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Please follow my blog, now at www.mikaeladanvers.comLots of pretty things to look at and contribute/win!

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Or at least within 300 kilometres of here...On the weekend we drove up to Sydney after John's game of soccer and stayed with a friend in their Bondi apartment (thanks Milly!). Sunday morning, we woke up to this view:The temperature was predicted to be 29 degrees celcius that day, how badly do you think I wanted to stay there, walk down to the beach and lie in the sun for hours (Covered in

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It was rainy and blah when I woke up, and that's how I felt all day, rainy and blah. It seems to be just at that exact point in the year where it is basically spring, you can smell it on the air, the sun shines most days, and it's not dark by the time you get home from work... it's glorious, actually, when you realise the blossoms are starting to come out and everything smells fresh... And then

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Dinner: Beef Pad SiewMade from the recipe found on Taste.com.au (needed a bit more flavour, I added some hot chili sauce that we had in the fridge)Breakfast: French ToastEggs, milk & cinnamon in a bowl, soak bread in mixture, cook in lots of butter to cook bread through then give it a blast of high heat to make crispy and golden on the outsideYUMMOThere will be more delicious (hopefully!)

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If you don't already know me, then you also probably don't know what I do, in life. You know, to earn a buck. I'm a teacher that looks like a student. I'm halfway through my second year of teaching college (in Canberra, Australia, that's year 11 & 12. 16-18 year olds). I look about 17. I'm 24. Other teachers come into the classroom and look around for a good minute until they realise that

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My husband and I got married on Friday the 13th of March, 2009. Rain threatened, but I had faith it would hold off and we were rewarded with the most gorgeous of days...The following is what I wrote on weddingbycolor.com the day before, day of, and day after (with photos added for your viewing pleasure...)DAY BEFOREDisaster strikes? No bridesmaid dresses 1 day to go So the dress guy meets me

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The very first thing I did when we moved in was to paint over the kitchen cupboard doors and change all the handles. The kitchen was a beautiful peachy pink and dusky blue colour scheme, with brown and gold marbled handles. Very chic. I used white knight laminate paint to change the colour of all the doors and drawers, and bought the new silver handles from Ikea. I did all this the week we moved

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So we've been in our house for almost a whole year, 11 months now... and we did end up settling, eventually! Once that was all finally sorted out I switched to full wedding planning mode and continued to be that way until the wedding in March. After the wedding and honeymoon I switched again to garden and landscaping mode, and then back to teaching/designing modes... none of which allowed any

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Gosh it's been a hectic mess.Settlement was delayed because ANZ bank stuffed up the application, but luckily after lots of going back and forth with our solicitors and theirs, the owners were willing to grant us tenancy before settlement, as they had already moved out.We planned to move on the friday, so John was on his way in his car with his dad to pick up the removalist truck, when some woman

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The time is DRAGGGGGING... I assume settlement will be the 28th (haven't heard anything yet), and John doesn't have to go to Melbourne that week now so we're planning to move Friday the 29th. Booked the truck, bought the fridge, we're all set. It seems to be taking FOREVER!

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Went to the bank yesterday to sign all the papers and give ID, had hassles with JA's name not being spelt correctly on half of his documents (passport, citizenship paper etc) so will have to take his American Passport in this arvo. Mum and Dad also have to take all their ID in also... But we're looking at the 28th for settlement, yay! =)Unfortunately JA is away for work the whole week 25-29th,

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We had exchange on Tuesday arvo (Thursday now), so we're locked in! Settlement will now be August 28th or before, we're hoping for about a week before so we can move the main stuff the weekend of 23/24 August and have a week overlapping in rent to get the carpets cleaned and tidy the place up etc.We still have to fill in more forms, for the first home owners grant and some other solicitor stuff,

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So we have now been formally approved for our loan, woohoo! Just waiting on the bank/solicitor/mortgage broker to finish dealing with our thousands of forms we had to fill in, then we can exchange contracts hopefully early next week. Settlement should be about 4 weeks after that.I am now officially collecting boxes!=D

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Waiting to hear about finance, if all goes well I will be posting here about our new house, the move in, and all renovations.Wish us luck!

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