Moving day

Even after all the mini moving trips I did so far, a box today a chair tomorrow, I still had many big things I had to move, furniture , craft supplies..etc.
So we called the moving car to take those to their new place, and I made sure no one can mistake my stuff with anyone else stuff..


Hint.. look for pink lol

And In the new house, it all went to my poor neglected room, it looked like this..


I have a lot of work to do to make this room look good for both sleeping and crafting.. :P
Few days ago my friend's daughter stayed over for two nights, the girls went crazy playing singing and dancing all day mashalla, it was so nice seeing them happily playing together, one of the things they did was "building a house" inside their room, I helped a lot but they really worked hard trying to do it right.. adorable mashalla :)


Anyways , I have some cleaning and laundry work, and some boxes to empty. and no I still have a lot in the old house , but I am keeping those there for now to keep having things to do in the coming days lol.
Have a nice weekend.

A visit from the tooth fairy

Finally , after many months of sadness and wondering why is it that everyone else are losing their teeth and she is not, my little one has lost her first tooth.


We were very excited, after all the tooth fairy will be visiting soon, so under the pillow we put the tooth and the next day we found 10 ryals from the tooth fairy in exchange for that precious little white thing.. sigh my kid is growing up :( mashalla

So we are moving more and more into the new place, tonight will be out first attempt at spending the night here, hopefully all will go well and we won't have to sing that " brown paper packages tied up with strings " song..lol
but the kiddo have a place to sleep now ;)


I sewed my curtains, they turned up -as usual - longer or shorter than it supposed to be, but I will do something to fix the problem I always do lol




Plus we finally have some food in the house, we went grocery shopping for some stuff that won't need cooking since our oven isn't working yet, I need to get a plug that will make it possible to plug it to the wall.

And I managed to hang my medicine cabinet in the bathroom, it's been a long time since my last use for the drill machine, and I did a few wrong and stupid things, but eventually it all came back to me and now I have a mirror in the house ..:S yikes lol


And today I also did a new thing, finally got a massage after years of my friend telling me how great it is, and yes it was very relaxing, my body is so tense I think I will be needing a few sessions for me to really relax.

Anyways, that's all the news for now, we are hoping to welcome my friend's daughter to spend the night with the kiddo, she is nagging so hard I wish she will come fast :P
Have a nice day..

Join us for lunch

Now we have a place to eat on ;)
I just assembled the dining table, it's a nice small table, with folding sides so it can fit 2 or 4 or just look like a console table with 6 small drawers.


I put it on the side and pushed the sofas all the way to the back, it made the room look very big and empty, but I still have a few things to get from my old place so we'll see if things will stay like this.


I also added this fake tree which I love so much , we bought it maybe 10 years ago in Jeddah and claimed it as mine for some time now lol I love it there near the small window and the tv .


The princess's room is shaping up too, she asked for the beaded door curtain, and had her name on her door, still a lot of things to do there but we are on our way.


My room is still almost untouched, since most of my stuff needs to be moved from my old room, but I bought a new desk, a bigger one with lot's of drawers for my scrapbooking and sewing supplies, plus a new bed which was delivered this morning, the kiddo is sleeping there now lol.

So things r going well 7amdilla. By the time school is over , so will the big work on our new place will be inshalla.

New things for me :D

Playing this house game is very interesting both for me and my little princess , we keep adding more stuff here and there almost daily, some new stuff we buy and others we move from our old place.

One of my best buys till now is my new television, it's not fancy and not the size i was dreaming of ( over 50 :P )| but still I like it so much, mainly because I bought it on my own without waiting for someone to give me their opinion, not that I hate others opinions, but doing things on your own is very different than what I was used to..


So my T.V is 42 inches plasma, I chose it because the price was right for me and the size is not so big not so small, actually it's more of the biggish category, but I am being greedy lol
I had to assemble the tv table fast so I can see how would the tv look in my room, I had to do it twice since I did something wrong from the very start :S I was having a bad cold while doing so :P

The result?....


We love it mashalla, it's so nice with the whole area , the house is starting to show it's beauty, I can't ask for a better place to live in 7amdilla :D

I still have a lot to share, but my camera is in one house and the laptop is in the other lol I am still very torn in two . soon inshalla.

On a sad note, my childhood friend has traveled suddenly to Canada to join her husband, we knew she was going soon but we didn't know it would be this soon, it was sad, I will still see her online and inshalla in a month when she will be coming to attend her sister's wedding but still, out other friend went before her to london and now I am friendless in this city lol. well not that much :P
so the other day I went to have breakfast with my mom and her friends, and the kiddo played with my childhood friend's daughter, who along with her other 3 brothers and sisters stayed here till the wedding. she was a bit sad , who can blame her, but they enjoyed each other like they always do. and the place was great too mashalla.





Hope you have a wonderful day , big kiss from both of us lol

yet another update

Ok so I am really finding it hard to come up with a smart title for my posts lol.
So I managed to add some furniture in my new place, mainly in the kiddo's room because I really want to finish it up first thing, she is really excited about her new room, which will be a more grown up than all her previous ones. All 4 of them..! :P


Anyways I think I found an arrangement that I like so far for the living room, I put the little one's television there till I get a new bigger one inshalla, but it stayed there only for a day before she demanded to have it back in her room, huh who needs it , it's small and only show DVD :P




We also attended the yearly school show ( I can't seem to remember the right phrase :S ) and our little precious princess had a part in it, she looked so professional mashalla while singing and it made me so proud of her, and although it wasn't her graduation like last year I still cried so hard for the graduation of sixth graders.. God what am I gonna do when she will be there?? she is growing fast.. sigh




And the newest in my updates would be the sad and frustrating news that they are working right infront of our building and really blocked the way in or out of it specialy if I had an idea of moving my old furniture or ordering new ones, so all that will have to wait till they are done, which can take up to weeks in this part of earth..! Well what can I do, but I am working on my old stuff packaging it all so that I can move in right when they are done inshalla.

Somewhere to sit

While waiting for more workers to do more work..lol
Yes it's true I am bringing in workers to do stuff I usually do myself. This time I want to only concentrate on the fun stuff like decorating, and not on tiring stuff like drilling holes for the curtain rods..

Anyways back to my seating system, I finally got me a sofa, yaaaay :D
After a long time and many visits to Ikea I changed my previous plans of a sectional sofa in white - since white seems to be out of order and not on demand- and I got me a three seat sofa with one long seat. sorry I have NO idea what it is called lol

I also got me a one seat chair and I already have another long legged ( I know it is definitely not called that :P ) one at home which needs to be moved.

And my living room look like this right now..


Or this...


I changed the arrangement a lot I can't find a suitable one, not until I get the rest of the stuff in I think.

Today they hung the curtain rods and I need to saw the curtains now.
I also cleaned and accessorized the bathroom a bit, in pink..


But I am thinking of making some changes and use another color.. I will see.

Last Friday we went to my cousin's house, and all the kids were busy playing with some colorful balls, except for my little one who was busy doing some sort of crafting. lol like mommy ;)

First piece of furniture..

This is the first piece of furniture I put in the house..



This area used to have a sink and tiles all over it, I don't like sinks outside of the bathroom so I removed everything, but as a result I got an empty space with some of the old plumbing thingies still showing. So I got this shoe cabinet to hide that and to use the space for shoe storage, clever, right?lol

Yesterday I went to the new place with the kiddo and spent the whole afternoon there, very nice time we had vacuuming and assembling the Ikea cabinet, while the little one watched totally spies on youtube, ten played Quran online, I got an amazing speed for my internet there mashalla..!

This is where I did some facebooking and chatting in between ;)



And I even managed to send the kid to her room-which is empty like everywhere else lol- just because :P



But she liked it, till she fell asleep on the carpet and woke up an our later crying from her ear pain, turns out she has ear infection and we can't go to Jeddah this weekend like we were supposed to to attend my other friend's engagement party.. what a shame.
But she is doing much better 7amdilla and that is what's important.

Sneak peak

My flooring is still not all done, but now I know why.. turns out the last day of rain we had had soaked up my electric box and they had to stop electricity to fix it. That's why my poor floor workers had to stop. Wen I checked the house the job was nearly done, they are very neat mashalla cutting everything and mounting it on the right wall then gluing it all at the same time.

Anyways they will work on it today inshalla so hopefully it will be done by tonight.

I also bought the living room curtain fabric. I didn't get many choices but I kind of like the one I got. At least till I find a better one that I love more.
Here is a sneak peak of the whole look



Next stop would probably be living room sofas.. Life can't get any sweeter mashalla. I thank god for that.

Flooring, flooring, flooring..!

What can I tell you about them.. I love laminate wooden floors. I had a wish come true when I ordered mine a century ago..!( which is a lot like the one in the picture above) and when the workers first started to work on my place I was very excited.. But that was ages ago... And now...



No this isn't my room but mine is almost in the same stage of finished.. not nearly there..!
Well as you can tell I am having trouble with workers working on my place on their free time from their original job. which means coming at odd hours and giving you appointments with daaays in between.



Ok so I might be exaggerating a bit, since they only worked last Tuesday and today and they will supposedly-hopefully-be done on next Tuesday. But still...!

Anyways the house looks nice mashalla even if it is minus the baseboard and room borders. And I am thankful for that.
Who knew it was that much work to have your dream place lol

Flowers in our garden..

But not in a shower curtain..!
I have been looking for a floral shower curtain everywhere in khobar. I can't seem to find what I am thinking of. And even looking for a curtain for my living room isn't a very easy thing.

Two days ago my close childhood friend gave birth to the most amazing little baby boy mashalla, he is so cute and tiny and blond ! I can't seem to have enough of him mashalla. congrats my dear.. We love you and the new baby :)



I attempted to do a baby sock bouquet which I saw online, but the result was not very impressive lol



Right now the workers are installing the laminate wooden floors in my new place. I am very nervous waiting to see the end result right here, but I have to just pray for the best lol.

Ok so back o our garden flowers, I took some pictures and I liked them so thought of sharing ..







Have a good day.
And I really hope we don't get the storm they are saying might hit us.. :S