Ice and Snow

In yesterday's post I mentioned that we had our first snowfall of the season and I was glad that it didn't stick around, well after having to drive to pick the girls up from school yesterday afternoon on roads covered in black ice I wish the snow had stuck. I am definitely not cut out for driving in those conditions, the only saving grace was that everybody else on the road was only doing between 30-40kmh just like me. We don't get snow where I'm from in Australia so even though I have been driving for more than 20 years my expertise does not extend to black ice, give me torrential rain, thunderstorms or 40 degree heat and I'm good but yesterday was certainly a first and not something I want to do again anytime soon.

Here are a few pictures of what we woke up to this morning.

Has anyone out there had fun driving in the snow?

Homesense

Hi all I hope you are having a great week, we have had our first snowfall of the season and although it was nice to wake up to everything white yesterday morning I'm glad it didn't stick around. You see I need new tyres on my car and I can't get them put on until Friday as apparently my tire size is not one of the regular ones and the new tires had to be ordered in. Ok I know this post is suppose to be about Homesense not my new tires so here it goes, for those of you who follow my blog you know that I love Homesense it's my favourite store, I love going and wandering around checking out all of there beautiful stuff. Since we moved at the beginning of October I haven't been to Homesense as they do not have a store in town and the closest one is an hour and a half away, well at the weekend we made the trip. I was so excited, we walked in the door to be greeted with lots of things that sparkled and glittered I was in heaven. Mr ASL says I'm like a Magpie, drawn to anything shiny. My youngest daughter also has the Homesense bug and we wandered around oohing and arring, mean while eldest daughter and Mr ASL had wandered off. When I found him I dragged him back to show him all the things that I loved to be told "I don't like it, where are you going to put that and it's ok" My heart sank......

In the end this is what I walked out of the store with:

I have a thing for Owls at the moment

I love the detail on the handle

The Architectural Prints in the picture where a thrift store find at $1.49 for the set.

The moral of this story is, next time I go to Homesense I'll leave Mr ASL at home.

Have a great day.

Thrift Store Finds

I know I haven't posted anything in a while but how many of you out there have all the ideas floating around in your head but you sit down to write about them ....nothing! I believe it's called writers block but I am by no means a writer so I am going to call it blogger block.

I thought I would share with you today one of my favourite thrift store finds. I've found this wonderful little second hand store that's  a 30 minute driver from where we live. They are reasonably prices and have some unusual pieces. I went for a snoop last Friday and was overjoyed to find these:

As soon as I saw them I knew they where coming home with me, I picked up all three for $25.  I am now on the hunt for nice new frames for them. Once finished they will be going in the office.

What is your favourite thrift store find?

Have a great weekend.