It’s finished! The shed is finally off the ground and in its home on top of the slab.

Built in only two days, here is what it looked like after they left on the first day:

The outside looks a little bit like a temporary builder’s cabin and desperately needs softening up with a stack of plants, but [...]

Ugh. What a horrible experience this shed has been for us. The pieces of the shed are still sitting on the ground outside and every time I go out there I look at it and feel like crying. I’ve paid $9,500 for a shed that I’m not getting an ounce of benefit from – in fact, [...]

Well, a month later and I am still without a shed. Hopefully next Tuesday the installers will come and start putting it up. Apparently they’ve been really busy. Maybe by Friday a huge shed might be standing in our backyard waiting to be filled with stuff.
What’s been happening the last 4 weeks? Well, after we [...]

Ding dong! The witch is dead!

With a lot of help from our neighbour (he owns a very powerful chainsaw), we spent 3 big days over the Easter long weekend working on demolishing the shed and it’s now in pieces in a big pile waiting to be cut into firewood for burning in our heater this winter. [...]

There’s been a bit happening lately.
Tim is back working with Australia Post here in Tasmania. After arriving in Tasmania, he was told that he would have little chance of working with them here because they have no turnover of staff. But last month there was an ad, he applied and got the job. It will [...]

Today I got an email from Amy Butler personally which was in reply to an email that I sent replying to an email that she sent (follow the saga here). It doesn’t look like she’s going to change her mind about continuing the relationship with my business so I don’t know what to do. With [...]

I’m so upset this morning. Last week I had an email from Amy Butler (pattern maker and fabric designer, read more here), with some bad news for me. My company has been ordering patterns from her company for over 3 years and in the email she says she will no longer accept orders direct from [...]

The event was held at the Sofitel on Phillip Street here in Sydney on the 20th of the November. Tim came with me, he kept referring to it as a ’sympathy date’ but I think he was reasonably interested. Well anyway, as I mentioned in my previous post, he has been living and breathing (and [...]

Every day (or sometimes night) I make a to do list. Well, actually, I add to my to do list. I rarely take anything off the to do list – mainly because one thing is dependant on another being done, and then the next thing only needs to be done if the other thing was [...]

The show went reasonably well, but perhaps not as well as it should have.
Let’s start with the bad things:
I hadn’t expected the first day to be so busy and despite all the months of preparation beforehand, I was ill-prepared. I had patterns that still hadn’t been packaged for hanging on the display unit, I had [...]