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Hello dear friends! I can not believe that today is the first day of autumn already!! Well, over here it is autumn and officially my favourite season... It is a balmy beautiful evening in Cape Town and a cascading starry sky hangs above us! Totally gorgeous. As I was on my way home from a service for the World Wide Day of Prayer for Women I was wondering what I am going to blog about and then I checked into my blog and my eye fell on this beautiful conservatory...and voila! I was on a mission.... The conservatory above is my favourite of all time! It is also from one of my favourite houses ever... Henk and Monika Smith's amazing home, of which I can never get enough! So, then I found a few more that grabbed my fancy... This image is quite amazing... you can quickly bend down and retrieve your jaw from the ground! It's like a dream, isn't it? I could not find the correct photo credit and it just said Winter Palace . Does anyone know? Anyway, I could do a great deal of daydream believing in there!!! It's like a movie set for a romantic scene and ..well...let your imagination go... a proposal perhaps? These beauties are at Schonbrunn Palace Vienna. Love the shape and can you just imagine the treasures they hold? Everything we need is here... beautiful shapes, a chandy, an elegant bench, a water feature and one of my favourite tree ferns...perfect! Is it just me or does a conservatory hold a sense of mystique for you as well? Just the place to while away a lazy Sunday.... The architectural detail on conservatories are always beguling. I think its time to take a look at some daybeds for another post. I bet you all have a favourite lurking in your wish list closet! Enchanting... On Monday I will introduce another wonderful blog in my Blog it Forward Series and on Tuesday is our monthly international Bloggers post for "By Invitation Only" and this time I will be taking you on a tour of my wonderful city of Cape Town! Have a fab Friday Live well Veronica xxx Images ~ Pinteres and House and Leisure
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I love organization. And normally, I somewhat like unpacking. This round of unpacking however was not the most fun experience of my life... We had been working on getting everything together for packing and moving for a couple of weeks. THEN, as soon as we had everything in our new house, we HAD to start unpacking. We didn't get a break or any down time. Going into the whole moving experience, I figured this would happen so I planned for it ahead of time. Here are some techniques that helped the process be less painful: Because we had access to our new house, we were able to move stuff from our old place BEFORE moving day. In a normal situation where we weren't on time crunch, my first inclination that this would be more trouble than its worth. I mean, why not wait to move everything while you have more people to help on moving day. BUT, since we were working against the clock, we pre-moved several car loads of small boxes on the days leading up to the moving day. Any box that would fit in our cars (that was already packed) was moved ahead of time. Once these boxes arrived at our new house, we simply looked at the label and placed them in a pre-determined pile in each room. This created pathways for the "big stuff" to come in on moving day without creating more work. Because the kitchen doesn't have much furniture in it, we completely unpacked our kitchen stuff before moving day. All of our dishes, cleaning supplies, appliances, and dry food was in the cabinets and out of the way! When you empty a box, put the box in a pile of empty boxes in one spot of your house. This will clear some floor space and not only give you more room to walk and work, but also create momentum. When the pile starts to get unruly, break them down all at once. This is the most efficient method to save time with boxes. During moving day, there may be some who cannot carry the large furniture. Examples would be myself and my mom. These people can start unpacking! If you have packed efficiently (read this post), it should be fairly easy to unpack and know what needs to go where! My mom and I unpacked several items while the men were still busy loading in the rest of the furniture. The key to unpacking, is packing! You should pack things up together how you want them to be unpacked. Click here to learn how to pack like a champ! If you are on a timeline, of course, unpack as much as you can. As the time starts dwindling, grab a large box from you empty box pile and just start filling it up with anything left over. If people know you have just moved, they are going to be amazed with all that you have done, NOT what you didn't do. Give yourself some grace; its ok if every single thing is not put away! Like I said, this is what we did, and I truly do believe that these techniques made the process less stressful. However, they say that moving is one of the most stressful times in your life, and I'm not going to pretend that there was not any bossiness from me or frustration from Nathan. We are both glad that time has passed. ;) << Previous in the Move 'em Out series - Next in the Move 'em Out series >> Other Great Moving Resources:
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