Are You Ready for NYE 2008?

For details of Sydney's New Year's Eve 2008 Fireworks, click on:

http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/nye/

You can also get your Transport Guide NYE 08 at any train stations.

May we all have a safe, fun and fabulous New Year's Eve!!!

Fab Holiday Finds: Red Hot Accents

Red is the dominant color for accents inside the home nowadays. Not only because of the season but because I love red. And as far as the Husband is concerned, it is the only color for the home that we never argue about. Believe me, it's not easy deciding colors for the home when you have an artist for a husband.

Since it's Christmas time, our dining table looked like this on Christmas day:

The Husband and I conceptualized the centerpiece for the dining table. We decided that our Christmas colors would be red and silver. I initially bought the red christmas placemats (cost was AUD$5.00 each) around October.

For the centerpiece, it was made up of the following: red and silver square platter (AUD$20.00), red and silver balls (approximately AUD$2.00 each), silver candle (AUD5.00), silver candle holder (AUD$5.00), tall red candle (AUD$2.00) and red star-shaped trimmings (AUD$5.00).

Other red accents we found for the home:

Red throw pillows for our grey sofa. We found these during the year-end clearance sale, from AUD$40.00 it was reduced to AUD$25.00/each.

A red bean bag. This wasn't on sale but the beans for the bean bag was. The bean bag was about AUD$20.00, while the beans were AUD$11.00 per 500grams. Our bean bag contains 1,000 grams of beans.

This entry is for The Filipino Mom Blog's last week of Fab Holiday Finds.

Post-Housewarming Photos

Housewarming photos taken by Richard (thanks!).

In our colorful camping chairs and the electric fan in between! At sa photo na ito, parang napakaraming stripes :)

With the excited parents-to-be, Rich and Rache :)

Krispy Kreme Belat!

Re-upholstering of Dining Chairs

We finally found the time to re-upholster our dining chairs.

Our dining table and chairs were hand-me-downs from my relatives and they advised us to spray paint and change the upholstery of the chairs so it would look like new again.

And so we bought gold spray paint, black fabric and a tacker.

From blue we changed the chairs to black because we wanted something neutral to go with red (which has become the dominant color in the house).

Our re-upholstered black dining chairs

Since the Husband did most of the work re-upholstering our dining chairs, I prepared a special afternoon snack for him--Mais Con Yelo! (sweet corn with ice and milk)

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