it is water based so it wipes off easily if you get it on you. We let it dry for a couple of hours. Because it was really hot it did not take long to dry.

The next step was to use the White knight Laminate paint. We got it tinted black so we could match our other dark furniture. Laminate paint is very thick and heavy, it also stinks really bad so make sure you have ventilation...

It takes a long time to dry so make sure you give it a couple of days.
Kim really wanted to put laminate wood on the side, so we measured the sides and went to our local hardware supplier and got them to cut the sizes we needed.

We then oiled the wood to give it deeper colours, we had oil from Ikea so we just used that.

After letting that dry for a few hours it was time to glue it to the shelves.

We glued the wood to the shelves and used heavy boxed to weigh it down.

The finished project.

We are happy with what we did.
Have you ever tried to do this? Paint your furniture or anything like that?
Leave a comment.
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Dale Stewart