I’ve been in a Pinning frenzy…
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A total binge of pins!
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I feel bloated, full and absolutely content.
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For a while anyway ;)
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Have you visited my Boards? I’d love to visit yours, feel welcome to put a link in the comments :)
xx Romana
I would so love to pop into the Open House dreamt, instigated and co-ordinated by The Design Files extraordinaire!
Visit The Design Files for all images, taken by John Deer.
I’m just adoring the use of colour and shapes…
Perfect to celebrate the first day of Summer!
I just realised it is another faux space I would happily move in to!
xx Romana
is a classic and timeless. Not something I was drawn to a few years ago, but now my eyes are pulled to many black and white combinations…
via Amber Lewis Design
Francesca Ferrera
Liz Cann Studio
Miranda Kerr
Our newest member of the family..Clancy the rescue dog :)
So tell me, do you like black and white combo’s too?
xx Romana
Not real homes, but I’d live here anyway…
Furbish/I Suwanee
Black & Spiro
What about you? Spotted any “faux” spaces in which you would happily reside?
And this is my welcome back to blogging!
After some months being ridiculously busy juggling study, work, family life…I am excited to be back blogging and will start sharing some of my latest projects in the coming weeks. Thanks to everyone who persevered checking in on the blog whilst not much was happening!!
xx Romana
I started this blog to share the “new traditions” that I wanted to create for my daughters and family after we moved from Adelaide to the tiny country town where my husband was raised. Up to this point I have not shared as much as I have wanted to. Broken cameras made it hard to share house and craft projects, using all my downloads reading other blogs made it hard to post news, and sometimes things are just that bit too personal for me to share. One of those things is my youngest daughter who I call “Miss T” (original right?). I would like to share a few things about my little ray of sunshine.
Miss T was 2 years old when we got a diagnosis of Band Heterotopia. What’s that? I hear you call. Yeah well, we are still figuring out what that means for us. Basically it is a neuronal migration defect, causing the brain to grow with an area of smoothness, rather than all rigdy-like. So far for Miss T this has manifested in Global Developmental Delay. Probably will be upgraded to Intellectual Disability when she is older. I wish my upgrades only occurred at the Qantas desk.
I have found it difficult to share much about Miss T’s struggles because it is just damn hard to put into words. You either sound like wonder-mum doing everything on Earth to help your child overcome these unfair obstacles, or you come across as a whinger. And Lord knows (or my husband more accurately), I am a whinger enough. I don’t need another forum to vent to.
Or do I?
Sometimes, I just need to blurt out those bits of parenting that were never on my mummy-wearing-an-apron-baking-cupcakes-in-the-sunshine radar.
Until they were.
So, bear with me while I spill the beans. Ok?
Miss T had a(nother) Speech Assessment yesterday. I think this is her 4th. An excruciating 2 hour long session where I did my best to get her to sit and answer question, play along, point to pictures, play with toys, talk to a complete stranger. I was in the room because in the past Miss T has just shutdown. Put her little fingers over her big blue eyes and just said “No”. Where she gave the therapist her biggest, cheekiest, dimpled smile and refused to co-operate. This time, they asked me to stay in the room. Initially I sat next to Miss T. Trying my darndest not to lead her, give clues, give away the correct answers.
Then, Miss T got tired.
You know, after about 10 minutes.
Then she had to sit on my lap. I tried not to hug her, to not nod my head at the correct answer, not to breathe in at the wrong answers. After one hour she was over it. So was I. We could hear the school kids running around having recess, our bums were numb and Miss T was struggling to listen to the questions, let alone attempt to answer them. Somehow, we got through the assessment, although the last third was definitely not the best representation of Miss T’s abilities. But do I really want the “best” anyway? On her best moment/hour/day, a stranger may be hard pressed to pick Miss T from amongst her peers as having Special Needs. But she does. And she surely needs extra assistance at school. I just hope the exhausted little sunbeam will forgive me today for making her sit through such a stressful and tiring test.
xx Romana
Yeah, ok, lame heading. For some reason I have SaltNPepper stuck in my head…be afraid!
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Anyway, I joined Pinterest a while back but then had trouble pinning. Oh the drama. All seems to be working now, so drop me a line if you pin, what you pin, post a link. Sharing is caring right?
After a terrible overcast week last week, I was not able to get pics of Miss I’s mini-room-redo. But, this week looks gorgeous, so hopefully in the next day or so! Pinky swear!
xx Romana
This is a quick shout-out for my sister who has finally started a blog of her own!!
We are very close sisters and I would love it if you would pop over and give her some encouragement on her new undertaking (we all know how daunting it is to start your own blog!!). She is WAAYYY more stylish than myself and I can’t wait to see her find her feet with the blogging caper!
To welcome my sister, here are a few images that make me think of her:
via Full House
Atlanta Homes
Joi’s via Apartment Therapy
xx Romana
